Dear Aunt Fan was generous and feckless, a large woman with a heart of gold, never a penny to bless herself with or a feather to fly with. |
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When we'd beaten the rugs, scoured the plank floors, and polished the mopboards, Aunt Helga declared that it was time to rest. |
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Clive Francis, as the Aunt, created the illusion of an old woman by a twist of the body and the turn of the head and one believed in it. |
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Aunt Margaret came out of the tailor shop just moments later, her eyes twinkling with some sort of secret knowledge. |
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Why did Aunt Debbie have to ruin my complete miserableness and make everyone notice me? |
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In the mid 1960s my Aunt Alice, a retired bilingual executive secretary, had almost suddenly become unable to lift her chin off her chest. |
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I trusted Aunt Demeter to look out for my safety, but she betrayed every detail of my running away. |
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There was the sound of the phone clicking, and then Aunt Emily strode back into the kitchen. |
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The gloriously retired Mad Aunt claims to have total recall, and then keeps asking you what you've been talking about. |
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At this point, Zack's Aunt mercifully intervened and took him inside to feed him some pasta and fudgsicles. |
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They spoil everything, from a night out at the pictures to a meticulously-planned caper, involving a rich Aunt and a rubber zombie mask. |
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Around her neck she wore a necklace of amber beads that she had inherited from her Great Aunt Caroline, who had also been her godmother. |
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I stop stirring the cake batter and try to get the phone from my cousin, but she's already handing it to Aunt Malka. |
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He hated mealtimes, especially with Aunt Bella watching over him, or Uncle Simon making comments. |
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On more humble family news, my Aunt and her hubby had a nice little bashment for their 25th wedding anniversary last night. |
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At church that morning, Aunt Polly realizes that Tom and Becky are missing, and the town begins to search the maze-like cave to find them. |
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When Kait went downstairs that morning after taking a long, soothing shower, Aunt Sally immediately barraged her with questions. |
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See, I went to the gym for the first time in a long time Saturday morning, and then Sunday night Aunt Flo came barging in. |
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Aunt Pinkey was enough like her nephew to understand and even get a bang out of the ridiculousness of his momentary rage. |
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As we stood there awkwardly, clutching our bags, Aunt Rachel gazed at us thoughtfully. |
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Poor Aunt Barb didn't know the frequency, and so she jiggled in vain until someone heard her cries for help and came to the rescue. |
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Usually, I touch the cornerstones on the buildings, but Aunt Issa had said men would know I am a child from my hands and such a childish move. |
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When the doorbell rang, I bounced up, but Aunt Rachel hustled me back into the sitting room as she answered the door. |
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Her Uncle Ob, a disabled World War II veteran, enjoys creating art sculptures in the form of whirligigs and her Aunt May enjoys gardening. |
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You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif or ganja. |
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His Aunt Sakura lived with his mother, Arisu, helping to bring in the money with her night job while his mother worked the day shift. |
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Not unless there's a mortgage company that takes down payments in sixties Superhero comic books and Great Aunt Martha's willowware. |
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Your Aunt Lillian managed to get hold of him and it seems there's little chance of my son escaping her clutches until the Season ends. |
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It wasn't my Aunt Vera in the casket, not unless she'd changed into a bald-headed old man with a thick mustache. |
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The older generation, such as Aunt Olivia, tended to scoff at such suggestions. |
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Yet, as I sat, making polite conversation with Aunt Alice, I hunted for every little wrong thing I could find. |
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When we were kids, my Aunt Joan knitted Christmas stockings for everybody in the family. |
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Aunt Gloria said she was off wheat of all kinds because of being on a gluten-free diet. |
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So what if Sweeney buys drinks for Rachel Rabinowitz or Aunt Helen's footman dandles the second parlormaid? |
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I am not saying that you should not go FSBO or let your house be sold by Aunt Millie, who just got her license last month. |
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Then we went back to Aunt Linda's house since Uncle Jack was due home soon. |
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But I knew all those words were somehow reproachful, and that Aunt Jane and Mum were probably talking about me. |
