How To Use Auntie In A Sentence
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Auntie Ann put a huge wedge of fruit cake on my plate.
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Auntie and Uncle suggested she serve in the shop.
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After the girl's parents died, she was made a ward of her uncle and auntie.
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Tremain's novel is altogether jauntier, more various and energetic than these quotations imply.
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Tata short for tante or auntie, which is what most children call their childminder demonstrated once again that she can be a formidably tough negotiator.
Driving a hard bargain
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Remember the jauntier days when that angel of death, Jessica Fletcher, traveled the land and thwarted homicidal maniacs on Murder, She Wrote?
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While I was still in a dilemma as to whether I should ask them verbally if they are indeed cabbing, another dilemma stepped up in the form of a tyrannical auntie.
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Sunday morning and I was a little bit worse for wear… we got ready and Katie headed out to pick up Gareth's auntie for a meet the family meal… eek!
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The auntie in front turned back and smiled at me while I smiled back sheepishly.
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On th ground it isn't much, ued to help look after my aunties field ornament years ago and know hoe to tack, untack and rug safely etc.
Undefined
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The inspiration of the 'Singapore Aunties' project comes from our eccentric and eclectic south-eastern colloquialism.
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But Auntie has been having a lot of funny turns lately.
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Ye plaguesome brat!" cried Auntie; "there has Betty been seekin 'ye, and I hae been seekin' ye, far an 'near, i' the verra rottan-holes; an 'here ye are, on yer ain father's buryin' day, that comes but ance -- takin 'up wi' a coo.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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My characters always have lots of aunties, one of whom my hero always has unnatural feelings for, or very natural feelings for.
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I hopped into the backseat of my auntie Joanne's car, next to Carla, who sat in the middle of Crystal and I, and gave her a quick tickle.
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And Carrots stood beside auntie's knee, clasping his little mother Floss's hand tight, and looking up in auntie's face with those wonderful eyes of his, which auntie had said truly one could not deceive; and when he had been told all there was to tell, he just said softly, Oh poor mamma!
"Carrots": Just a Little Boy
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His uncle is dead, but his auntie still lives here.
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She's just joshing you, Auntie Rose is a nice old woman.
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During the war years, Auntie Flo always sent food in the Bundles for Britain from America and we had a tinned fruit cake, a much appreciated novelty.
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I remember Auntie Mame as having the first jockstrap joke I ever encountered.
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Eloise's Auntie Lucretia is coaching her in the finer points of being a vampire.
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Auntie and Uncle suggested she serve in the shop.
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Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge, more appropriately to their characters, would have had nervous breakdowns.
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As far as I know, ‘Auntie ‘did nothing all day but sit in a rocker and crochet multi-colored shawls and comforters and stuff like that.’
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Grandma, grandad, uncles, aunties and all the cousins are now tagging along too.
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On her head was a jaunty swimming cap no jauntier than herself when she urged the ten minutes in place of five.
CHAPTER XIII
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Even Auntie Alma got out of her wheelchair for a quick shimmy round the dancefloor.
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Education Bradford said: ‘We are working with Kyle's family, the school, and others who care for him, to assess his needs and decide whether or not he should be statemented, following a request from his auntie.’
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In fact, to borrow Auntie's words, I feel downright "boodie ruckus" today.
Hangin' Out At The Ozark County Line ***
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See, there where Auntie grinds lentils in the quirn, the squirrel is sitting with his tail up and with his wee hands he's picking up the broken grains of lentils and crunching them.
The Post Office
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Etta took the worn cap in her hand and looked it over while Auntie click-clacked with her crochet needles.
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Auntie became excessively pale, and was sometimes quite "distrait" and bewildered-looking, which was little wonder, considering all she had to do and arrange.
The Laurel Bush
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Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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They were satisfied to find none, and then divert all their attention to Auntie Jane.
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Auntie Hilda and Uncle Jack couldn't fuss over them enough.
