Grandmother

(n.) The mother of one's father or mother.

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• I was told your grandmother Mingott's carriage was seen standing at Mrs. Beaufort's door. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Still, to have kept her grandmother's carriage at a defaulter's door! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• If Ellen had consented to come and live with her grandmother it must surely be because she had recognised the impossibility of giving him up. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Archer was aware that Madame Olenska, who had seated herself at her grandmother's side, was still thoughtfully scrutinising him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• They had a she-wolf for a nurse; I had only a she-wolf for a grandmother. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Facing Huxley with a smiling insolence, he begged to know, _was it through his grandfather or grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey_? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not fit to polish the teeth of her grandmother's cat! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Early in the day, I heard of the arrival of the aged grandmother of one of our servants at the Castle. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The company were, the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grandmother. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The most vivid thing about her was the fact that her grandmother had been a Van Alstyne. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Archer looked at him, and thought he saw in his gay young eyes a gleam of his great-grandmother Mingott's malice. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• And that her grandmother's cat may now have no one to polish its teeth? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• What happiness it must be to her good old grandmother and excellent aunt, when she comes to visit them! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Lovers' Vows were at an end, and Lord and Lady Ravenshaw left to act My Grandmother by themselves. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• What would not your grandmothers have given to be asked to Lady Hester's parties in that now decayed mansion? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Good mothers are married over again at their daughters' weddings: and as for subsequent events, who does not know how ultra-maternal grandmothers are? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Knitting Days of our Grandmothers and Knitting Machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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