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Sid speaks up and points out that Aunt Polly used white thread to sew Tom's shirt, but now the thread is black. |
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I only knew their names because I heard Aunt Caren tell them to be mannerly. |
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Aunt Gail moved back, holding me at arm's length, tears glistening in her eyes. |
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Aunt Marion and Mrs. Nichols were both in the kitchen, sitting together at the rough and ancient table. |
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Uncle August was married to my Aunt Avice, a pudgy and round sort of woman. |
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Yesterday Aunt M. turned 92, continuing the tradition of long-lived women in my family. |
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However my sister changed that for me when my Aunt put a lovely shiny silver shilling piece in my hand for luck. |
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As expected, the door opened to reveal Aunt Demeter's porcelain, rose-accented features and sable hair. |
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He gave a warm, wonderful eulogy for Aunt Jo and choked up enough a couple of times that he had to stop and gather himself. |
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It's a respectable CV, but in his native land he's something of an Aunt Sally. |
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As far as the placebo issue is concerned I believe they are using the Food and Drug Administration as an Aunt Sally. |
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First opponents of change construct an Aunt Sally, grossly misrepresenting it. |
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It's an example of the way in which the British royalty have become an Aunt Sally. |
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It may be true that it acted merely as a proxy, an Aunt Sally for fears about enlargement, unemployment, immigration and inflation. |
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In one episode, normally sweet-natured Aunt Bee has to give him a stern talking-to for being hypocritical and caught up in appearances. |
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I have to spend a lot of time explaining to my Aunt Mae that there are no aliens, monsters under the bed, or satanic cults in our company. |
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You remember Aunt Jane, my father's maiden sister who used to come stay with us almost every summer? |
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Ask a 12-year-old when she last mailed a letter to Aunt Minnie and you're likely to get a blank stare. |
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The Mad Aunt and I were accompanied by her son and his partner, all of whom are foodies, veggies or both. |
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The next day, Aunt Polly punishes him for playing hookey by making him whitewash their entire fence. |
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And the only one who saw through the hyperbole and the meaningless superlatives was my Aunt Petunia, and she was half-deaf. |
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Aunt told me how to make plum jam with cornelian cherry while visiting a little village bazaar at Yalova. |
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In the end Aunt Louise conceded defeat and left Tallulah to her own devices. |
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Recently orphaned, Mary is living under the guardianship of her Aunt in the country in Sussex. |
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I knew from my Aunt Maria that my father had doted upon the beautiful Senorita shamelessly. |
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Aunt Casey lived in a townhouse in a residential, almost suburban, area of Vancouver. |
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Huston does show us how old Aunt Julia is, but he has chosen to make her singing match her physiognomic decay. |
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I outspanned on what is now Market Square and let the oxen graze there whilst I walked up to where my Aunt lay ill in a tent. |
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She wouldn't stand still, trying to eavesdrop, so my Aunt suggested they go for a drive to stickybeak at my mum's new house. |
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Her motive was likely to have been to press-gang an unwary man into Aunt Fanny's Sewing Circle, the court was told. |
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Sure, your cubicle mate, neighbor, and aunt all own a Fitbit or JawBone fitness tracker. |
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Take it from your Aunt Hillary, that this is not the business deal for you, my little pumpkin. |
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And there, the sand castle builder and tag player who loved her aunt more than science would be buried. |
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When Juana was 8, her father abandoned the family and the girl moved to Mexico City to live with her aunt. |
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Her eyes lit up as she saw her uncle and aunt, there to welcome her back into the real world. |
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I'll have fun being an aunt, or a parents' friend, or an occasional babysitter on my friends' date nights. |
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No, these bath salts never were meant to soften the skin, if that was the hope of the creepy aunt. |
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The kitchen smelled of cookies or whatever my Aunt Renee was finishing up for our desserts, and fresh coffee percolating. |
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Her Aunt Patsy tries to set her up temporarily with a rich Oklahoma oilman named Daniel, but Lucy actually falls for him. |
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Aunt Neal had already began pouring me a bowl of oatmeal, putting sausage on a plate and shoveling a pound of bacon in the same saucer. |
