The titular reference is to what she learned from her grandfather, a rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah. |
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My grandfather was an Aberdonian who was secretary of the Union shipping line. |
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On the one day when she forgot to wind the clock, or wasn't able to, and it stopped, her grandfather died. |
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My wife's grandfather went through the battle of Jutland as a sixteen-year-old midshipman. |
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If it had not been for that day, she'd still be living with her mother, not knowing anything about her evil grandfather and his wicked schemes. |
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Meanwhile, he has reclaimed the house of his maternal grandfather in Maine, and is setting himself up as a private detective. |
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From the age of sixty onwards, grandfather lost interest in most things that were not related to bee-keeping and the planting of trees. |
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Her grandfather was a successful farmer who owned potato fields, beehives, and a few head of cattle. |
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Antonio's maternal grandfather, a Mescalero Apache, had a major influence on him. |
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Walter never knew his grandfather, John Jones senior, who was a seaman and died at sea when son John and his two sisters were small. |
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That's the way my senile grandfather looks when I tell him he would have made a great first baseman for the Yankees. |
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The cave where their grandfather lived while he tilled the land for the first time stood behind us. |
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My grandfather was excited by his discovery and contacted his brother to expand the program by working collectively with other events. |
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The grandfather is dying and the novel consists essentially of the grandson's memories and meditations around this death. |
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Let's even put a grandfather clock ticking self-confidently against one wall. |
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It's the story of a young man looking at the special garment that his grandfather, the medicine man, was wearing. |
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His paternal grandfather sought his fortune as a fur trapper in Canada, joined the Mounties, then emigrated to South Africa. |
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Jenson Button dedicated his eighth podium finish of the season to his sick grandfather after a fine drive in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. |
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Nullification, the prelude principle to secessionism, was put forth by Jefferson, the grandfather to neoliberals. |
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Next in line is the maternal grandfather but, says the study, only because he's living with the grandmother. |
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He said the greatest lesson he learned from his maternal grandfather was the support he offered grieving families. |
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He has reason to be concerned as his mother and grandfather on his maternal side died of a sudden heart attack in their late fifties. |
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I have gone to the trouble to make peace with my father and the rest of our family including my maternal grandfather before he died. |
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A devotee of the Ouija board and seances, King enlisted the aid of his dead grandfather while he was composing the inscriptions. |
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And he sealed the document with the seal of arms that his grandfather had worn. |
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A career cop who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he believes the end justifies the means. |
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A greedy otter has left a Preston grandfather scratching his head for a solution to stop the animal slinking into his pond to eat his fish. |
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From what he told me, his grandfather passed the mantle onto him years ago. |
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The grandfather clock in the hall chimed the seven o'clock hour at his arrival. |
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A heartbroken grandfather has made a tearful appeal for the return of his beloved Jack Russell dog. |
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I took the note and taped it on my mirror to read every day because it was from my grandfather. |
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It was stated that the bell was a very old one and had belonged to the late Mr. Churchley's grandfather. |
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My grandfather was not a tactile man and this created patterns of behaviour which impacted on us. |
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His grandfather raised gaited horses, and he rode decendants of the great saddlebred, Rex McDonald. |
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The girl behind me in the queue was here because her grandfather made the masks and costumes for some of the luchadores. |
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My uncle reminded my grandfather of my father's low opinion of his life's work. |
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It could prove whether his grandfather was the secret love child of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Louise. |
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His paternal grandfather was lodged in a local asylum and his aunt ran a brothel in Copenhagen. |
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His maternal grandfather was a lace designer and his own father a lithographer. |
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The train roars past on the adjacent tracks and grandfather is left standing, shoulders square and legs firm. |
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The person in the centre with the trilby is undoubtedly my grandfather Jack Caton, because of his pronounced limp. |
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She was unfortunately born a girl, negating her from the tribal custom of male leaders, a custom rigorously held by her grandfather. |
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Officers found an antique, double-barrelled Derringer hidden in a walnut grandfather clock in his bedroom. |
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In the corner of his elegant, third-floor City of London sanctum, just behind his antique desk, there is a grandfather clock marking time. |