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Auntie (a strong Anne Collins) and her nieces (Ailish Tynan and Helen Williams) injected rather too much ribaldry and suggestiveness into the proceedings; surely this community is rather buttoned up and not so free?
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The depths of poverty make the area easy pickings for brothel agents, or Aunties, as the procurers of young girls are known locally.
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The children ask their mother when "auntie" - what they called the maid, is coming back.
Justinker Diary Entry
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Your auntie is going over to Merrybrow Hall to-morrow to inquire about this little Master Phil from my Lady Lavander, for we think it's at one of her ladyship's farms that he and his nurse are staying, and if she hears that he's a nice-mannered little gentleman, and comes of good parents – why, missie, there's no saying but that you'll get leave to play with him as much as you like.
The Cuckoo Clock
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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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My auntie and uncle were with us as well, and it was awful, no one stuck up for me.
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But this elegant girl, educated by governesses and teachers, was a stranger to them; they could not understand her, and they instinctively kept closer to "Auntie," who called them by their names, continually pressed them to eat and drink, and, clinking glasses with them, had already drunk two wineglasses of rowanberry wine with them.
The Party
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But, Auntie!" cried Jennie, "he's not going to try to carry me pickaback, you know.
Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point
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All of which could be a buzzkill, but as counterpoint I offer my late Auntie Margie, who was deep into her 80s when she once regaled a tableful of my girlfriends with tales of her love life.
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I glimpsed Auntie sitting on the bottom stair as I flew past above her head.
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Yet the tone is jauntier, more direct, as if the speaker feels relieved to have confessed her desperate need for the cheater who has her under his spell.
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To the floating population of Tibetans, this ‘Benson Town Auntie’ is any-time mom with plenty of tender care to dispense.
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My Auntie at one point unpicked and re-tied a section of it because she had the wrong shade of pink.
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He tilted the hat to a jauntier angle and said, "How ever will the girls keep their legs closed when they see me walking down the street?
Rulers of the Darkness
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“Come here, boys, and let your gorgeous auntie grabble her hairy little monkeys!”
The Almost Archer Sisters
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My auntie and uncle were with us as well, and it was awful, no one stuck up for me.
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As Auntie Mame so colorfully stated, life is a banquet- and most poor devils are starving to death.
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If marauding gulls appear, the aunties sound an alarm and the young cluster tightly around them.
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A university drama department full of luvvies was hardly a challenging environment, and neither is the BBC (God bless Auntie, and all who sail in her).
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She was like a loving sister to many and a fantastic auntie to all her nieces and nephews.
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Auntie, auntie!" cried her nephew remonstratingly, "you mustn't tell secrets; I never meant Amos to know anything about that.
Amos Huntingdon
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I come from a large family stacked with women, consisting of four sisters and twelve aunties, who have taught me how to survive in a totalitarian world in order to survive in any world.
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‘Auntie Tina,’ a huge, jovial lady in a hot pink muumuu, strong-armed me into getting up for some island dancing.
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There is no argument from him when aunties bundle him off to the house, to quickly change his clothes, and then plunk him onto the back seat of the car next to his mother.
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‘Most of my uncles, aunties and friends were musicians, songwriters in their own right or heavily into music,’ he explains.
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At the breakfast table she eats jam insouciantly with her fingers, and as the crisis emerges, she is uniquely able to placate Claire's child Leo, demonstrating an intuitive wisdom and coming into her own as "Auntie Steel-breaker", the name conferred upon her by said nephew.
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Etta took the worn cap in her hand and looked it over while Auntie click-clacked with her crochet needles.
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We also believe there are some real risks in opening up the court to so many more parties - aunties, uncles, stepbrothers, stepsisters, grandparents.
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What’s more, it’s jauntier, more likeable Keane: piano-led indie pop with a pretty melody and an obvious debt to seventies soft rock.
