When these great-nieces discovered these abuses, they concluded that a system that could allow these abuses to continue for that many years was flawed. ❋ Harvey S. Jacobs (2010)
This situation only came to light when Loretta's two great-nieces were appointed guardian for Loretta. ❋ Harvey S. Jacobs (2010)
If I wasn't older, I wouldn't be able to look forward to seeing my great-nieces. ❋ Enid Borden (2011)
A few days after President Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, sons, daughters, great-nieces and other relatives of British officials stationed in Tibet in the 1930s and '40s gathered together to commemorate a unique anniversary - of the Dalai Lama's enthronement on February 22, 1940, in Lhasa. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Julia Domna and her female relatives have appeared to many modern historians to have held such political influence that the Severan dynasty has often been painted as a matriarchy, in which first Domna herself, then her sister Julia Maesa and great-nieces Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea held the apron strings of their baby-faced progeny. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)
A dedicated lover of nature, she took pains to catalog for her great-nieces and - nephews the wildflowers and birds that she observed on her nature walks. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So I tuned in to Mom's television, as sticky great-nieces and great-nephews clambered over me. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In any event, in a case of what must be either coincidence or serendipity or synchronicity, one of Corliss's great-nieces, Ned's cousin, now serves with me on my congregation's Worship Committee. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I talked to his niece and his three great-nieces yesterday, and they ` re all very shocked about what had happened. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She always set up house in London with a female companion, usually an aunt, whom she sent into the country to visit a nephew and a brood of great-nephews and great-nieces as soon as respectability had been established. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1997)
Two of my great-nieces: one got married in July or the first of August, and then another one got married about three weeks ago. ❋ Unknown (1976)
He always loved to play whist and in the last years of his life his nephews and nieces and great-nephews and great-nieces used to go often to play with him and pass the long evenings. ❋ Grace Dunlop Peter (N/A)
She shook her head sadly over her niece's spiritual state, and determined to save the souls of her great-nieces by instructing them herself as occasion should offer. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)
One of her great-nieces remembers seeing her towards the end of her life at a christening, 'a pale, dark-eyed old lady, with a high arched nose and a kind smile, dressed in a long cloak and a large drawn bonnet, both made of black satin. ' ❋ Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh (N/A)
Uncle Joseph had been unable to remain at the movies forever: people do have to go home eventually, especially when accompanied by thirteen-year-old great-nieces. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
Ah! If Timothy could see the disquiet England of his great-nephews and great-nieces, he would certainly give tongue. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
