Nieces
[ni:siz]
Examples
- Her nieces and nephews can't have so much claim as my sister's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Do you think my dear nieces pretty? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My nephews and nieces! Jane Austen. Emma.
- And there's none more ready to nurse you than your own sister and your own nieces, if you'd only say the word. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She goes to Germany to-morrow with one of your nieces for a little polishing up in her education. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The children of a first cousin are your nephews and nieces, just the same as the children of your brothers and sisters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The spinster aunt uttered a piercing scream, burst into an hysteric laugh, and fell backwards in the arms of her nieces. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She has two nieces of her own. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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