grandmammas

You young people should be lucky that you've never met one of those grandmammas before.

fengh Diary Entry fengh 2002

I should be glad to know what our worthy grandmammas would think of the delicacy of the present generation of ladies, could they but see them going about with nothing but an oyster-shell bonnet stuck at the back of their heads!

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

There is little trouble with small children, who make a fuss only, and become refractory, when the parents, grandmammas and aunts set the example.

Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

We all know the beautiful miniatures that grandmammas count as some of their greatest treasures, mementoes of the friends of long ago.

Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

For twenty-five years Mr. Spear has been doing little else but studying Colonial history, and making love to old ladies who own clocks and skillets given them by their great-grandmammas.

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

Mammas and even grandmammas are expected to be present and to participate in the evening's enjoyment.

My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

The veil nothing would have induced me to part with; but the scarf was so old, I felt sure it must have come to my mother from a succession of chocolate or perhaps soap or sardine grandmammas, and I hadn't much sentiment about it.

Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley 1901

"_Now_ if sister makes any objections to our plans, I'll just refer her to the first of the grandmammas who made our hospitality proverbial, and, hardening her hands with the work of the wilderness, was yet the truest gentlewoman of them all."

Cicely and Other Stories Sears Gallagher 1897

Even the two grandmammas, being really grandmammas at heart, softened to it, and dad declared gruffly it had been a fool business altogether, while Polly flung herself sobbing into her godmother's arms.

Killykinick 1888

Colonial history, and making love to old ladies who own clocks and skillets given them by their great-grandmammas.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885