grandmamma

"Grandmamma took care of me, but she was mean to other people, sometimes.

Grandmamma persisted in deferring the question until the next morning.

"I miss Grandmamma sometimes, and my horses, but nothing else.

"I had lost my grandmother two years ago, and was at the deathbed with Grandmamma.

"I think grandmamma might have taken me to the Crystal Palace," she said.

I want you to give me a piggy-back and come out with grandmamma to see how nice everything is."

"If my grandmamma was here, she'd be telling me to go find a bar of soap to wash these people's mouths out with."

Beaming, the girl handed the coin to her grandmamma.

I would be grateful if you and your grandmamma would answer a few questions, that's all."

"See here," she said, turning over the cover, "this belonged to my great grandmamma.

Janet had slept with Grandmamma and kept a lamp burning on the chimney, so both saw it.

Alice and Emma and grandmamma paraded the pages in turn.

I have got that much out of grandmamma, if I have got nothing else.

"Grandmamma sometimes listens at doors," she whispered; "I don't want her to hear me."

"Do you remember what grandmamma said?"

One day I found Grandmamma very low and nervous, and evidently with something on her mind.

Wasn't she a second mother to her since the first had gone to rejoin Papa and Grandmamma?

"Grandmamma, what great legs you have got!"

Grandma Morton was: my wonderful grandmamma, now with God.

"My grandmamma would get angry, sometimes, like when people meant to hurt us, but you could tell she really meant it.

Grandmamma, before I go to bed, I've something to ask Samuel."

And grandmamma took one of mamma's towels.

Now go run to grandmamma.

Middlemarch (the original beach book and grandmamma of all soap operas)?

And grandmamma is worse still.