Aunt's partner, perhaps

Usage examples of uncle.

Kidd and throwed Uncle Esau face down acrost the saddle-bow, and headed for the hills.

Brownpony could only heap more ecclesiastical sanctions upon an already excommunicated and anathematized Filpeo Harq Hannegan and his uncle, the apostle of Platonic friendship and other deviations from orthodoxy.

Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.

The bankrupt gathered courage as he felt the indulgences shown to him, and he got into the coach with his uncle and Ragon.

Grace Bartram saw all three persons as she tiptoed into the room, but the only one to command her direct attention was her uncle.

Your Uncle Charles has already, for some months now, made a practice of swallowing three teaspoons of fish-liver oil just before he hurls the administrative skeleton bedward for the night.

But I myself bespoke the Vispi, imparting to them certain homely secrets that only members of the royal family know, and at last Uncle Palundo was convinced.

On his death without any male issue, the vacant throne was disputed by his uncles and cousins, and the popes most dexterously seized the occasion of judging the claims and merits of the candidates, and of bestowing on the most obsequious, or most liberal, the Imperial office of advocate of the Roman church.

And just as if he was performing in the circus, Bounder had gone down on his front legs as she swept off her hat in a graceful arc and bowed to her uncle.

She caught Gimme and Bounder, who had found his way back to the homestead after a week in the open, and was saddling them when she saw her uncle approaching.

She steered Bounder toward the house, where her uncle waited on the veranda.

Not too clear, thank heavens, for Jean-Marie Bourreau had brown hair and a more rugged build, but he reminded Tris a little of the face he saw in the mirror every day, and rather more of his uncle.

In conducting this work, Uncle Lance was the leader, and with the white element already enumerated, there were twelve to fifteen vaqueros included in the branding outfit.

David Silver was a plump young man with a pink scrubbed complexion, gold-rimmed pince-nez and his hair glossy with brilliantine and parted down the centre so that his scalp gleamed in the division like the scar of a sword cut He deferred courteously to his Uncle Aaron, and went to pains to make certain that both his guests were comfortable, that their chairs were arranged with the light from the windows falling from behind and that each of them had an ashtray beside him and a cup of tea in his hand.

Jehanne Greye Bulleyn Highclere regarded her uncle and guardian with a steady blue gaze.