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Police found the antique gun in a grandfather clock at Holy Rood vicarage in Swinton. |
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As the patriarch of the family, my grandfather commanded an enormous amount of respect. |
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Isabella had forced Lucio to promise that all of the jobs he did for their grandfather were legit and legal before she allowed him to do them. |
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Their grandfather had come to rescue them when he learned of their existence. |
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Another tradition is that the first garment for a baby's layette is made from an old shirt that had belonged to the grandfather. |
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By all accounts, my grandfather was a brilliant curler, as were his team mates. |
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Misguided though this might have been, my grandfather was motivated by altruism and a deep belief in human dignity. |
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His grandfather was an Ayurvedic vaid, and his father, though an allopath, acknowledges the benefits of homoeopathy and other systems. |
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A chiming grandfather clock is all that is lacking to complete a scene redolent of a bygone era framed by stuffiness and reserve. |
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My grandfather died at home at the age of ninety, after a slow decline from Alzheimer's disease. |
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I started collecting vintage watches ever since my grandfather gave me one of his Hamilton vintage wristwatches for my 18th birthday. |
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Her great grandfather lived quite an adventurous life and was ship wrecked off the coast of Iceland. |
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For example, the only thing I remember my grandfather giving me as a child was a reel-to-reel Wollensak tape recorder for my Bar Mitzvah. |
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When Barnum's grandfather claimed to know nothing about this detail, the woodcutter threw down his axe in disgust and sat down on the woodpile. |
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Alex said that when he was about six, he remembers hiking to the top of a mountain with his grandparents and flying kites with his grandfather. |
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He was also pretty active in his family life, fathering sixteen children and, at the last count, he was a grandfather thirty-three times! |
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This pleased Ritchie, who can don his kilt by claiming Scottish kin in the form of a grandfather who served in the Seaforth Highlanders. |
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Moir's grandfather was the son of a butler, sporting spats and a wing collar. |
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As a young married man, my grandfather traveled around West Texas building windmills for a living. |
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He told his granddaughter that she had to wind his grandfather clock every day without fail, but he wouldn't give her a reason. |
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Little Nell Trent lives in the gloomy atmosphere of the old curiosity shop kept by her grandfather, whom she tends with devotion. |
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His father and grandfather, investment bankers at old white-shoe firms, both had high reputations, but erosion soon set in. |
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It wasn't like this in the flat cap days of my grandfather, but I bet that even he wished that he had two tweed jackets instead of one. |
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It is the sort of place I might take my grandfather for a rare steak and a bottle of Chateau Neuf de Pape. |
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Despite Tim's whines and complaints, his grandfather remained firm and decided upon his choice. |
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He was a good father, grandfather and friend and he was highly respected and admired by many. |
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The most important thing a man can do is to be a father and grandfather worthy of admiration. |
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She was brought up in Michigan where her grandfather was an adman for General Motors and her father's sideline was boxing promotion. |
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It's the kind of school where your grandfather the duke has to put you down for enrollment when your dad is born. |
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Her grandfather was once a very loyal supporter of the Dark Sorcerers and I am afraid the apple never falls far from the tree. |
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Unlike his raddled old grandfather, Louis XVI was a chaste family man who never took a mistress. |
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My mother and grandfather are also there, so this would be the missing piece of the jigsaw for our family. |
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Down by the water grew harakeke, and my grandfather planted Jerusalem artichokes in the sandy soil. |
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Before my grandfather started building his home, he hired a water witch to locate the place for their well. |
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But there were many words he couldn't understand and he pestered his grandfather with queries about what they meant. |
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As a girl Ziana's grandfather had taken her camping outside of the city limits on several occasions. |
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I was hurriedly winding our grandfather clock when, in my carelessness, the pendulum disconnected. |
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As the metaphor implies, newer is not necessarily better, and the grandfather clock is still keeping good time. |
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Adel and Doug entered the house just as the large grandfather clock struck twelve. |
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She hears the grandfather clock chiming, but when she looks at it, it is running backwards. |
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Their grandfather was a renowned concert pianist and composer in Adelaide. |
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This infuriated his grandfather, who cursed Barry and never spoke to him again. |
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I watched my grandfather mix paint from linseed oil and pigment. |
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She considered becoming a nun in a French abbey that was once liberated by her grandfather. |
