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.