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Uncle Hugh and Auntie Jan went out to Africa as missionaries and used to visit my mother and our family when they were over on furlough.
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Sorry, Auntie, but I can't understand why you would call Judith Bingham's Mass "shriekingly unattractive".
London on a summer Sunday...
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The inspiration of the 'Singapore Aunties' project comes from our eccentric and eclectic south-eastern colloquialism.
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No. He isn't what I call a restful man," Auntie said, and spread herself more at her ease in her chair.
A Sheaf of Corn
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Also my auntie went on the Pill and she became infertile.
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Auntie Ann put a huge wedge of fruit cake on my plate.
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The sign was jauntier and more optimistic than the building.
Vicious Grace
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Her family said one of Auntie Dottie's last wishes was to be dressed in her favorite white mu'umu'u -- which she was.
KITV.com - Local New
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Well, tell auntie I got carried by -- _carried by!
Glory and the Other Girl
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Production credits p. c/distr: Kalem Co, p/d: Sidney Olcott, c: George Hollister, sc: Gene Gauntier, scenic dsgn:
The Bioscope
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I had grandfathers and grandmothers and cousins and uncles and aunties, everyone was there.
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After half an hour of it, you were almost glad to be back in the company of sozzled aunties, joining in a spirited rendition of the hokey-cokey.
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I desperately dosed myself up with just about everything I could find in the magic medical pack the BBC issues to journalists travelling abroad - antibiotics, anti-emetics, Auntie Ediths - you name it, I took it.
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She organized a neighborhood association and held meetings in the local church and at night she and Auntie Henrietta fastened on orange pinnies, took to the streets with bullhorns and flashlights.
Strangers at the Feast
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The children ask their mother when "auntie" - what they called the maid, is coming back.
Justinker Diary Entry
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When I'm home, I see my mum, my dad, my nan, my grandfather, my auntie and my cousins every day.
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Released under Brian's Auntie Flo alias, Goan Highlife will doubtless be the star of the show, although Deep Teknologi's T Williams will be dropping by with a few choice cuts to exercise your dancing shoes.
Clubs picks of the week
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Eagle Jack adjusted his derby to a jauntier angle.
Dead As A Doornail
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And we've all been agonizing for the past week about whether or not a weird political mutation called Nick Griffin is really Public Enemy Number One, having been ordained as such by the multi-culti, metrosexual, arty-farty literati and Auntie Beeb's Lord High Inquisitor David Dumblebollocks, because Griffin insists that a tribe known as the English still actually exists in England and is worthy of representation in Parliament.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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While the high school kids got a kick out of the sweet, level-headed auntie who used to knit them Christmas stockings cursing like a sailor in the middle of the street, this latest bout made me wonder whether we needed to find a better situation for Billie.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
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And my auntie is the most -- the most famous singer of all time in my country.
CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2009
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Later, my auntie refused to tell me Ba's real narne because he left her That was my auntie'& revenge.
The secret sense
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BBC squawker Jonathan Pearce has apparently been passed over for the gig as Auntie's top football commentator, and it might be a good job if his blog on the Beeb website is anything to go by.
TEAMtalk Football News
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There were a lot of conversations about auntie or granny snuffing it so the kids could divvy up the profits from a sale.
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He regrets this, but insists, ‘I didn't come from a close family and I never felt any particular irrational impulse to be nice to old aunties.’
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Auntie May, who was the manageress of a bookshop, sent me supplies of new books and comics.
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He will insist that in some fantastic way his Auntie Flossie’s death is mixed up with our eggbeater, which is what we ambiguously call our magnetic fuse.”
Died in the Wool
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My Auntie Ruth drilled into me, at a very early age, never, ever to open the door to anybody I didn't know.
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Auntie Muriel buys the cheapest gauze and spends the rest of the subsidy on red wine.
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But Canada proved to me that red, orange, and yellow trees look jauntier and brighter where they are set off with a touch of green.
