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Meanings of grandsire in English
Male grandparent.
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Examples for "grandfather"
Examples for "grandfather"
1
The reality star said: I speak to my grandfather nearly every day.
2
That's important for the family simply to know who their grandfather was.
3
My grandfather used to say that sometimes the end justified the means.
4
Even my maternal grandfather disapproved, despite his work for the Soviet state.
5
Her great, great grandfather was also a German pork butcher in Sunderland.
1
And the grandpa is like a picture of the old French people.
2
The boss man over grandpa and grandma in Virginia was John Glover.
3
We went to her real grandpa's grave to do the ceremony scene.
4
It was quite different from being on grandpa's farm in the country.
5
And grandpa says you were the best little girl he ever saw.
1
In other words, drive like the gramps you are for once.
2
Can you imagine ole jailbird gramps telling stories at Christmas dinner?
3
Just something my gramps used to say.
4
But how was gramps here to know?
5
His gramps had stolen it.
1
Your grampa had that, too, but back then we called it heartburn.
2
Kinda puts me in mind of your grampa's little ice shanty.
3
I'm not exactly a beggar, grampa, he asserted with some spirit.
4
Your grampa always wanted to drive one a them Zambonis.
5
Stepped in, pitched grampa down the stairs, stepped out again.
1
I had all my grand-father's melody as well as poetry by rote.
2
Valhika, therefore, was the grand-father-in-law of the lady mentioned by Gandhari.
3
I mean my grand-father and my uncle. Mr. Cuthbert shook his head slowly.
4
That little piece of information concerning her English grand-father was efficacious.
5
My grand-father was a younger brother, and a native of Saxony.
Usage of grandsire in English
1
O grandsire, do thou speak in detail on the duties of kings.
2
Prince Daeron, the gentlest of her children, wept for his grandsire's passing.
3
O grandsire, I desire to hear this, expounded to me in detail.
4
Tell me, O grandsire, what is the end that these attain to.
5
What, however, O grandsire, is the best or foremost of all gifts.
6
I desire, O grandsire, to hear thee discourse truly on this topic.
7
But heaven, O grandsire, is attained to by persons that are dead.
8
Harold's grandsire, Siegfried the Teuton, had been a man of cruel violence.
9
I ask thee, O grandsire, whose wife does the girl actually become?
10
Ah, my great-grandsire, if spirits have eyes, yours will see something presently.
11
I have a doubt, do thou explain it to me, O grandsire!
12
The Persians, subdued by the grandsire of Astyages, seized the occasion to revolt.
13
He heard too many people laughing at your grandsire. She frowned.
14
Tell me, O grandsire, what however are the settled conclusions in this matter.
15
Tell me now, O grandsire, what are the principal duties of a kingdom.
16
Thy grandsire sent his little treasure into Arabia and bought lands with it.
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