"Grannie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and he had become like a son to her. The jackal gladly promised to attend, and he collected a number of his friends and at evening they went to Anuwa's house and sat down in the courtyard. Then the old woman came out and began to bewail her son: but the jackal said "Stop crying, grannie, you cannot get back the dead: let us get on to the feast." So she said that she would fry some cakes first, as it would take some time before the rice was ready. The jackals approved of this but they asked her to tie them up with a rope first lest they should get to fighting over ...
— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
... be down-hearted," she exclaimed. "My poor grannie always gave me an example of energy and hard work; I've got plenty of pluck, and I will work too. Suppose ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... "But, grannie, yer face is sae lirkit an' thin, Wi' a doun-luikin nose an' an up-luikin chin, An' a mou clumpit up oot o' sicht atween, Like the witherin half o' an ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... reverend grannie say, In lanely glens you like to stray; Or where auld ruined castles grey Nod to the moon, Ye fright the nightly wand'rer's way, ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
... farm boasted a goodly array of horses. These would have made a poor figure at Newmarket, as they were no kin to Godolphin or Eclipse—but in plough or harrow they looked respectable. There was an old mare, and her daughter, and her daughter's daughter—Grannie, and Polly, and Rose by name. There were also another mare and her foal; but our acquaintance was confined to the three generations—or rather to the two—for Grannie was old and stupid; and as the farmer sported a fine ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... a hurry, my good child! I haven't finished yet. I should have thought you could have trusted your grannie by this time. My remark, though no doubt stale, was only one of those preliminary announcements with which a chairman always has to begin—like 'Glad to see so many bright young faces collected here', or 'Gratified to ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil |
