"Granny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... woman came, and saw a lot of people about, she was frightened for she knew she had been unkind. But the boy said: "Now Granny, you needn't be afraid, I want you to show me the friend that has seven fingers and a ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... canner, exceedingly canny, One morning remarked to his granny, "A canner can can Anything that he can; But a canner can't ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... today who expect to get things without workin' for them. But this troop is not run on sich lines. Some day ye'll come bang up aginst another troop, and how'll ye feel if ye git licked. Why, when I asked some of you boys to tie a clove-hitch ye handed me out a reef-knot, which is nothin' more than a 'granny' knot, which any one could tie. I want yez to do more than other people kin, or what's the use of havin' a troop? So git away home now, fer we'll have no more fun until yez ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody
... "I am your granny, dear, and you will never see me again. But you must think of me sometimes, and remember ...
— When the Birds Begin to Sing • Winifred Graham
... set off to visit his Granny, and was jumping with joy to think of all the good things he should get from her, when who should he meet but a Jackal, who looked at the tender young morsel and said: "Lambikin! Lambikin! ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Collected by Joseph Jacobs
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