grander

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The originality of this old "grandsir," as he was called, also interested them.

From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various

Job was back, a lad, in the old New England church; grandsir was there, and mother, and the old, old friends, and Ned Winthrop was poking him with a pin.

From The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Fisher, Frederick Vining

Seventoes lapped his milk happily; Benjamin, with his little contrite, tear-stained face, stood watching him, and grandsir sat in his arm-chair.

From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

For fifty years grandsir Cranston had lavished his love and care on the old Cranston farm, situated three miles from our place.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

His grandsir, finding a straight, long-necked gourd among those clustered on the vine over kitchen-house door, fashioned it into a banjo for the least one.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine