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Definition of Grandmothers
1. grandmother [n] - See also: grandmother
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandmothers
Literary usage of Grandmothers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1895)
"But I have heard many a one say, who has seen much of Siamese life, that this is
the fault of the grandmothers. The grandmother is a very important person ..."
2. Common Sense about Women by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1881)
"THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR Grandmothers. EVERY young woman of the present generation,
so soon as she ventures to have a headache or a set of nerves, is immediately ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine (1882)
"THE Diary of Madame d' Arblay (at that time Fanny Burney) gives us a series of
entertaining pictures of the Georgian epoch, and among our great-grandmothers ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"... his two grandmothers, his four great- grandmothers, and his eight great-grandmothers
mothers ; if all these families have acquired a legal right to bear ..."
5. Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen: in a Series of by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1857)
"... Tina Grandmothers, MY DEAR c****** You will gather from my preceding letter,
some ideas of the household industry aud occupations of country people in ..."
6. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1872)
"OUR GREAT-Grandmothers ; OR, SKETCHES FROM MONTAGU HOUSE. ... and among our
great-grandmothers of those who frequented the literary réunions at Montagu ..."
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