Aunty

Examples

• Won't you ask aunty to come and cut it for me? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It's a dreadful shiftless one, said aunty. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I'm not a show, Aunty, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticize my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was a very easy way, aunty, said Eva. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Papa, I just want aunty to cut off some of my hair;--there's too much of it, and it makes my head hot. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They are all yours, papa, said she, smiling--yours and mamma's; and you must give dear aunty as many as she wants. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Well, aunty, I did lose a great many; and then, when we stopped anywhere, papa would buy some more of whatever it was. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Has Aunty relented? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yes; and what is funny, Aunty, I had it on all night. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He can't know how near we are coming, said aunty; hadn't you better run and speak to him? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Do step on the guards, aunty. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Why, aunty, we are only going up home;--what is the use? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• So you did--so you did, honey, said Aunt Chloe, heaping the smoking batter-cakes on his plate; you know'd your old aunty'd keep the best for you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If Aunty does not relent, what shall we do? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now, Mrs. Smyth, you are to go under our charge, and be our aunty,--you mind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Edited by Fergus