Citations:Mawmaw

English citations of Mawmaw

• 1986, Dorothy Abbott, Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Univ. Press of Mississippi (→ISBN), page 594:

  Mawmaw loved to talk . She ' d talk to us all day , except for the hour or so she made us take naps in the afternoon . By the time I was six I knew all she could tell me about her life , the lives of people she ' d known , and of course , too , the lives  ...

• 2009, Lois Battle, Bed & Breakfast: A Novel, Penguin (→ISBN)

  While Josie put away the dishes, Mawmaw and the girls retired to Mawmaw's porch, Evie and Lila sharing the glider, Cam sitting on the steps, Mawmaw in her rocker, massaging almond oil into her cuticles and telling improbable but utterly ...

• 2015, Thomas Pierce, Hall of Small Mammals: Stories, Penguin (→ISBN)

  Mawmaw has done her best to clean the room. Vanilla candles burn on the washer. The plastic tarp crinkles under their feet. Dr. Sing opens his mouth but doesn't say a word. He kneels down by the mammoth, runs his hand through the hair, ...

• 2015, Tim Tingle, The Emerald Anaconda, AuthorHouse (→ISBN)

  Her Mawmaw had been so mean to her when she was a girl, that she figured that any kind of change in that mind had to be an improvement. While she was thinking this, her Pawpaw was making his way to the front porch, saying, “Well, I got to ...

• 1998, Deborah Smith, A Place to Call Home, Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated (→ISBN)

  Daddy said the Old Grannies could worry the horns off a brass billy goat , and Mama said anyone who lived in the house with her Mawmaw and Daddy ' s grandma could qualify as a saint . Or a lunatic . Great - Grandma Maloney was a frisky ...