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She insists, laughing, that her grandfather looked better in his britches than Adolf Hitler did in his. |
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His grandfather, alfonso XIII, fled the country during the civil war in 1931 and abandoned his estates and most of his fortune. |
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His great grandfather sailed from Cape Verde and was involved in the whaling industry of Nantucket Island, Mass. |
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The Filipino beauty queen went on to win the title, but resigned when her grandfather fell ill six months later. |
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When his grandfather died, he left Burt a small sum of money, which the beekeeper used to purchase a plot of land in rural Maine. |
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During his second bowl game, his grandfather had a heart attack, and he left to help care for him. |
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My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. |
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He was the first military person in our family since my grandfather, who was a cavalryman for the czar. |
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His father fought for Soviet Russia in Afghanistan, his grandfather was an officer in the Waffen SS, and his great grandfather died in the trenches of Verdun. |
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Looking to the antique grandfather clock in the hallway, I raised a brow. |
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It was like having a chess match against your grandfather, while everyone else played Call of Duty for money. |
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It was Murray who taught Alexander Graham Bell the basics of acoustics and electricity and thus was the grandfather, if not the father, of the telephone. |
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And his big blue eyes filled with tears when his grandfather wept. |
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But was my grandfather really more appalled by this than he was by the crimes of the collaborationist art dealers? |
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My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves. |
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They shared the overriding objective of preserving for the time he came of age the inheritances won by his grandfather and father in England and France. |
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The grandfather was dressed as a choo-choo train bound for Wonderland. |
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It was a very personal subject for him, since his maternal grandfather was a Berlin Jew who died in the Majdanek death camp. |
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My grandfather, who is a dear man, but a dyed in the wool Socialist, told me that the general was a traitor to his race for taking a job with third administration. |
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A few years ago Patton met a French soldier who knew Gordon, and who confirmed the love and devotion she felt for her grandfather. |
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If you know where your grandfather lived when he was about 18, and if he graduated from public schools, see if the local library has yearbooks from back then. |
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It reminds the narrator of his grandfather, an individual repressed by the system who went through his entire life obsequiously saying yes to all the men in power. |
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Not being nearly as eloquent or elucidative as my great-great grandfather, I will leave the great man to speak for himself. |
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It was oh-so subtle, but he began to embody his grandfather and his father. |
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For me, the slow pace of our walk had not just meant taking in all that I came across, but also trying to retrace those steps I had taken with my grandfather. |
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After two years, word comes to the family patriarch, their grandfather. |
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I remember my father leaving our July 4th fireworks party to go to Rome where my grandfather died. |
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As a youth he was apprenticed to a tailor until about the age of sixteen when reconciliation with his wealthy grandfather enabled him to be educated at Oxford. |
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A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural. |
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My grandfather and father all rodeoed, my brother and sister rodeoed. |
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As a boy, I watched my grandfather create a froth of lather in that cup, and shave himself with a straight razor. |
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Her grandfather was decorated for gallantry at Vimy Ridge and went on to found the Canadian armored corps. |
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Both were English-born sons of a French immigrant father or grandfather, and both had a privileged education and were articled to an established civil engineer. |
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My eyes kept roving to the grandfather clock from time to time. |
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My great grandfather hired out rowing boats at Bowness Bay and Lakeside. |
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His grandfather had served as governor of New Jersey, his father was a prominent jurist and New York assemblyman, and he quickly became a leading lawyer and socialite. |
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Defying instructions would have been unthinkable during the tenure of his father or grandfather. |
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On the death of their grandfather, who was a famed stage magician, a brother and sister discover that not all of the old man's magic was performed on a stage. |
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Equally interesting is a sermon of Jonathan's grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, written in lettering so tiny that it's unreadable even with a 5x magnifier. |
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As the name would suggest, the outstanding All Black, No 8 Scott Robertson, includes some tartan genes, courtesy of a Perthshire-born grandfather. |
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It was his grandfather Edmund who started the business in Middleham at the back end of the 19th century, before his father, also called Edmund, took over. |
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My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron. |
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All the mariachi player wanted to do was to be like his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather before him, but fate did not unfold as he had hoped. |
