grandpapas

For at that rate, he said, the Baltas would be quite right in thinking it a fine thing to eat their grandpapas, because they thought it an ugly thing to put them underground.

The Water Babies 2007

They will come and stand by my chair, and say, ‘Grandpapa, can you give me a bit of string?’ and once Henry asked me for a knife, but I told him knives were only made for grandpapas.

Emma 2004

` Grandpapa, can you give me a bit of string? 'and once Henry asked me for a knife, but I told him knives were only made for grandpapas.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

Children played, young girls wrote letters to their lovers; mothers busily worked sewing-machines, but saw everything that passed on the water; fathers read newspapers, and white-haired old grandpapas nodded over long-stemmed pipes.

The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901

I should like you to understand that it was not just an ordinary tea, but a special one; for it was grandpapa's birthday, and, as perhaps you know, grandpapas don't often have birthday parties, so it was a great occasion.

The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

The usual visiting going on in the village; all gallant spirits are in motion, from very young gentlemen of five or six, to their grandpapas, wishing "Happy New Year" to the ladies.

Rural Hours 1887

"But, grandpapa, _darling_, that grandpapa was seventy-three grandpapas back!"

Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886

"Long after they have no more nurses or fathers and mothers -- or grandpapas and grandmammas," with a little smile, which somehow made the corners of

Us An Old Fashioned Story Mrs. Molesworth 1880

Men and women know these things, because their grandpapas and grandmammas have told them so.

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

Her grandpapa Forey pretended to grumble at bridal presents being expected from grandpapas.

Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868