"Great-grandchild" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... till they have done here," said a great-grandchild of the old man, running up from his amusement of hooting to the owls in the church tower. "They'll soon have done with these two, and then grandfather and I shall go home. ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau
... the gardens of Lucullus that Mark Antony's great-grandchild felt the tribune's sword in her throat, and in the neat drives and walks of the Pincio, where pretty women in smart carriages laugh over today's gossip and tomorrow's fashion, and the immaculate dandy idles away an hour and a cigarette, the memory ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
... impressed, as well it might be. St. Andrews University, the first to confer the degree upon the great-grandfather, conferred the same degree upon the great-grandchild one hundred and forty-seven years later (and this upon her own merits as Dean of Radcliffe College); sent it across the Atlantic to be bestowed by the hands of its Lord Rector, the first who was not a British subject, but who was born one as Franklin was, and who became an American citizen as ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie |
