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Updated: June 6, 2025
It makes no difference how satisfied you may be with a prospective lake of fire for your enemies, the congregations you are to address will not listen to that style of sermon as did your grandparents. Only the ignorant minds to-day harbour ideas of cruelty and revenge in connection with a Creator. Thinkers find such theories inconsistent with religious belief.
J. K. Jerome once suggested that Life Insurance Companies should abolish the application form with its long list of queries concerning the ailments of the would-be insurer, his parents, grandparents, and other relatives, and substitute for it the German cigar test.
She was a quiet, modest woman whose happiest days had been passed in superintending the education of her children, Barine, the fiery Hippias, and the quiet Helena, who for several years had lived with her grandparents and, with faithful devotion, assumed the duty of caring for them.
Every now and then, between pauses, some masked and brilliant figure, like a bright ghost from the past, would steal in to look over their shoulders and whisper in their ears. But those grandparents weren't content to sit down and play cards while others footed it. Not they!
These titles would be used only until the man became a father. A child addresses, and speaks of, his father as TAMAN, and his mother as INAI or TINAN, and all four grandparents as POI. The parent commonly addresses the child, even when adult, as ANAK, or uses his proper name.
While seeking the architect, Dion had met Barine, who was on her way to her grandparents, and what he had dreaded the day before happened. The first glance from her eyes which met his forced the decisive question from his lips. In brief, earnest words he confessed his love for her, and his desire to make her his own, as the pride and ornament of his house.
Her voice had the harsh accents frequently heard in the tones of women whose strength has been pitilessly tasked; but her words were kind and tender, and Hosea forgot her appearance when she told him that her lover had gone with the departing tribes, yet she had remained with her grandparents because she could not bring herself to leave the old couple alone.
But I recall a characteristic discussion. "Please give me ten rupees for a hapless woman who has just arrived at the house." Mother's smile had its own persuasion. "Why ten rupees? One is enough." Father added a justification: "When my father and grandparents died suddenly, I had my first taste of poverty. My only breakfast, before walking miles to my school, was a small banana.
Caroline has always adored her uncle, her uncle who trotted her on his knee, her uncle who her uncle whom her uncle, in short, whose property is estimated at two hundred thousand. Further, your wife is well preserved, though her age has been the subject of mature reflection on the part of your son-in-law's grandparents and other ancestors.
Pretty good stowage room below decks? About so much, eh?" Mrs. Snow interrupted. "Zelotes," she said reprovingly, "ain't you forgettin' somethin'?" "Eh? Forgettin'? Heavens to Betsy, so I am! Lord, we thank thee for these and all other gifts, Amen. What did I do with the fork; swallow it?" As long as he lives Albert Speranza will not forget that first meal in the home of his grandparents.
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