"Avuncular" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was forgetting," he corrected himself, with an avuncular, ironic smile. "You're not supposed to have seen ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... never fear, would not find it difficult to pay the expenses of the voyage! Godfrey Morgan's whim would not cost the avuncular purse a single dollar! That is the way they do business ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne
... the poet referred did inspire monsieur Rigaud, of Lyons, to loosen his purse-strings. He wrote that he rejoiced to learn that Gustave was beginning to make his way, and enclosed a present of two hundred and fifty francs. More, after an avuncular preamble which the poet skipped—having a literary hatred of digression in the works of others—he even hinted that the ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... Sea Otter gracefully unburdened himself of a fervent curse directed at Shirley's avuncular relative; whereupon that young lady promptly left the window ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne |
