Anne Douglas Sedgwick novel

Usage examples of tante.

And Tante Lulu, the old busybody, the instigator of this whole mess, was there, too.

JACQUES: Le bureau de votre oncle est right prochain de la table de ma tante.

It was in the small hours of the morning that Augusta was wakened by Tante Emma, wrapped untidily in a voluminous dressing gown and looking quite distraught.

Vroeger was ik ook in zorgen, eerst over mijn lieve papa, later over tante Vere, die ik in haar ziekte heb opgepast.

Tante Jeanne, overhearing him, would re-read the accident for his especial benefit, while the governesses recounted personal experiences among themselves, and Miss Waghorn made eager efforts to take part in it all, or tell her little tales of fairies and Cornish cream.

Aveva trascorso lì dentro tante settimane, smarrito in una sorta di delirio, ubriaco di misteri.

He wasn't sure which surprised him most: that his friends considered Valerie Breaux the answer to their prayers, the woman who'd called him a "crude Cajun asshole" more than once while they were growing up together in Houma, or that Tante Lulu feared this woman might be his soul mate.

But then, Tante Lulu and Charmaine had entered a belly dancing contest not too long ago.

Ma pen­sò nervosamente alle colonie di Marte, fondate tante e tante volte, e sempre abbandonate.

Tante Lulu stepped up to stand beside Charmaine, regarding Valcour like one of the cow pies that littered the Triple L Ranch pastures.

After Rusty, Clarence, and Linc took Jimmy out to the barn to feed the horses and do a last-minute check on the herd, she and Tante Lulu did the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen, chatting the whole while.

Preso dalla febbre romantica, disse al direttore della cappella che voleva venti dozzine di rose rosse, venti dozzine di garofani bianchi, un buon organista (niente musica registrata) in grado di suonare musica tradizionale, tante candele che l'altare potesse essere illuminato senza la luce elettrica, una bottiglia di Dom Perignon con cui concludere i festeggiamenti e un fotografo di prima classe per riprendere la cerimonia.

I was treated to a useless course of antibiotics and lay moaning with an ice bag on my groin while Tante Lorraine hushed the solicitous inquiries of little Jeanne and Margie.

Arrostii la carne esponendola al calore della fiamma appesa a una corda, come avevo visto fare tante volte in Inghilterra, piantando cioè due bastoni ai lati del fuoco e posandovi sopra un terzo bastone orizzontale, legando la corda a quest'ultimo e rigirando in continuazione il pezzo di capretto.

Ne con­cluse che la nebulosa era effetti­vamente una galassia, che conte­neva così tante stelle che le novae erano di conseguenza numerosis­sime.