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Dictionary Entry
A father of someone's parent.
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. grandfatherclock grandfathergrandfather maternalgrandfather greatgrandfather paternal
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Poetry examples for “grandfather”
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Read full poem →dishonourable tilings of him and his family, particu-
larly that his grandfather, who had then been dead
seventy years, was a man so remarkably covetous,
Read full poem →of that name, at Gracedieu in Leicestershire, and brotlier to Sir Henry
Beaumont, Knight, of the same place ; his grandfather was John Beau«*
Read full poem →We got into the Model-T and drove over to see my Grandfather Leonard.
As we drove up and stopped he was standing on the porch of his house.
Read full poem →“TI was born in Nelson County, Ky., February 2nd, 1861,
on a farm owned by my great grandfather, Daniel Stapp,
a tanner. In 1829 he bought himself and a part of his
Read full poem →Was eighteen, just from High School, and one day
She came to see her grandfather and talked.
The old man always said he loved her most
Read full poem →With spots of blue that hunted in the ditch.
Her foxy Welsh grandfather must have paired
Beneath him. He kept sheep in Wales and scared
Read full poem →Like Children round a sire --
Grandfather of the Days is He
Of Dawn, the Ancestor --
Read full poem →Paris the highmJndedness, the human affections* and
the swift sympathies which her grandfather gave her
through long contact with sorrow and heart-break/'
Read full poem →And daisy flowers; the buds swell on the trees;
While oer the odd flowers swim grandfather bees
In the old homestead rests the cottage cow;