Granddaughter Sentence Examples

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  • Destiny wasn't her only granddaughter, but all of the others were in their teens.

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  • I have a granddaughter who was adopted from northern China.

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  • When buying clothes for your daughter, granddaughter or another girl in your life, it is important to do a little planning in advance.

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  • The only confirmed report is that mom and baby are doing fine and Jessica's father Mark was heard cooing about how beautiful his granddaughter is.

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  • Johnson is the great granddaughter to co-founder of Johnson and Johnson, Robert Wood Johnson I.

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  • She descended from Hollywood royalty as the granddaughter of John Barrymore, but she rose to fame based on her own acting chops.

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  • He said he had a granddaughter who was special and he didn't want her to get stuck doing some sort of manual labor.

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  • Again in 1820 Aurore exchanged the restraint of a convent for freedom, being recalled to Nohant by Mme de Francueil, who had no intention of letting her granddaughter grow up a devote.

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  • In the centre of the modern town rises the castle, built by Roger I.; in the chapel are frescoes representing his granddaughter, Adelasia, who founded the convent of St Lucia in 1157, taking the veil.

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  • By Isolda, granddaughter of Robert de Cardinan, the town was given to Richard, king of the Romans, who in the third year of his reign granted to the burgesses a gild merchant sac and soc, toll, team and infangenethef, freedom from pontage, lastage, &c., throughout Cornwall, and exemption from the jurisdiction of the hundred and county courts, also a yearly fair and a weekly market.

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  • Griffenfeldt married Kitty Nansen, the granddaughter of the great Burgomaster Hans Nansen, who brought him half a million rix-dollars.

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  • A second Tatar raid in 1259, less dangerous, perhaps, but certainly more ruinous, than the first invasion - for the principalities of Little Poland and Sandomir were systematically ravaged for three months - still further but Poland formed but a small portion of his vast domains, and Poland's interests were subordinated to the larger demands of an imperial policy which embraced half Europe within its orbit On the death of Louis there ensued an interregnum of two years marked by fierce civil wars, instigated by duke Ziemovit of Masovia, the northernmost province of Poland, the daughter of Louis the Great and the granddaughter of Wladislaus Lokietek, had an equal right, by inheritance, to the thrones of Hungary and Poland.

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  • His mother, Margaret, granddaughter and heiress of John Holles, duke of Newcastle, brought to her husband Welbeck Abbey and other estates in Nottinghamshire.

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  • As after the death of his first wife Charles had married Catherine de Courtenay, a granddaughter of Baldwin II., the last Latin emperor of Constantinople, he tried to assert his rights to that throne.

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  • On the 19th of June 1823 he married the princess Josephine, daughter of Eugene de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and granddaughter of the empress Josephine.

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  • Alexander, fourth steward, the eldest son of Walter, third steward, inherited by his marriage with Jean, granddaughter of Somerled, the islands of Bute and Arran, and on the 2nd of October 1263 led the Scots against Haakon IV., king of Norway, at Largs.

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  • On Barbara's death three years later without male offspring, Sigismund (in April 1518) gave his hand to Bona Sforza, a kinswoman of the emperor and granddaughter of the king of Aragon, who came to him with a dowry of 200,000 ducats and the promise of an inheritance from her mother of half a million more which she never got.

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  • In 1457 he arranged a marriage between his eldest son John, and Margaret, daughter of William III., landgrave of Thuringia, who inherited the claims upon Hungary and Bohemia of her mother, a granddaughter of the emperor Sigismund.

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  • Shortly of ter he sought the hand of Lady Elizabeth Hatton, daughter of Thomas, second Lord Burghley, and granddaughter of the great Cecil.

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  • His next brother, Edmund of Langley, who was created duke of York (1385),(1385), founded the Yorkist line, and was father, by a daughter and co-heiress of Pedro the Cruel, king of Castile, of two sons, Edward, second duke, who was slain at Agincourt, and Richard, earl of Cambridge, who by marrying the granddaughter and eventual heiress of Lionel's daughter Philippa, brought the right to the succession into the house of York.

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  • Suffolk's wife, Alice, was widow of Thomas, earl of Salisbury, and granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer.

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  • His son Charles had died in 1328 and he was succeeded by his granddaughter Joanna, wife of Andrew of Hungary, but the princes of the blood I.

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  • On the other hand, an attempt to regain the friendship of Russia, which had broken off diplomatic relations with Sweden, was frustrated by the refusal of the king to accept the bride, the grand duchess Alexandra, Catherine II.'s granddaughter, whom Reuterholm had provided for him.

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  • The marriage of his son to the granddaughter of Aurangzeb and the formal restoration of the crown to the dethroned emperor were doubtless politic, but the descendant of Babar could not easily forget how humiliating a chapter in history would remain to be written against him.

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  • He married the granddaughter of an Indian chief; and during several years' official work near Lake Superior, and later under authorisation of an Act of Congress of 1847, he acquired much information as to institutions, &c., of the American natives.

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  • His mother Sibyl was "of gentle birth," a daughter of William Bowate and granddaughter of William Stratton of Stratton, Hants.

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  • His mother was the younger Antonia, daughter of Marcus Antonius and niece of Augustus, and he married Agrippina, the granddaughter of the same emperor.

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  • The duchess of Baden was the granddaughter of Sophia, princess of Sweden, and the marriage of the crown prince thus effected a union between the Bernadotte dynasty and the ancient Swedish royal house of Vasa.

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  • His family on the father's side were of good descent, and distinguished both in the law and in arms, while his mother was the granddaughter of Malesherbes.

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  • Robert De Beaumont (1104-1168), justiciar of England, married a granddaughter of Ralph Guader, earl of Norfolk, and receiving his father's English fiefs in 1118 became earl of Leicester.