Peeping in Peace
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Notable and new, to me at least, was the spectacle of matronly gents dressing up as their mothers, aunties and schoolmarms in dowdy conservative outfits, cheerlessly dispensing disapproval over all.
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Even easily anticipated situations have revealed Auntie to be timeless, ageless and fundamentally clueless.
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The slivovitz was a great hit, tho Auntie Wanda insisted they all have a drink to celebrate Bec arrival.
Briar Rose
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Hust the number plate to buy Auntie for Christmas.
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It was soon thereafter, she became an honorary auntie to the rest of us ♥ Not only do the two of them team up for THE most amazing holiday goodies, Aunt Karna is also far and away the best crafter on the planet!
Aunt Karna Rocks My World « Bodhicitta
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But in Auntie Eeee's opinion, only a flimflamming trollop would sell it.
E. Jean Carroll: How to Sell Your Maidenhead
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I know my Auntie in particular was worried that they were rushing it, maybe because she and Ginger's dad split up last year after a whole bunch of difficulties.
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It's brighter and jauntier than usual.
Times, Sunday Times
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My partner asked for Auntie Maria's Stifado: topside of beef cubes cooked in a casserole with onions, red wine vinegar and tomatoes served with rice and chips.
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o 'me, "continued Captain Bunker with a tentative chuckle," sort o' pretendin 'to hand yo'r auntie to Kernel Marion for -- for his lady love!
Sally Dows
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Geez–the fuckin ingrateful Iraqis are pissed cause we blew up their houses and killed their aunties–INGRATES
Firedoglake » Shameful
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The girl calls her auntie instead of by her name, even though she tries to reassure her niece, tells her repeatedly it's all right, her name is enough.
Afternoon Chores
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Matilda, who early on threatens to be a real pistol of a character, becomes the stereotypical, eccentric spinster auntie who teaches her charges useful life lessons in between subjecting them to her annoying habits and quirky behavior.
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Ma say Auntie poor we weak creeter, couldn't strain.
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Once she had successfully entered and gone inside the hotel, Auntie Kim glowered at the trio.
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Auntie and Uncle suggested she serve in the shop.
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Auntie Pat is getting a little tipsy again.
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The bedclothes stirred and Auntie smiled sleepily and he climbed up to have cuddles.
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‘He told her that her slip was showing,’ Auntie Rose explained smiling happily at the memory.
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But Carrots 'faith in auntie and Sybil was unshaken – and his childlike confidence less susceptible of chill.
"Carrots": Just a Little Boy
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But so far as the stage "masher" is concerned, dear and anxious mamma, auntie, or sister, don't worry about the safety of your actress to be.
Stage Confidences
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Auntie Ann put a huge wedge of fruit cake on my plate.
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Auntie told me not to run, " he explained, " on account of my asthma. ”.
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It was always such a relief to get back to Auntie Lizzie's so we could use her eiderdown quilts to slide down the stairs (sit on the top step, at the end of the quilt, fold it over your feet, hold both corners and launch yourself over the edge).
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Auntie," and Kit put on his most wheedlesome smile, which was always compelling, "if you'll just let me stay till the first guest comes, I'll scoot out at once.
Patty's Suitors
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Her care for children led to her being nicknamed Auntie Joan.
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Aunties and uncles, grandmas and grandads all lived within walking distance and it was true to say that friends and family were one and the same.
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There to encourage him were all his aunties and their respective partners, his extended family and his little brother Ben, who were all so proud of his radio debut.
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It's been the stock question of doting aunties for aeons.
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(It really is “gaudium et utiliis!”) (via Offworld, screenshot by Auntie P) posted by Andrew Simone in awesome, games, language | * | comment
Errator Sum | clusterflock
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You get to watch all your old uncles and aunties get way too turnt.
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Another variation on this sportswear idea is simply an untucked long-sleeved shirt — with the sleeves rolled up to mid-arm for a jauntier look.