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One can discern in the mirror other objects in the room such an end table, a sculpted bust, an oil lamp, an oval portrait and a grandfather clock. |
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He is like a grandfather to us, the kind who seems like he should have died a while ago and yet stubbornly clings to life. |
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My maternal grandfather used to play piano at cinemas during silent films. |
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My maternal grandfather died the best part of twenty years ago. |
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Shifting from the matrifocal, he also recognizes the gift of courage and acuity from his grandfather, and he mentions his debt to his intellectual father. |
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Ziana began to understand what her grandfather had meant by those words. |
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The grandfather clock's never ending ticks echoed throughout the pub. |
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Each day, he sits on the edge of his bed, head hung in a state of lonely tristesse while the mellifluous tick-tock of a grandfather clock marks time. |
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Ben sat quietly, listening to the tick-tock of the grandfather clock. |
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The metronome is a nice reference tool, but if you don't have one to practice with, think of the arm of a grandfather clock tick-tocking back and forth. |
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My grandfather was a prosperous rancher and although he may have had to tighten his belt, the family never went hungry or faced the danger of losing their land. |
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They see it as being in the tradition of their grandfather, Abdul Aziz, the great warrior of the desert who created the kingdom. |
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Soon after I was judged old enough to accompany the adults on squirrel hunts, my grandfather led me to a huge beech tree on a little branch of the creek. |
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Made in 1957 for my grandfather, constructed out of naval serge and cut by a master at Thresher and Glenny, it's a dazzling bit of three-piece craftsmanship. |
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Emma, I saw the bit on letterman where you spoke of how the ghost of your dead grandfather leaves quarters around the house. |
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Since his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, Beck grew up influenced by church music and hymns. |
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Cromwell's paternal grandfather Sir Henry Williams was one of the two wealthiest landowners in Huntingdonshire. |
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His father, Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, was grandfather to Euphemia II, Countess of Ross and persuaded her to resign her rights to his son. |
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This is our property, the wealth of our great grandfather Prince Gulam Mohammed. |
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Julius' work with the ICS brought the family to British India, where his grandfather had been a general in the Bengal Army. |
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To ease his mother's burdens, Priestley was sent to live with his grandfather around the age of one. |
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The tenderness shown between Micah and his grandfather is really quite touching and there are some very poignant moments weaved into the tale. |
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Darwin was astonished by Grant's audacity, but had recently read similar ideas in his grandfather Erasmus' journals. |
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Digvijay Sinh, whose grandfather designed the facility as his family's summer residence. |
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She drives a red truck that was originally owned by her grandfather. |
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She wrote a heartbreaking story about the death of her grandfather. |
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The Dublin grandfather will sit the Junior Cert History and Classical Studies papers. |
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In spite of being just 34, I already have the kind of slaphead more suitable for a grandfather than the dad of a toddler. |
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I'm also very proud that the LeVecke's are carrying on the successful legacy of their grandfather, Carl Karcher. |
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But Pai's grandfather Koro, the tribal chief, believes his grand-daughter is a curse. |
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A snowshoer since the late '50's, he started with a traditional pair of Trooper shoes given to him by his grandfather. |
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The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. |
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In 1756 he had succeeded his grandfather Alivardi Khan who had been a staunch British ally. |
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Lutatius Catulus and the orator Marcus Antonius, grandfather of Mark Antony. |
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The future emperor was named Romulus after his maternal grandfather, a nobleman from Poetovio in Noricum. |
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He was named Charles in French and English, Carolus in Latin, after his grandfather, Charles Martel. |
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In 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon, grandfather of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, died. |
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When the Hongwu Emperor died on 24 June 1398, Zhu Yunwen succeeded his grandfather as the Jianwen Emperor. |
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As his grandfather Genghis Khan advised, Sorghaghtani chose a Buddhist Tangut woman as her son's nurse, whom Kublai later honored highly. |
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His grandfather smeared fat from killed animals onto Kublai's middle finger in accordance with a Mongol tradition. |
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His grandfather, Yongle Emperor, had high hopes that he might play an important part to assist his father. |
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In the reign of his grandfather John I, Ceuta had been conquered from the king of Morocco, and now the new king wanted to expand the conquests. |
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Winston Churchill was probably one of the most prominent people of Huguenot descent, deriving from his American grandfather Leonard Jerome. |
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He was named after his maternal grandfather, the Elector Maurice of Saxony, who was also a noted general. |
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These are led by an elder patriarch, usually a grandfather, who often has the title of Ataman. |
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Fitzgerald, former mayor of Boston and the maternal grandfather of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy. |
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He was then brought to England and raised by his grandfather, Charles Hutton, Professor of Mathematics at the Woolwich Royal Military Academy. |
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Struggling financially, Vignoles in 1823 returned to Britain when his grandfather died. |
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For the good of man, his father and grandfather planted the high sea-lights upon the Inchcape and the Tyree Coast. |
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I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said. A what? A sight draft. He has to pay or I go to jail. |
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Justin called himself a Samaritan, but his father and grandfather were probably Greek or Roman, and he was brought up a pagan. |
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He was a twenty-minute egg, according to your grandfather, and such men are not soon forgotten. |
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They knew that their great grandfather was Jacob-Abraham Huffman and that he had been a pioneer near Baldur, Manitoba. |
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My great grandfather was an Irish trick cyclist in an American circus, so I agreed that a sense of balance was very important. |
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I loved the pristine white water lilies looking exquisite in the sort of old zinc bath that grandfather washed his feet in. |
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George's grandfather, King George II, disliked the Prince of Wales, and took little interest in his grandchildren. |
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My grandfather bet my father he would smoke them before the month was out because he was a chain smoker. |
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We would wait and wait, the silence broken only by the tick-tock, tick-tock, of our big grandfather clock. |
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Both his father and brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and another brother were executed for treason. |
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Samerah became such a convert she even got her mother Zaitun Iqbal involved along with 86-year-old grandfather Abdul Rehman, who rides a trike. |
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His grandfather had also lost money and the family survived by renting out rooms in their home. |
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For example, a grandfather, without sons, is succeeded by a son of his daughter, when the daughter in question is still alive. |
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He started his reign with the intention of doing for the navy what his grandfather Wilhelm I had done for the army. |
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Welsh had a history of boxing in his family, with his paternal grandfather being a mountain fighter. |
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Henry Ford's grandfather was from West Cork, which was one of the main reasons for opening up the manufacturing facility in Cork. |
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In 1794, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, developed one of the first theories of evolution in his book, Zoonomia. |
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The death of his grandfather and accession of his mother as Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 made Charles her heir apparent. |
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According to one version of the tale, the oil had then passed to Henry's maternal grandfather, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. |
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Maredudd's son, Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, anglicised his name to become Owen Tudor, and was the grandfather of Henry Tudor. |
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His claim to the Fortrean Kingship came through his paternal grandfather, King Nechtan of the Picts. |
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Fordun says that the name came from the grandfather of the imaginary king Eugenius son of Farquahar. |
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My grandfather wore Kente cloth to study at Cambridge, and Savile Row to visit family in Ghana. |
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Children add the given names of their father and paternal grandfather consecutively to their own given name. |
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His maternal grandfather, James Ericke, was the vicar of Thornton, England. |
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There will be a grandfather clause for students currently enrolled and any siblings joining ASD will be covered under this. |
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Indeed, even Thomas's maternal grandfather, Thomas Smith, had been in the same profession. |
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In addition, he displayed several symptoms of mental illness that he may have inherited from his maternal grandfather, Charles VI of France. |
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My grandfather was discharged in 1916 as a reservist but chose to re-enlist and go back to the front and be with his comrades. |
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A WHEELCHAIR-BOUND grandfather is outraged after a thief stole garden tools and a spin dryer from his Coventry home. |
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Known to family and friends as Tom, he was the namesake of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Stearns. |
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Eliot was born at 2635 Locust Street, a property owned by his grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot. |
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My grandfather introduced me to the mystery of life and I'm still in the middle of it. |
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During the year he spent with his grandfather, a love of learning was born, with long hours spent in serious discussion and study. |
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Upon leaving school, Bell travelled to London to live with his grandfather, Alexander Bell. |
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The stone hammer is thousands of years old, found by his grandfather, claimed by his grandfather on land that his grandfather has claimed. |
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Henry II met Malcolm IV in 1157 about Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland previously seized by his grandfather, David I of Scotland. |
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Their marriage in 1816 when Constable was 40 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr Rhudde, rector of East Bergholt. |
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His mother is Sicilian, and his paternal grandfather hails from Cork, Ireland. |
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Hatton is a passionate supporter of Manchester City, with strong links to the club via his father and grandfather, who are both former players. |
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His grandfather and his father both played for Rochdale and Hatton had a trial for the youth team. |
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His grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, was a submarine officer of both World Wars, and a prominent figure of London high society. |
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Even in the guise of a retired grandfather, or a dispensable uncle? |
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He is also said to have been a good father and now a doting grandfather. |
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His maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, was the head of Ealing Studios. |
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Hunter recently referred to a story his grandfather used to tell him about lightning bugs in Arkansas. |
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I found the whole experience quite excruciating, but my grandfather was oblivious. |
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Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge. |
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My grandmother died two years before my grandfather and he came back to live in Oxford. |
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Your grandfather called this long underwear, but today's long underwear is fundamentally different than the stuff most hunters wore 50 years ago. |
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Pepin's son Charlemagne continued in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. |
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His grandfather, former Prime Minister Earl Russell, died in 1878, and was remembered by Russell as a kindly old man in a wheelchair. |
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Like Keats's grandfather, her grandfather kept a London inn, and both lost several family members to tuberculosis. |
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Though not a warrior king like his grandfather, Richard nevertheless enjoyed tournaments, as well as hunting. |
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Richard rejected the approach his grandfather, Edward III, had taken to the nobility. |
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Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty's antecessor and grandfather? |
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Less warlike than either his father or grandfather, he sought to bring an end to the Hundred Years' War that Edward III had started. |
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My grandfather owned a 1960 Morris Minor with stick-out trafficators and as soon I showed an interest, at the age of six, I was under the bonnet. |
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My paternal grandfather, a native of Hadjin, in Cilician Armenia, survived the genocide and found safe haven in Lebanon. |
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He was also the natural candidate of the electors to succeed his grandfather as Holy Roman Emperor. |
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Many building codes include a grandfather clause exempting older buildings until some amount of remodeling occurs. |
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My grandfather mentioned the problem to Lord Fermoy, whom he knew through the British Legion. and Lord Fermoy said he would put in a good word. |
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After the death of his paternal grandfather, Maximilian, in 1519, Charles inherited the Habsburg Monarchy. |
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They passed through a small foyerlike room in which there were several coat trees and an old grandfather clock. |
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His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades. |
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Brad Steelman of Conway knew his grandfather had a recipe for really good salsa that was different than most people had ever tried. |
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He said he and his grandfather are similar in the way that they reach non-Christians and the unchurched. |
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Watt's grandfather, Thomas Watt, was a mathematics teacher and baillie to the Baron of Cartsburn. |
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Henry Marc followed his father and grandfather in becoming a successful civil engineer. |
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Some time between 1309 and 1313, Edward was created Earl of Carrick, a title previously held by his maternal grandfather Niall of Carrick, his mother and his elder brother. |
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Both his father and grandfather were at one time Governors of the Castle, and following the loss of Annandale to Comyn in 1295, it was their principal residence. |
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John Holt and Son, Ltd, London Shrinkers and Waterproofers, was formed in Huddersfield in the mid 1800s by Oxfordshire John's great-great grandfather. |
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In 1519, with the death of his paternal grandfather Maximilian I, Charles inherited the Habsburg territories in Germany, and was duly elected as Holy Roman Emperor that year. |
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Meade says his grandfather was a master on the mailboats sailing from North Wales to Dublin and Belfast who used to take Meade's father with him on some of the trips. |
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Many older toll roads were added to the Interstate System under a grandfather clause that allowed tolls to continue to be collected on toll roads that predated the system. |
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His maternal grandfather was Irish and hailed from Kilkenny. |
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When he did, he did not choose, as was generally the custom, his father's name, Maredudd, but chose that of his grandfather, Tudur ap Goronwy, instead. |
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The grandfather clock keeps going for over a week without winding. |
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It immortalised the way of life of the South Wales Valleys coal mining communities, where Llewellyn spent a small amount of time with his grandfather. |
