Citations:aunts
English citations of aunts
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- 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- "True. You are a gentleman's daughter. But who was your mother? Who are your uncles and aunts? Do not imagine me ignorant of their condition."
- 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
- There all the children of the house were running out into the snow to meet their married sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the first to greet them.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors.