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Sentence Examples
| A curious sidelight on gourd-growing emerges from the reminiscences of Kinau Wilder, the niece of the botanist Gerrit Parmile Wilder. |
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| The girl that plays my daughter in the series is actually my niece, my sister's little girl. |
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| He could hear Brian's niece shuffling about, the soft heels of her shoes padding against the carpet. |
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| Incidentally, it shrunk into a perfectly proportioned kid's size 8 or 10 sweater, so I gave it to my little niece. |
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| My six-year-old niece regularly stands in front of the mirror, pretending she's a singer. |
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| He is survived by his sister Margaret in England, nephew and niece, relations, neighbours and friends. |
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| A niece had suddenly appeared from nowhere and said that it was a disgrace that her uncle had been neglected. |
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| Her uncle looked at his little niece, her face flashing orange and green and her fingers interlocking in awkwardness. |
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| He is driven to find his captured niece Debbie, who was kidnapped by marauding Comanches. |
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| His niece lives in Barnoldswick and still has a scrapbook of his original cuttings from the Herald. |
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| She has a surviving niece who visits her as often as possible, as do a friend and a god-daughter. |
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| Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece. |
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| Dazed and amnesiac, she takes refuge in the apartment of Betty's aunt, who has loaned the place out to her niece. |
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| The daily grind of life, a demanding family, death of a young, pretty niece due to cancer and no steady job has not diminished his zest for life. |
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| Like the auntie who showers gifts on her niece in order to be loved, but provides no guidance or bases for growth and maturation of the child. |
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| As the 8-year-old niece who is stuck with her unbalanced aunt while she also mourns the loss of her mother, Maxime Foerste is excellent. |
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| The prosecution claims Campbell was sexually fixated with his niece, but she had grown tired of his advances. |
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| Part of his effects removed from HMS Victory, the chronometer was later placed in an inscribed carriage clock case by his niece, Charlotte. |
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| In the light drizzle, his niece, followed by her husband and son, and then her mother, make their way to the mandapam. |
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| Once there, my niece presented Lisa with a picture of the two of us, and tried to pin us down to another visit. |
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| Clara would gracefully surrender her own feelings for the greater good of her niece. |
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| As a young child, this prodigy sketched a portrait of his infant niece in the cradle, to the amazement of his family. |
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| She turned to look at me and rolled her eyes like I was her best friend instead of her dorky niece. |
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| Reflections on Rosemary were given by her niece Claire and one of her great-nieces, Annie. |
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| In this system, childless women may raise a niece or nephew and grandparents may exercise parental control over a grandchild. |
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| The brides niece Ciara Cushen was a pretty flower girl and pageboy was Jamie Jackson. |
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| Her two daughters will be bridesmaids together with her two nieces, his niece, and her nephew and his nephew will be pageboys. |
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| Flower girl was Caoimhe McHale niece of the bride and pageboy was Stephen Doherty. |
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| Here you can see my niece Gabriela and I rocking our pink chandelier earrings. |
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| She was joined by a loyal Blairite who had a niece about to go to university. |
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| Last week, he finally buried his niece, after a delay in identifying her disfigured body. |
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| Natalie arrived shortly after eleven, hurrying her shivering niece into the heated car. |
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| Since I am the treasurer and the niece sends the dues checks to this address, she directed a certified letter here for the Empress. |
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| Prayers of the Faithful were read by Brendan, Alan and Karen, nephews and niece of the deceased. |
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| However, she was well meaning and kind and brought up her niece as a second daughter. |
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| My brother bought a kite for my niece and nephew and they joined in the fun. |
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| Archaeologists believe they have recovered the bones of Mozart's niece from the family vault and will perform DNA tests. |
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| Philip and his niece Bryony escaped injury when the camper van they were travelling in burst into flames in the middle of the road. |
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| I was duly summoned to the front row of the upper circle to watch my niece take her very first faltering steps towards an Equity card. |
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| Flowergirl was Sinead Gavaghan, niece of the bride and pageboy was Michael O'Brien, nephew of the groom. |
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| I visited my family, bounced my baby niece on my knee and went to the movies. |
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| I'm also quite excited today because I've discovered what part my niece is playing in her school nativity play. |
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| He is deeply regretted by his wife Mary, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, niece, nephew, relatives, neighbours and friends. |
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| I have a wife, a son, a sister, a sister-in-law, three brothers-in-law, a mother, a father-in-law, a nephew, and a niece. |
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| Part of the chaperone's motivation for accompanying her niece was to have access to the city's sizable spiritualist community. |
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| I bequeath three-fiftieths thereof to my niece Louisa, daughter of my brother Amos. |
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| Gwen hugged her niece and led her inside for something to fortify her for the days to come. |
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| Deborah Maidment, a niece, and Barbara Satour, a full sister of Mr Liddle, are on the 30 member Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation. |
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| My brother now has it, which is worrying because his wife is preggo and I don't think my little niece can get any more sick. |
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| Negron was dating Mayor Delle Donna's niece, Rita Perito, and their relationship allegedly turned physically abusive. |
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| I sat up late last night working on this project for my niece. |
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| My niece, who is all of six, asked me why we celebrate Independence Day. |
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| And every year my darling little niece has the smallest of nibbles, tells me it's lovely and goes and spits it out in the upstairs loo when she thinks I'm not looking. |
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| I will be glad to hand this binder down to my niece and vouch for its comfort. |
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| Feel free to get heated about this yourself upon noticing your preteen niece texting furiously under the table. |
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| Maybe he and his niece could join a traveling circus to get by. |
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| As well as her parents and sister, she leaves a niece Kim and nephew Josh. |
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| My niece just had surgery at the hospital and they had to put her out. |
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| For the past three years, my niece has been a champion salesgirl in the Nordstrom retail chain, selling fashionable garments to the younger crowd. |
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| Tonight I was finishing up a hat I had knitted for my niece. |
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| The Geordie Ambassador's niece is bottle-feeding these appealing creatures, which have cheeky little black faces, silky coats, and little nubbins of horns. |
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| My niece, god-daughter, Emma, big sis to Lesley-Ann and Bart, turned 18 at the weekend, so David and I hosted a little family celebration on Friday night. |
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| In the smaller house next door, all of three feet away from the farmhouse, the birthday boy's mother and father are staying, along with the birthday boy's niece. |
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| With the death of his elder brother the duke of York in 1827, he became heir presumptive to the Hanoverian throne, since his niece Princess Victoria could not inherit it. |
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| Planning a garden with a child in mind, whether the child is your own, a niece or nephew, neighbors or a scout troop, gives you the opportunity to be a child again. |
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| He hugs his sister, Athelgra, hugs his daughter, Ernestine, hugs his niece Arthel. |
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| Jimmy's niece Lisa gave birth at midnight to a bouncing baby boy. |
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| Billings had feared for her sister and also her niece, who was in one of the destroyed elementary schools. |
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| Lady Wishfort, who now hates Mirabell, will deprive her niece of the half of the inheritance which is in her keeping if Millamant marries Mirabell. |
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| We had a beautiful ceremony, officiated by a justice of the peace, with our siblings as witnesses and my niece and nephew as flower girl and ring bearer. |
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| His wife is the niece of an earl who once worked as a lady-in-waiting to a royal duchess. |
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| His 18-year-old niece, Victoria, succeeded him to the throne. |
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| But the decision was cinched by an email from my 10-year-old niece. |
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| The neighbor was off visiting somebody at the hospital, but a niece was there and let Ortega in. |
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| To seal the treaty, a marriage between Blanche of Castile, John's niece, and Louis the Lion, Philip's son, was contracted. |
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| When the museum finally closed in 2001, these items were returned to Lord Abinger, who descends from a niece of Lady Jane Shelley. |
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| She was the niece of the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and first cousin of the temperance leader Lady Henry Somerset. |
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| Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. |
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| Upon their deaths, his infant son, and niece, Julia Flavia, were likewise enrolled among the gods. |
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| Montfort's niece, Margaret of England, later killed one of the soldiers responsible for his death, purposely or inadvertently. |
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| The act itself was carried out by a freedman of his named Maximus, and a steward of Domitian's niece Flavia Domitilla, named Stephanus. |
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| Later, she took the emperor's ashes to the Flavian Temple and mingled them with those of his niece, Julia. |
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| My niece has watched the whole tape of what happened and it's blatantly obvious that they failed miserably in their duty of care. |
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| When Philip returned to Pella, he fell in love with and married Cleopatra Eurydice, the niece of his general Attalus. |
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| Rachel's bridesmaids were her sister Claire Manners and niece Amelia Manners, and her nephew Ralph Manners was her page boy. |
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| Harriet was close to her niece Frances Lupton, who worked to open up educational opportunities for women. |
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| Froude's work was attacked by Carlyle's family, especially his nephew, Alexander Carlyle and his niece, Margaret Aitken Carlyle. |
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| My wife had a mastectomy in 2007 and at the time our niece found a natural food supplement called Spirulina to help her wellbeing. |
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| Phillipa is survived by niece Heather Madonald, brotherin-law Ian Barron, many cousins and great-nephews. |
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| They all have their moments, but I particularly enjoyed Isobel's feistiness as Scrooge's niece and as the Ghost of Christmas Present. |
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| Mary died unmarried, leaving the estate in common between her nephew Maurice Bocland and her niece Jane wife of John Eyre. |
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| But Warren came with my mother the very next day, in his Bill Cosby sweater and pleated khaki pants, ready to meet his niece. |
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| Mury, however, frounced her brows, and made Sir Tyke Winchap's niece a profound courtesy behind her back. |
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| Waltheof was married to William's niece Judith, daughter of Adelaide, and a marriage between Edwin and one of William's daughters was proposed. |
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| The treaty would be sealed by the arranged marriage of John's son Edward and Philip's niece Joan. |
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| He befriended the king's niece, Princess Victoria Kaiulani, who also had a link to Scottish heritage. |
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| He also brought his niece Eleanor of Brittany, aiming to establish her as Duchess of Brittany. |
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| Catherine Champernowne was a niece of Kat Ashley, Elizabeth's governess, who introduced the young men at court. |
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| His niece Lady Hester Stanhope designed and managed the gardens and acted as his hostess. |
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| Within his family, Hooke took both a niece and a cousin into his home, teaching them mathematics. |
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| Voltaire may have been present at the funeral of Isaac Newton, and met Newton's niece, Catherine Conduitt. |
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| Children may be accused of being witches, for example a young niece may be blamed for the illness of a relative. |
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| It is likely that his wife, daughters, niece and one of his sons were captured alongside him. |
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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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| Kublai's niece, Kelmish, who married a Khongirad general of the Golden Horde, was powerful enough to have Kublai's sons Nomuqan and Kokhchu returned. |
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| Philip's fourth and final wife was his niece, Anna of Austria. |
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| Mr. Carter, whose back had been turned, turned about and faced his niece. |
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| After the death of his former patron Henry I, David supported the claims of Henry's daughter and his own niece, Empress Matilda, to the throne of England. |
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| On 16 March 1485 Richard's queen, Anne Neville, died, and rumours spread across the country that she was murdered to pave the way for Richard to marry his niece, Elizabeth. |
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| In February 1603, the death of Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham, the niece of her cousin and close friend Catherine, Lady Knollys, came as a particular blow. |
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| Aristotle married Pythias, either Hermias's adoptive daughter or niece. |
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| A fusspot chef's precisely organised life turns topsy turvy when her sister is killed in a car crash, leaving her to look after her nine-year-old niece. |
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| She has been raising money for her three-year-old niece Kelli, who was first diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer at three months old. |
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| King William's niece, Victoria, ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, but the throne of Hanover went to William's brother Ernest, Duke of Cumberland. |
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| My little niece let fly with the zinger that my sister was pregnant again. |
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| His elder sister was Ulpia Marciana, and his niece was Salonina Matidia. |
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| Hilliard's most famous student, Isaac Oliver, later limner to Anne of Denmark and Henry, Prince of Wales, was married to the niece of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. |
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| The first relates the adventures of a knight who married the young duchess of Calabria, niece of King Meleager of Sicily, but was loved by Medea, the king's wife. |
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| Her niece, Joanna of Castile, attempted to gain the throne by bringing in the foreign help of Afonso V of Portugal, leading to the War of Castilian Succession. |
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| In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece. |
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| Last week, Olvera and her niece, Emily Gallo, delivered 63 specially designed oxygen masks to Station 39 for distribution to all fire stations in the Valley. |
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| In February 1603, the death of Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham, the niece of her cousin and close friend Lady Knollys, came as a particular blow. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The niece, according to Mrs. Prest, was not so old, and she risked the conjecture that she was only a grandniece. |
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| The thought that his great-nephew and his niece had actually slept there horrified him. |
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| She knew not what to make of her niece, who had suddenly become stern and contradictious. |
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| Aunt Farnsworth condoled with her niece on the loss of her money, and the receipt for sally lunn cake. |
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| Then she passed out of the room, leaving the aunt and niece staring at each other with discomforted air. |
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| As this was in a private 'scrutoire, she did not choose to send a servant for it, but gave the key to her niece. |
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| And presently Jan was sleeping almost as soundly as her obstreperous niece. |
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| Here the Reverend John Middleton, unmistakably and infectiously happy, talked with his supposed niece for an hour. |
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| The scoundrel who had spoken of his niece as if she were a strumpet must die. |
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| He lived by himself with his niece Albine in an old house on the border of the demesne. |
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| But what especially moved Alexander was the conduct of Attalus at the marriage feast of his niece Kleopatra. |
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| No one should rightfully accuse him of inveigling the heir to marry his niece. |
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| She keenly resented not being able to write to her niece, Minna, in Berlin. |
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| She was anxious to talk of her niece, and to relate how she had been singing my praises to Monny. |
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| He stared, open-mouthed, after his nephew and niece, and then turned slowly to his friend. |
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| It was clear even to that light-headed lassie, my niece, at the first glance. |
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| The water lily belongs to my little niece and it is she who will pay the bills. |
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| She brought up her niece Sophie, who was cured of phthisis by Doctor Pascal. |
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| Is my niece accounting for her willfulness in staying at home this morning? |
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| But, niece, it is not making too much fun of him to fall in with his fancies. |
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| While this was going on in the Panza household, Don Quixote had been undressed and put to bed by his niece and the housekeeper. |
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| Well, the canon and his niece embarked on board the gastronome, laden with all that could tempt or satisfy appetite. |
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| I am surprised that a general's niece should have all the features of a goatherd. |
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| But that of your niece was obtained by our society reporter from the photographer who took it. |
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| Evidently the desire to hold her niece in her arms had been for telegraphic purposes only. |
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| I told the aunt that I found her niece so pretty that I would renounce my bachelorhood if I could find such a mate. |
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| She carried the potentilla roots to her niece, and when in her house noticed the dog she had received and lost. |
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| In short, if the family is a bad one, one below par, then marriage between cousins or between uncle and niece should be forbidden. |
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| I was going to turn away, not to frighten her, when the figure rose to its height and I recognized Miss bordereau's niece. |
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| You'll sit next your young niece here, and see she don't go slipping any of the spoons off the table inside her camisole. |
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| The woman grasped a clothes-stick with which she proposed to castigate her niece. |
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| But what pleased them more than anything was a china doll, belonging to my little niece, which shut and opened its eyes. |
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| And since her niece had come to live with her, this put-on sternness had increased. |
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| The worthy man, who cherished his niece, always allowed her to tear him from his meditations with angelic patience. |
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| Mrs. nunn called in her maid and sent a verbal refusal to see her niece. |
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| The gratitude of Mrs. Leicester and her niece was delightful. |
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| Grant's shewing civility to Miss Price, to Lady Bertram's niece, could never want explanation. |
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| Eva, my husband's niece, lives right acrost the road from him. |
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| Aranda and his pretty niece were certainly persons of considerable means. |
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| Your niece has plighted her faith to me, and I have plighted mine to her. |
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| Her ring was answered by parr's niece, the woman with the sleek bandeaux. |
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| Mrs. Soher began to dust a secretaire, talking all the while to her niece. |
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| His niece instinctively liked his thin angular body, and the big head with its sweeping features, and the acute, innocent eyes. |
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| She declares that Peggy is indeed his own niece, and Patie's full cousin. |
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| It was here we found aurelian and Livia, and his niece aurelia. |
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| A niece of his was hazed at college and contracted pneumonia. |
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| The time was now come when Sir Thomas expected his sister-in-law to claim her share in their niece, the change in Mrs. |
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| By writing to him that his house is poisoned and his little nephew and niece mad? |
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| The gentlemen considered a niece of Mrs. stanhope as their lawful prize. |
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| My niece, Miss Pollyanna Whittier, is coming to live with me. |
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| I took the poor man with my niece back to my home in Auvergne, where, unfortunately, I lost him some months later. |
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| Miss bree and her niece, between them, carried home the large box. |
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| My niece will wyte on people of doubtful conduck over my dead corpse. |
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| As a postscript she mentioned that it was her niece who was to be married. |
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| We have judged it best that my niece should be married from this house, of which I hope you will approve. |
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| Osgood's inclination to remain with her niece gave them also a reason for staying to see the rustic beauty's toilette. |
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| Bulstrode is anxious for her niece, and I myself should grieve at a calamitous change in your position. |
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| Whenever he saw his niece pensive or tearful he laughed at her and called her a grass widow. |
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| Higginbotham's niece, a ball, of the consistence of hasty pudding, hit him slap in the mouth, giving him a most grim aspect. |
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| The Abbe de Sponde was among the first to perceive the secret unhappiness this marriage now brought to the private life of his beloved niece. |
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| And then the fig ure of Hermann's niece appeared before my mind's eye, with the wealth of her opulent form, her rich youth, her lavish strength. |
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| You may not be aware, sir, that in receiving my niece under her roof her Ladyship was receiving a gentlewoman by birth as well as by education. |
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| At the same time you might just drop a hint to your wife, and to that remarkably clever young niece of hers, Miss Penelope Morse. |
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| I am glad to know that I have a niece who can make such a mince pie. |
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| I'll make it to fit my niece, Jenny Gillis, for she and Anne are as like as two peas as far as figure goes. |
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| At last Miss gurney and the niece decided to return to England. |
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| My lord cardinal, besides, can endow his niece royally, nay, more than royally. |
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| Another of her relatives, a niece, had married a small-town sharper. |
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| He had deputed his niece, Mrs Castleton, to take the head of his table. |
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| During the case, at Newcastle Crown Court, it was revealed that Christopher had been involved in an incestuous relationship with his niece, Lisa. |
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| Peggotty, unless you can induce your gentle niece to come back, I shall go. |
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| Bourgeois, his son, Jason, her niece, Amanda Girard, two of Amanda's friends and Lunenburg police officer Michael Luth. |
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| My niece trusts thee, but she is but a girl, with all her self-reliance. |
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| Mrs. Van Geist fixed her niece with a sudden look of suspicion. |
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| I made Eva, that's my niece, take a picture of it just on that account. |
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| Judith, my niece, has almost ruined the boy by humoring him. |
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| The women were his sister and niece, the man was a Mr. Sprague. |
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| But her thoughts were interrupted by the return of Miss Avery's niece, and were so tranquillizing that she suffered the interruption gladly. |
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| Perhaps it was the mention of aristocrats that reminded her of Richard Dalloway and Rachel, for she ran on with the same penful to describe her niece. |
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| Ablewhite stood up in the middle of the room, with his bald head much pinker than I had ever seen it yet, and addressed himself in the most affectionate manner to his niece. |
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| Bygrave only, but even in his niece as well, with such a genuine air of annoyance that he actually contributed a new element of confusion to the existing perplexities of Mrs. |
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| Why will you not confide in me for the management of my niece? |
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| It was no riddle to her, as it had been to her niece earlier in the evening, why the same hard work had dealt so benignly with Martin and so uncharitably with herself. |
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| This fellow, Hawk, is monopolising your niece,' said Lord Frederick. |
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| If Lady Bertram, with all her incompetency and languor, could feel this, the inference of what her niece, alive and enlightened as she was, must feel, was elevating. |
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| Say you suspect me of being little better than a plausible impostor, and pity my unfortunate niece for being associated with such a rascal as I am. |
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| At half-past one o'clock Timothy drove Miss Polly and her niece to the four or five principal dry goods stores, which were about half a mile from the homestead. |
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| Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner,' interrupted Scrooge's niece. |
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| Crux on her suggestion, with the absolute certainty in her own mind that you have followed her advice without communicating it in any form whatever to me or to my niece. |
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| If they had said I was niece to a piping bullfinch, what would you care? |
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| He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the bill-hook. |
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