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The first of these, published in 1846, bore the title of a featured novelette, Aunt Patty's Scrap Bag. |
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Andy finds time to squire a few pretty ladies around, too, and even his motherly Aunt Bee dallies with romance this season. |
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Mr. Matheson pitched this just loud enough to elicit a squawk from Aunt Elsa. |
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Aunt Betty often offered to spin neighbours' wool for them as a source of extra income. |
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It turned out that Matt's Dad was a naval captain and his mother worked in Hong Kong, so he had to live with his Aunt. |
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He takes over a pub from his Aunt Paula after failing at innumerable ne'er-do-well schemes in London. |
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Home winemaking still suffers something of an image problem, with those jokes about Aunt Enid's undrinkable nettle wine. |
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The Right Wing Aunt is a mousy librarian by day, but at night she's to be found nowhere but the pub. |
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She blotted her lips on a tissue, like I'd seen Aunt Jean do, then hooked my arm in hers. |
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Anna Palme was a great aunt of the future Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme. |
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My wacky aunt takes a swim before the lake freezes every winter. |
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My aunt would bring a stack of torrid bodice rippers with her to the beach, and would unfailingly blush if disturbed in her reading. |
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She introduced herself. I said, 'Where'd you get a name like Carly?' and she said, from her aunt. |
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Aunt Mary was Uncle Burney 's double aunt. Now figure that out. She was Uncle Burney 's father's sister and also his mother's sister. |
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How they must have laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin! |
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We were invited by the aunt of my grandson to go in on renting a cabin in the woods outside of Flagstaff, Arizona for a week. |
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My aunt considered all of Europe to be heathendom, and refused to visit us in Amsterdam on religious grounds. |
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Although my uncle likes to travel, my aunt is a homebody, so he usually comes with us while she stays home with her cats. |
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My aunt Gracie Juanita could build Tara if you gave her a year and a key to the Home Depot. |
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The Haute family was related to the Woodvilles through the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville's aunt, Joan Woodville, to Sir William Haute. |
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He was William's closest agnatic relative, as well as son of William's aunt Albertine Agnes. |
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Nelson's aunt, Alice Nelson was the wife of Reverend Robert Rolfe, Rector of Hilborough, Norfolk and grandmother of Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe. |
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His charming, intelligent, and cultured cousin Emma Wedgwood, nine months older than Darwin, was nursing his invalid aunt. |
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On 17 April 1763, they had a daughter, whom they named Sarah after Priestley's aunt. |
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In 1520, Charles visited England, where his aunt, Catherine of Aragon, urged her husband, Henry VIII, to ally himself with the emperor. |
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It pleased her to see Aunt Maude waiting tables. Smiling to herself, Alice reflected that Maude was materteral... like a kindly aunt. |
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Sophia had for three years in her youth been ward of the poet's aunt and uncle. |
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The death of their aunt in October of the same year forced them to return once more to Haworth. |
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His aunt Nellie Limouzin also lived in Paris and gave him social and, when necessary, financial support. |
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She spent time recovering at her friend Violet Dickinson's house, and at her aunt Caroline's house in Cambridge. |
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In 1878, at the age of five, Vaughan Williams began receiving piano lessons from his aunt, Sophy Wedgwood. |
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His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. |
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Harry Potter is an orphaned boy brought up by his unfriendly aunt and uncle. |
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Yates's partner is Yvonne Walcott, who is the aunt of Arsenal football player Theo Walcott. |
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Her first experience of sailing was on a boat owned by her aunt Thea MacArthur on the east coast of England. |
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After these trips, Warner would bring Thomas back for supper with his aunt. |
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She was an aunt of the Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich Hayek on her maternal side. |
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When he was eight an aunt bought him a magic set and he spent hours perfecting the tricks. |
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Sometimes they sets theirselves alight, but not orfen, for it aint much o' a fire aunt leaves in. |
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Her aunt is kind but her uncle frightens her with his authoritative demeanour. |
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He received no triumph on his return and did not apparently run for the consulship, but he did marry Julia, the aunt of Julius Caesar. |
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Satisfied her aunt had things under control, Addy put on the coffee and sliced and arranged the pound cake on a cookie sheet. |
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My old fussbudget aunt had a very preachy manner and would prattle on about the dangers of alcohol and other vices. |
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She was a daughter of Philip's maternal uncle, John III of Portugal, and paternal aunt, Catherine of Austria. |
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The English actor and linguist John Walker uses the spelling ar to indicate the long vowel of aunt in his 1775 rhyming dictionary. |
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He spent some time living along the North Sea Coast between Newcastle and London, and lodged with his aunt in Whitby. |
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It is suggested that perhaps Gray found inspiration for his poem by visiting the gravesite of his aunt, Mary Antrobus. |
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Elizabeth is surprised and delighted by the kindness to herself and her aunt and uncle. |
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Richard, however, was taken by his aunt, Mary Frances Knight, and after her marriage to the Rev. |
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His father described how other relatives had been mentally ill, including an aunt of the gunman who has a schizophrenialike condition. |
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I hated her when she yelled at my aunt. She seemed ugly, a witch, always angry. Emptiness and anger. Buttocks are squooshy like breasts. |
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Anna Massey had great fun as a prissy maiden aunt who was only slightly more right-wing than Attila the Hun. |
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Melchior is the forerunner of the aunt who always gave me socks. |
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Quoyle's aunt encourages him to invite a female neighbour, Wavey Prowse, in whom he is romantically interested. |
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Goodness me, are Kitty and Aunt Patience still abed at this hour? |
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Aunt Josephine's head shook and her jowls flapped back and forth. |
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Aunt Christina sat beside him knitting a primrose-coloured jumper for me. |
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Into their barren lives comes Aunt Miriam, a social worker with an agenda. |
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There his mean-spirited Uncle Stan and his kinder but stroke-stricken Aunt Flor live mainly by gathering withies for basket-making, but are now on the edge of destitution. |
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I felt Aunt Laura sit next to me and wrap me in another embrace. |
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Sarah smiled and tried to thank Aunt Marcy in a meek, ladylike manner. |
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I fear that my Aunt Morag will be offended, so don't look alright! |
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Aunt Alice frowned slightly at this reproach against her motherly duties, but the sorrow in her beautiful eyes could not be from this reproach alone, it was too deep. |
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It appears obvious to me, that Mr Normal has neither the ego nor the wish to become an Aunt Sally, at whom all and sundry are entitled to throw their posies or brickbats. |
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Aunt Peggy poured out a saucerful and touched it with a match. |
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Charlotte reluctantly obeyed her Aunt as they gathered up her belongings, one by one, and packed them into suitcases and bags for the trip to North Carolina. |
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Aunt Emily put away the fork and looked over at him, beadily. |
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Aunt Penny couldn't see the difference between a spatula and a spoon. |
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By this point Aunt Sally has moved on to the next offensive remark. |
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Unless you're playing racquetball at the New York Athletic Club or taking Aunt Doris for a sorry ride in a hansom cab, exactly what would you be doing on these three blocks? |
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Someone had phoned Aunt Rachel, nearly giving her a heart attack with the news that her vanished brother's children had been found and one had been arrested for dealing drugs. |
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Aunt Elsa was still at the door, overtipping the delivery men, and Dad Matheson had claimed one of the kitchen chairs and was sipping tap water from a mug. |
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My Aunt Jill and my three cousins went on holiday a little while back to the south of France and were thrown out of their holiday camp for being too noisy. |
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When I was in the area, I'd drop in and say howdy to Aunt Dot and one day, she introduced me to another of the women who volunteered their time in the store. |
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Aunt Jill had a busy day at the office and her secretary called in for a personal day, it being Thanksgiving weekend and all, so I had to fill in. |
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What he doesn't count on, however, is the resolve of the children, or the numerous interferences from the likes of Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine. |
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Aunt Glad had had every kind of cookie cutter in the world, it seemed. |
