Grand-daughter

Highly tenacious of preserving over the mind of Sir Aubrey an undisputed sway, Lady De Brooke had seen with great reluctance the ascendency his grand-daughters were acquiring, which she artfully hoped to repress by throwing discountenance on the visits of their father,[…]

She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.

The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. […] If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon her grand-daughter’s head.

Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf.

About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow.

My grand-daughter goes to the same school as your twin-daughter, so that is how I know you. Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name — Marilyn.

On 27 March, the House agreed to the recommendations of the Committee’s Fourth Report (HL 45) of that Session which proposed some revisions to the other categories of those allowed to sit on the steps of the Throne. Four categories of heirs to the peerage were allowed to sit on the steps: eldest sons of peers; eldest daughters or grand-daughters of peers if they were heiresses presumptive; grandsons of peers when heirs apparent and eldest sons of those having disclaimed a peerage.