She stands-- she sits--she staggers--she falls--she groans--she dies --and there are none of her children or
grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains.
She wished to give her grandchildren a treat on the Sunday.
I always complain and am always dissatisfied, but thank God the grandchildren are all nice and healthy, and we can still live.
Why, you idiot and wife for Barabbas," said Sancho, "what do you mean by trying, without why or wherefore, to keep me from marrying my daughter to one who will give me
grandchildren that will be called 'your lordship'?
In the yards were all the children and
grandchildren of these eleven elders and they were of all sizes, from well-grown hens to tiny chickens just out of the shell.
Some are affected with the mania of which you spoke just now, that of living again in their
grandchildren.
I wish I knew--but it is best for no one to write to me--how Mr and Mrs Plornish prosper in the business which my dear father bought for them, and that old Mr Nandy lives happily with them and his two
grandchildren, and sings all his songs over and over again.
It seemed to Holgrave,--as doubtless it has seemed to the hopeful of every century since the epoch of Adam's
grandchildren,--that in this age, more than ever before, the moss-grown and rotten Past is to be torn down, and lifeless institutions to be thrust out of the way, and their dead corpses buried, and everything to begin anew.
They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their
grandchildren.
I only meant that, after the decided stand Mamma took about its being Ellen's duty to go back to her husband, it seems strange that she should be seized with this sudden whim to see her, when there are half a dozen other
grandchildren that she might have asked for.
Michael,' he says, 'come here and bow down to his feet; and you, young woman, you bow down too; and you,
grandchildren, also bow down before him
Senate Aging Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ranking Member Bob Casey (D-PA) applauded the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committees unanimous passage of the Supporting Grandparents Raising
Grandchildren Act, which would create a federal task force charged with supporting grandparents raising
grandchildren as the opioid epidemic increases their numbers.