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Against her better judgment, Aunt Martha agrees to provide free room and board in return for help with the housekeeping in her glorified skid-row flophouse. |
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My Aunt pointed out to me that we always fuss over Dad, but Mum's health isn't great, and it suffers along with my Dad's when something is wrong with him. |
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Sent to his room by Aunt Lou, Joe eavesdrops on the conversation. |
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Tom, a lively and adventurous lad, lives with his priggish brother Sid and his good-hearted Aunt Polly in the quiet town of St Petersburg, Missouri. |
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So it's going to be up to all of you to decipher what I mean by crushing enough peppercorns to fit in the cute little demitasse cup Crazy Aunt Anita bought me. |
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The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie, he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason. |
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Here he was taught to read by his aunt Jenny, and learned from her the speech patterns and many of the tales and legends that characterised much of his work. |
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Bliss gasped, and Nyssa could not help the little giggle that escaped her. It was not often that someone could set her aunt back on her heels so firmly and neatly. |
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In January 1775 he returned to Edinburgh, and that summer went with his aunt Jenny to take spa treatment at Bath in England, where they lived at 6 South Parade. |
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To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the family failing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultory manner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced. |
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When his rich aunt died, he was crying all the way to the bank. |
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Heartbroken, Jane goes to visit her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner at an unfashionable address in London. |
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You head to the counter, blandishing the gift card Aunt Hazel gave you three years ago. |
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A tyre went flat on the return journey and she left Aunt Flo in the car and went off to seek help. |
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Aunt Bessie's delicious Apple and Blackberry Pie and Morello Cherry Pie are now available in 'Perfect for Two' sharing sizes. |
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Why couldn't Aunt Flo have persuaded him to rest his hamstring for another week? |
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Eventually, Lilburne is betrayed to the authorities by Aunt Cat, his black wetnurse. |
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Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her. |
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Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson. |
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You men have had baths, while Aunt Hilda and I haven't had a chance to get clean for fear of waking you slugabeds. |
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The name Sharlene sounds like a chemical, she thought. Aunt Gwen has no taste. |
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Eventually in October, after sending A Clergyman's Daughter to Moore, he left for London to take a job that had been found for him by his aunt Nellie Limouzin. |
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Some months later, Elizabeth and her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner visit Darcy's estate in Derbyshire, Pemberley. |
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Their complexion was lustreless and clammy, although Aunt Evelyn's odd man had given them all the energy of his elbow. |
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Though Aunt Maud had always maintained she was not long for this world, she outlived all her generation. |
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Known to Robert as Aunt Nelly, Eleanor had been engaged to be married before travelling to London to work in domestic service. |
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These are the words of an old Armenian lady whom the Taraf correspondent called Aunt Seta. |
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In 1928 curmudgeonly magician Stanley Crawford leaves his fiancee in London to visit his Aunt Vanessa on the French Riviera. |
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Today, the game of Aunt Sally is still played as a pub game in Oxfordshire. |
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An Aunt Sally was originally a figurine head of an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth, or subsequently a ball on a stick. |
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The family's finances did not flourish, and Aunt Branwell spent the money with caution. |
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Finally, Henry and Aunt Magnolia drive to Colorado to meet his parents at the airport. |
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Him, ten years old, in that hat with earflaps Aunt Marthe had given him to go with the Christmas duffel coat from grandmama. |
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My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries. |
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I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating! |
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I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded. |
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Oh, no! Oh, no! Aunt Hoda got into the caipirinha supply. Everybody, watch yourself, she gets grabby. |
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The finance minister, a true Aunt Sally figure, was dispatched to Moscow in search of backing. |
