Meanings of grandame in inglês

What would his grandame, if she were alive, say to this pageant?

Mind you the golden whistle that the grandame keepeth?

Her grandame's own precious, royal, queenly little darling!

Thee ought to give thy grandame a chance to eat her bite-don'tthee be a selfish little dear.

Of a pleased grandame tottering up and down;

They disclaim all participation in the introduction of it, and cast it all on the shoulders of 'old grandame Great Britain.'

To the promenade, to church, or market, the good old grandame no longer used her crutch, but leaned on her granddaughter.

It was a chosen resort of the royal children, to whom the noble, kind, grandame was all that gracious age can be.

Her daughter, a blooming matron, was there, happy, wealthy, good; yet not apparently a whit more reconciled to life than the aged grandame.

Old Mrs. Mason, a garrulous, good-hearted grandame, was their only near neighbor, and her visits always left his mother worse rather than better.

A solitary ray slanting through the window, flitted over the trembling verdure, and smiled on the gloomy wall, like a child on its grandame's knee.

The last two words were a recollection of his own poem "The Grandame"-

In his poem "The Grandame" (see Vol.

"'Twill be time enough when I have the years o' my grandame, I guess, to make me crabbed and gloomsome."

What would his grandame, if she were alive, say to this pageant?

Mind you the golden whistle that the grandame keepeth?