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  • His son Guilford Dudley was hastily married to Lady Jane Grey, the eldest granddaughter of Henry VIII.s younger sister Mary.

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  • Such were Ingimund the Old, Geirmund Hellskin, Thord Beardie (who had wed St Edmund's granddaughter,) Audun Shackle, Bryniulf the Old, Uni, to whom Harold promised the earldom of the new land if he could make the settlers acknowledge him as king (a hopeless project), and others by whom the north-west, north and east were almost completely " claimed."

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  • But what about the empty space in grandma's album just waiting for her granddaughter's wedding invitation?

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  • Please don't say anything personal or embarrassing, Grandma does not want to hear about her Granddaughter's deviant behavior from the past!

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  • Named after my granddaughter and looks just as cheeky.

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  • Now a town museum, it was once the home of Thomas Nash who married the girl next door, Shakespeare's granddaughter Elizabeth.

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  • Three years previously he had married a granddaughter of the Prophet, under circumstances casting a curious light on his domestic ways.

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  • Sign up now e-newsletter Success Stories Real life example - Nina Nina had always bought aids and equipment to support her visually impaired granddaughter.

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  • To her eldest granddaughter she once divulged her true feelings.

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  • Our beloved granddaughter, our thoughts of you will never die, always in our minds, always in our hearts.

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  • My seven year old granddaughter asked me where all my wrinkles were going!

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  • A second edition, edited by his great granddaughter Nora Barlow, appeared in 1958.

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  • The victims ' granddaughter, the pretty woman, enters the scene and it all goes downhill from there!

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  • What is more, for the granddaughter of the chief Louver curator, she is represented as utterly ignorant of art history.

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  • Clara was brought up in Shropshire, the granddaughter of a village postmaster, Thomas Harriman Perry.

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  • The house adjacent to New Place known as Nash's house was that of Thomas Nash, who married Shakespeare's granddaughter Elizabeth Hall; it is used as a museum.

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  • At the latter place he spent his last years with a married granddaughter, the wife of a surgeon, Thomas Harris, dying there on the iith of December 1737, at the age of ninety-four.

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  • On the next day the emperor William officially announced the betrothal of the Cesarevitch (afterwards the tsar Nicholas II.) to the princess Alix of Hesse, a granddaughter whom the queen had always regarded with special affection.

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  • Morgan, in Ancient Society, pp. 439-423, makes the Polynesians to have distinctive terms for grandfather, grandmother, grandson and granddaughter.

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  • His father, Walter Whitman, was a farmer and carpenter; his mother, Louisa Van Velsor, was the granddaughter of a sea captain.

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  • Maria Rodale, granddaughter of the founder, is currently the CEO of Rodale, Inc. Rodale has an organic farm in Pennsylvania where it tests many new concepts and techniques.

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  • The My First Christmas with Lenox doll would make a great gift for a new daughter, niece, or granddaughter.

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  • That sleigh ornament you gave your daughter when she graduated from college will have significance for your granddaughter years from now.

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  • A daughter is an obvious choice, as is a granddaughter.

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  • Also, involve your school-aged daughter or granddaughter in careful shopping and bargain hunting.

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  • If your child, or perhaps a granddaughter or niece, falls under this category, there are a number of kid friendly options to explore.

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  • Steve's granddaughter, Elizabeth Webber has been a featured character on GH since 1996.

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  • Though he believes Faith to be his child with Ashley, she is actually his granddaughter (stolen by Adam at birth).

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  • The biological tie between the women separated Jill's son Billy Abbott from Katherine's granddaughter Mackenzie, leaving the would-be lovers longing for each other for years.

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  • Kayley says she needs to uphold her image as "Hollywood royalty" because she's legendary actor Clark Gable's granddaughter.

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  • Another returnee, Lily Moore (Laura Allen) from the 1990s, is the granddaughter of Richard's former girlfriend, with the same name and same appearance.

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  • Apollo carried off from Mount Pelion the nymph Cyrene, daughter or granddaughter of the river-god Peneus, and conveyed her to Libya, where she gave birth to Aristaeus.

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  • On the death of Conradin, Hugh of Cyprus had been recognized in the East as king of Jerusalem (1269); but his pretensions were opposed by Mary of Antioch, a granddaughter of Amalric II., who was prepared to bequeath her claims to Charles of Anjou, and was therefore naturally supported by him.

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  • Through the daughter and granddaughter of the 7th earl the castle and estates became the property of the 1st marquess of Bute (who was created Baron Cardiff in 1776), to whose direct descendant they now belong.

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  • In 1844 he was chosen as a presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket; in February 1845 he married Miss Varina Howell (1826-1906) of Mississippi (a granddaughter of Governor Richard Howell of New Jersey), and in the same year became a Democratic representative in Congress.

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  • The tradition that he was descended from Dr Rowland Taylor, Cranmer's chaplain, who suffered martyrdom under Mary, is grounded on the untrustworthy evidence of a certain Lady Wray, said to have been a granddaughter of Jeremy Taylor.

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  • Returning to Oxford, he was elected a fellow of Merton College, and was ordained; and in 1833 he was presented to the rectory of Lavington-with-Graffham in Sussex by Mrs Sargent, whose granddaughter Caroline he married on the 7th of November 1833, the ceremony being performed by the bride's brother-in-law, Samuel Wilberforce, afterwards bishop of Oxford and of Winchester.

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  • Only Malasha, Andrew's six-year-old granddaughter whom his Serene Highness had petted and to whom he had given a lump of sugar while drinking his tea, remained on the top of the brick oven in the larger room.

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