Clothes That Make Men Look Slimmer
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Aunties and uncles, grandmas and grandads all lived within walking distance and it was true to say that friends and family were one and the same.
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I called her auntie, then; and didn't know a bit that she wasn't my aunt really.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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Views: panoramicAuntie tweezers tales of boggling provenance from antique archives; adds F Bruce in provocative knitwearMaximal corporate hubris x incentivised boardroom intransigence = 140% idiotainmentLavish biography infuses wry top notes with curlicues of smoky boffinry.
TV turn-ons and turn-offs
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There was, indeed, a danger -- his seniors said so -- of his developing into a regular "Auntie Fuss" of an adjutant, and when an officer once takes to old-maidism there is more hope for the virgin of seventy than for him.
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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And I couldn't help thinking – with the surefire horrors of the Great War to come – that JK might have peaked a little early, blubbing-wise, not least since Auntie Marian said Louis had been awarded the Légion d'honneur, which presumably wasn't for his mastery of the cheeseboard.
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He then rang his aunties, an uncle and his grandad who came to the rescue.
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Ai haz juss had teh perfick auntie doat 2 splorts – an ower an a haff wiv a nayburr hoo wantid me to lukk fings up awn teh Innerchoobs fur him.
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But when you see your grandma or great-auntie wearing a lovely old-fashioned breastpin, bound around with gold, and holding a pink stone, shining like crystal, with a white carved head or other figure standing out from the lower stone, you may know it is a very valuable ornament, and was probably made from one of the finest shells found in the sea.
Lord Dolphin
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If marauding gulls appear, the aunties sound an alarm and the young cluster tightly around them.
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Chicks in creches need no more from their aunties than protection.
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Auntie Lizzie lived in a house with a black door that had an oval window in it at the top, her front garden had a steep slope and concrete steps with an old persons tubular handrail.
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Alicia told me to thank you again for sending the aunties over to help at night while she bathes the boys and gets them to bed.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
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I wanted to see the naughty spot on it," answered mamma, "I heard it call auntie a _name_ just now, and I wanted to tell you if I ever heard it call any one that again, I should put something on the spot to cure the naughtiness.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879
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Aunties and uncles, grandmas and grandads all lived within walking distance and it was true to say that friends and family were one and the same.
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An even greater difficulty with Doreen Kartinyeri's claim is that Auntie Rose, Nanna Laura and Grandmother Sally, the three women she named as her informants, were all Christians.
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March 28th, 2008 12: 23am as you a regular part of the BBC radio programme the Moral Maze how do your views on that wicked institution known as auntie square with continuing to appear as a guest?
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Indeed, they are also taking on the role of the uncle or auntie, ticking off youngsters who are indulging in a spot of horseplay in the street.
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She taught Harvard medical students, some of whom impolitely called her "Auntie Gedda" behind her back and went on to greater fame.
We Remember - Gertrud C. Reyersbach, 1907 - 1999
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Meanwhile I have very fond memories of both my granny Mary Ellen and my Auntie Mary Kate.
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Vigil-aunties," read one headline, referring to the South Asian term "aunty" for older, bossy and often judgmental women.
NYT > Home Page
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Have a great time with 'Auntie Cécile' and don't worry about what you've heard regarding ... "chirurgie".
Machine à coudre - French Word-A-Day
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Following Khan's program, one headline in a local paper called the host and the other women who appeared on the show "Vigil-aunties," referring to the South Asian term "aunty" for a bossy older woman.
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On 9 July 2003 he was released on parole without conditions, under the understanding that he would be living with his auntie.
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Just because you hate the shirt your auntie gave you, it does not mean the shop is honour-bound to take it back.
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Fat wagged his head a few times to check that it was still there and said, in his imitation English, 'Missa Stuss, Auntie, she say she ha' bad head, prease you no tor 'so row', she want go slee '.'
A Rude Awakening