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Only by bilateral descent is a boy related to his mother's grandfather. |
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When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire. |
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Later medieval legend told of a Coel, apparently derived from Coel Hen, who was the father of Saint Helena and the grandfather of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. |
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Neighbours managed to rescue his grandfather Ali Al Ayatti, who was trying to walk down the staircase, but could not save the boy who was in the smoke-filled room. |
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Maredudd ab Owain rebuilt the kingdom of his grandfather Hywel Dda. |
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Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny. |
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She wore a necklace featuring a pearl tiepin that had belonged to her late grandfather and carried a bouquet of white hydrangeas, roses, and Phalaenopsis orchids. |
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Bunyan's father was a brazier or tinker who travelled around the area mending pots and pans, and his grandfather had been a chapman or small trader. |
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A GREAT grandfather who was stabbed to death following an alleged road rage incident on a village road had recently been given the all-clear from cancer, his family said. |
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By total coincidence, however fortuitous, Mr Webb's grandfather was Sir Jack Bean, Midland inventor of the famous Bean motor car, once tipped as a rival to the Model T Ford. |
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His grandfather, John of Gaunt, was the guardian of the king at that time. |
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His grandfather had served in several local political offices. |
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Swan was the maternal grandfather of Christopher Morcom, Alan Turing's close friend and first love during their studies at the Sherborne boarding school. |
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Dennis' father was killed in World War I and he was brought up by his grandfather, a keen yachtsman who sailed his own yacht, Monometer, on the Thames Estuary. |
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The classical arguments were reintroduced in the 18th century by Pierre Louis Maupertuis and others, including Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. |
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When his grandfather died in 1868, Dalmeny became 5th Earl of Rosebery. |
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Mariana da Silva was the granddaughter of Matias Mendes da Silva, who was the brother of Pedro Vaz da Silva's grandfather, Rafael Mendes da Silva. |
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His maternal grandfather, Albert Jones, was Welsh, and his maternal grandmother, Ada Jones, was born in Pontypridd, to parents from Somerset and Wiltshire. |
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In 1728, Wellington's paternal grandfather Richard Colley, a landlord who lived at Rahin near Carbury, County Kildare, changed his surname to Wesley. |
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By 1427, the Xuande Emperor gave up the effort started by his grandfather and formally acknowledged Vietnam's independence on condition they accept vassal status. |
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Harriet Bey Mesic pays tribute to her great grandfather as well as the other men who served in this unit by telling their story in quite the comprehensive manner. |
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His paternal grandfather Sextus Quinctilius Varus was a senator. |
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My cousin and I have a grandfather and grandmother in common. |
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The dynasty was established by Kublai Khan, yet he placed his grandfather Genghis Khan on the imperial records as the official founder of the dynasty as Taizu. |
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The following year, at the age of 22, George succeeded to the throne when his grandfather, George II, died suddenly on 25 October 1760, two weeks before his 77th birthday. |
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She wore a necklace featuring a pearl tiepin, which had belonged to her late grandfather, and a pearl brooch on her sash that belonged to her grandmother. |
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My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock. |
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Darwin's family tradition was nonconformist Unitarianism, while his father and grandfather were freethinkers, and his baptism and boarding school were Church of England. |
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My grandfather, Dad's dad, Tony, I always called Grandpa Moosh. |
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My grandfather obviously didn't agree with this and made all the responses very loudly in Latin while the rest of the congregation answered in English. |
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His legal reforms built on those of his grandfather, Alfred the Great. |
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My grandfather was originally scheduled to travel on the ill-fated last voyage of the RMS Lusitania, but thankfully had to change his plans at the last minute. |
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Those glory days of cheap hot dogs and cheap beer long ago gave way to absurdly priced concessions and dainty, yuppified treats your grandfather would have sneered at. |
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His grandfather was the Trinidadian writer Alfred Hubert Mendes. |
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His paternal grandfather, Trinh Duc Nhien, migrated to France from Vietnam during the First Indochina War and settled near Agen in Lot-et-Garonne. |
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His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was a clergyman. |
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The Writ of Ayle was an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized. |
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That's according to Linthwaite grandfather Joe McManus who bought the Little Tikes 'My First Remote Control' for his 18-month old grandson, Vinnie. |
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His paternal grandfather, another Charles, had been an army captain, killed in action in Ireland in 1803 when his two sons were hardly more than babies. |
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From age two to six, he lived in Dublin, where his grandfather had been appointed Viceroy and employed Churchill's father as his private secretary. |
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