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Aunt Bessie's is a large food company in the west of Hull near the A63 and Hessle. |
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Then, Aunt Eula would call to me as she brought out my very own straw hat and gloves. |
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The following year Robert's Aunt Nelly married and George married Elizabeth Hindmarsh. |
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Dressing myself as quietly as I could, and leaving Peggotty to look after my aunt, I tumbled head foremost into it, and then went for a walk to Hampstead. |
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His aunt Julia was Marius' wife, and Caesar identified with the populares. |
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New Zealand opening batsman Raki Weerasundara who was born in Sri Lanka has the support of his father Asoka Weerasundara and his mother Rangika as well as his sister and aunt. |
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Proving that when good things come they come in pairs, Moss Kelly was the twice proud father or twin boys last Thursday... this makes Louise Splane a double aunt or something. |
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Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me. |
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In the late afternoon when the ground is squishingly soft and soggy and the grass can be peeled loose from the earth, along comes Mother's aunt, puffing down the road. |
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Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction. |
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The paternal aunt, paternal niece and paternal granddaughter, referred to as odalkvinna, all had the right to inherit property from a deceased man. |
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That same year, Potter used some of her income and a small inheritance from an aunt to buy Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey in the English Lake District near Windermere. |
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He lodged during term times at the house of his aunt Isabella. |
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On the sudden death of her aunt in 1670, Anne returned to England. |
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Although Priestley's aunt had promised her support if he became a minister, she refused any further assistance when she realised he was no longer a Calvinist. |
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Meanwhile, Marco Polo's mother died, and an aunt and uncle raised him. |
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Thomas Russell's heir was his cousin John Haket, son of his aunt Alice. |
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David's aunt sends him to a far better school than the last he attended. |
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Among his lost works are his funeral oration for his paternal aunt Julia and his Anticato, a document written to defame Cato in response to Cicero's published praise. |
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At age 18, while visiting his aunt, Lady Wimborne, in Bournemouth, Winston fell 29 feet from a bridge, leaving him unconscious for three days and bedridden for three months. |
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Its record of 1,362 performances was bested in 1892 by Charley's Aunt. |
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He takes Tom along and trusts to Aunt Norris for the others. |
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There was a faded picture on the mantel at home of Uncle Pete, age four, holding the hand of Aunt Bareeba, a fat three-year-old with frizzy dark hair and a scowlly expression. |
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The line includes Aunt Jemima Frozen Blueberry Mini Pancakes, Aunt Jemima Frozen Original Mini Pancakes and Aunt Jemima Frozen Cinnamon French Toast Sticks. |
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Shasta was made aware of it by how Aunt Lily's right gloved hand tightened its grip on Shasta's elbow at the sight of certain kiosks they passed by. |
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The story describes the dog and the various mischief he gets up to but the crisis in the book comes when the family comes home from visiting Aunt Celia and her chooks. |
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Aunt Daisy didn't take it kindly when we forgot her anniversary. |
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Aunt Meg called it a millefleurs, or thousand flowers, tapestry. |
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Though in her 90s, Aunt Millie was quite able-bodied and very able-minded. |
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Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily, And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton, And Major Walker who had talked With venerable men of the revolution? |
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Aunt Branwell also gave them books and subscribed to Fraser's Magazine, less interesting than Blackwood's, but, nevertheless, providing plenty of material for discussion. |
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Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over. |
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Was pink pig Mr. Swoon absolutely sure my wife had not telephoned? He was. If she did, would he tell her we had gone on to Aunt Clare's place? He would, indeedie. |
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The first walk I took when I grew stronger and was able to get about was up to Aunt Jane's, notwithstanding she had never so much as been to ask after me all these days. |
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Most families at some point have seen in the corner of granny's or Aunt Mabel's house a tall grandfather or grandmother clock, but this one was different. |
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Aunt Zena and Uncle Bill Druss are the coolest eightysomethings I know of, and I will gladly eat the early bird special or visit Sawgrass Mills with them anytime. |
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