What is "aunts"

Usage examples of "aunts".

She heard Ban settle down as well, but her grandmother sat up, a small shadow against the starred sky, saguaro uncles and aunts rising up on the slope behind her.

In the desert she spent hours tracking down prickly-spined cholla spirits and the calm, slow-speaking saguaro aunts and uncles, she spoke to jackrabbits and phainopepla and Coyote Woman, and learned no more.

When they arrived there were two cars waiting for them, the second for Pretty and Sieke and the luggage, so that the aunts could be driven in comfort the few miles to St.

Pretty and Sieke left Prudence still at breakfast in order to get the aunts ready for that hour.

She contrived to do her face, run a comb through her hair and spray on a dash of Lumiere before she went back to the drawing-room, where she wished her aunts goodbye, then shook hands with the disapproving old lady and her timid companion before being ushered out of the house and into the Daimler.

They call them the Aunts and they go to them for medicines and stories and that sort of thing.

Tommy and look for the kind of deeper meaning that only the Aunts could unravel.

In time, his aunts would be counted as elders, too, but that day was still in the future.

Once Aunt Nancy took Ellie and Hunter away into the spiritworld there was nothing for him to do but sit on the front bumper of the pickup and watch his other two aunts wandering about between the ice-covered trees, casting for spoor like a pair of blue tick hounds.

And his aunts really did have the spooky powers everybody on the rez had always attributed to them.

Not like his aunts, who could sit there for hours waiting for whomever had come to them to explain what it was they wanted.

Tommy looked up when he heard his aunts returning to the pickup where he was waiting for them.

Picking it up, he looked out toward the trees where his aunts had been searching earlier.

Native women turned out to be a couple of his aunts, Sunday and Zulema.

You should have been warned that the Aunts take it for granted that their minds are read and their wishes carried out without the necessity of them needing to put them into words.