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Definition of Grandsons
1. grandson [n] - See also: grandson
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandsons
Literary usage of Grandsons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"It may be illustrated by the following example : A. dies seised of land, and
leaves B., a son, living, and D. and E., two grandsons, of C., ..."
2. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"this he declined, offering the gift of 10000i., and on its being accepted,
congratulated himself on having saved 30000i. Two of his grandsons, although he ..."
3. The Mameluke or Slave dynasty of Egypt 1260-1517 A.D. by William Muir (1896)
"CHAPTER IX , NASIR'S SONS AND grandsons 1341-1382 ADAD 1341. FOR the next forty
years the Sultanate was held by the house of ..."
4. Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, Or the Central and Western Rajpoot by James Tod (1873)
"... grandsons of its last monarch, abondoned the land of their birth, and with
two hundred retainers, the wreck of their vassalage, journeyed westward to ..."
5. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator. In Twelve Books by Quintilian (1892)
"But since Domitian Augustus has vouchsafed me the charge of his sister's grandsons,*
I should not sufficiently feel the honour of his divine judgment.t if I ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"Such was the persecuting spirit of the laws of Theodosius, which were ri-peatedly
enforced by his sons and grandsons, with the loud and unanimous applause ..."
7. Madam How and Lady Why; Or by Charles Kingsley (1885)
"Once upon a time, certainly as long ago as the first man, or perhaps the first
rational being of any kind, was created, Madam How had two grandsons. ..."
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