Sentences with phrase «told by a grandmother»

William was told by his grandmother that he had to wear a red Guards» uniform on his wedding day because of his honorary title as Royal Colonel of the Irish Guards.

Mothers of Modern Ireland: A People's History is an online film archive spanning 100 years of Irish history, as told by a grandmother from each of the 32 counties.

Seeking to tie together two cultures, the Houma, and her own, Henrot recalls a legend told by her grandmother, a storyteller from Brittany, France.

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He points out the family was never told the five of them could board unimpeded and be joined later by the grandmother.

They believe not because the priest or minister told them to have faith but rather because it helped their elderly grandmother avoid a long and agonizing death by taking her to heaven at the age of 51.

When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson — This award - winning book tells the story of a grand - daughter asking her grandmother the questions that lead to her learning about her family's experiences in residential schools.

By the time I was 13, however, I looked at my environment and told my grandmother, «I'm going to do something with my life.»

As she tells it, it was her grandmother's «spiritual obsession» and frightening talk of hell that drove her away from the church as a girl: «By the time I was in high school I grew contemptuous of religion and the people I knew who practiced it, although I took great pains to hide this development from Grangrandmother's «spiritual obsession» and frightening talk of hell that drove her away from the church as a girl: «By the time I was in high school I grew contemptuous of religion and the people I knew who practiced it, although I took great pains to hide this development from GrandmotherGrandmother....

So there is a young mom, 18 actually, very young mom, Darcy Pennington, and she was visiting her grandmother at Royal Liverpool Hospital, and she needed to feed her baby Vincent, and she was approached by a female nurse, and she was told to go to a private room, so that other hospital visitors didn't feel quote on quote «uncomfortable».

So, I am happy to tell you that I now am the grandmother to two little girls who are a little over a year old and they have been exclusively breastfed through the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and are still being breastfed by their mother, my eldest daughter, the one who wasn't breastfed.

In my grandmother's day they told women to pain, and to toughen up their nipples by scrubbing them gently with a nail brush every day from the sixth month of pregnancy - no joke, she gave me her 1940s baby manual to read, and it says just that!

After being told many times by my mother that I need to be super careful while pregnant as my mother and grandmother experienced pre-eclampsia, it finally happened to me at 33 weeks.

He told them about his maternal grandmother, who competed in bathing beauty contests in Los Angeles in the 1930s and was found naked and unconscious by railroad tracks after one such contest.

Begin by asking relatives to tell a story about a deceased grandfather or great - grandmother.

The whole family are around my grandmother cos yesterday was gone, and I can tell by her example that age is purely spiritual.

the woman behind the counter told me that the shop had been built by her grandfather in 1914 after he walked across the island from hilo with her grandmother.

Marjane's principles, as confident as she is that she's always right, aren't unshakeable, either: At one point, she angers her beloved grandmother, a stout, lively woman with refreshingly progressive views about life and love (her voice belongs to Danielle Darrieux), when she recounts how she saved herself from being arrested during a raid (she was wearing makeup, which is forbidden) by telling a police officer that a stranger on the street had looked at her salaciously.

This animated film tells the story of a lonely boy encouraged by his grandmother Madame Souza to become a champion bike rider.

The film opens with a voice over of Ramirez talking about the stories of the Devil that his grandmother used to tell him where it would always start with a suicide and then boom we get a suicide, then he would get a group of people together and they would all be killed by the end of the story.

Consider a sort of brilliant dinner - table conversation where Royal tells the family he has cancer, they clearly don't believe him (or care), he says he wants to get to know them before he dies, the bitter Chas says he's not interested in that, and Royal pulls out all the stops by suggesting they visit their grandmother.

Now she's driven by what her grandmother used to tell her: «Look at your parents, your aunts and uncles.

The stories students told were highly engaging and ranged from grieving over a lost grandmother to being surrounded by lions while in a tent on a safari to competing in a swim meet event for the first time.

In this literary text by Soyung Pak, a young boy and his grandmother who lives in Korea send each other pictures and gifts to tell the...

As an African - American, that also happens to be Muslim, I can recall my grandmother telling me back in the 70s that I'll always be judged by my appearance: neat, clean and ironed clothing; how neat my hair is; and whether my shoes were clean or not.

The story is told in the first person from the perspective of Sebastian Prendergast, a sixteen - year - old boy who is home - schooled by his determined - if not a little bizarre - grandmother in a geodesic dome.

On one occasion, my grandmother wrote, «I knelt by the chair in the kitchen telling the Lord our needs.

Lucy Kevin will be promoting her new eBook Gabrielle which is a modern day spin on the famous story «Gigi» (originally told by Colette), Gabrielle LeGrande knew her grandmother was a famous courtesan in France, many decades ago.

Adopt - a-Hunter was started by Woulfe Condra, who became a Monster Hunter fan by accident in 2004, after his grandmother bought him a copy of the original game because, as she later told him, «it had dinosaurs on the cover and you like dinosaurs.»

Separated from his parents at the age of two, Ji grew up on a collective farm outside Hangzhou where, in the absence of TV and radio, he was kept entertained by his grandmother's telling of ghost stories and folk tales.

Coming soon, Obama tells that story about this guy he knows who swears his grandmother tried to dry her cat by putting it in the microwave.

But, as we stood on the shore at Hawks Nest, near where she used to live, I pointed out landmarks from tales I'd told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...»

We stood on the shore at Hawks Nest, near where she used to live, and I pointed out landmarks from tales I'd told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...»

We stood on the shore and I pointed out landmarks from tales I've told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...