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  • It had been called the Hide, so family legend went, by his greatuncle, Giles Itailton - a large room with an unusually big desk and a strange built-in filing cabinet.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • Morison of M.I.T., historian, author, authority on Theodore Roosevelt, guided me in my research into the career of his greatuncle, George Shattuck Morison, and read and commented on portions of the manuscript.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Morison of M.I.T., historian, author, authority on Theodore Roosevelt, guided me in my research into the career of his greatuncle, George Shattuck Morison, and read and commented on portions of the manuscript.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • An old man52 who had entertained many famous people in his eighteenth-century house, where battlement and tower showed the influence of Horace Walpole,53 had but lately, after losing all his money, drowned himself, first taking off his rings and chain and watch as became a collector of many beautiful things; and once, to remind us of more passionate life, a gunboat put into Rosses, commanded by the illegitimate son54 of some greatuncle or other.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • An old man52 who had entertained many famous people in his eighteenth-century house, where battlement and tower showed the influence of Horace Walpole,53 had but lately, after losing all his money, drowned himself, first taking off his rings and chain and watch as became a collector of many beautiful things; and once, to remind us of more passionate life, a gunboat put into Rosses, commanded by the illegitimate son54 of some greatuncle or other.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • An old man52 who had entertained many famous people in his eighteenth-century house, where battlement and tower showed the influence of Horace Walpole,53 had but lately, after losing all his money, drowned himself, first taking off his rings and chain and watch as became a collector of many beautiful things; and once, to remind us of more passionate life, a gunboat put into Rosses, commanded by the illegitimate son54 of some greatuncle or other.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • An old man52 who had entertained many famous people in his eighteenth-century house, where battlement and tower showed the influence of Horace Walpole,53 had but lately, after losing all his money, drowned himself, first taking off his rings and chain and watch as became a collector of many beautiful things; and once, to remind us of more passionate life, a gunboat put into Rosses, commanded by the illegitimate son54 of some greatuncle or other.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He married ma's greatuncle Myron's widow, but I don't know what relation that makes him t 'us.

    The Fotygraft Album Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven Frank Wing

  • Sarah6754, my cousin's sister's husband's brother's mom's father's greatuncle said QUIT TROLLING YOUR STUPID ADVERTISEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • Me great, great great, greatuncle was killed in a similar incident near there during the great westward migration a great many years ago.

    The Seattle Times 2010

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