What is "grandsons"

Usage examples of "grandsons".

The grandsons and daughters-in-law had come out and were laughing out loud at the spectacle of the drunken heroes.

He was succeeded by his son Gayuk, after whose death the empire devolved to his cousins Mangou and Cublai, the sons of Tuli, and the grandsons of Zingis.

Such was the persecuting spirit of the laws of Theodosius, which were repeatedly enforced by his sons and grandsons, with the loud and unanimous applause of the Christian world.

Seven nephews ^1 of the childless monarch, the sons or grandsons of his brother and sister, had been educated in the splendor of a princely fortune.

Proteus thought that he did not seem especially formidable—until he recalled one of the king's grandsons earlier telling him: "I remember Uncle Apsyrtus—he seems very pleasant, most of the time.

According to the king's grandsons, Aeetes was now on his second (at least) wife (and queen), Eidyia, a woman of considerable beauty but who was seldom seen abroad.

Then in a grandfatherly way, he inquired of his newly-arrived grandsons how they had prospered on their long sojourn away from home.

He was listening to the noise of his grandsons around him, to the voices, the songs and the bursts of laughter, as though he were a huge plane tree in the rain, drinking up the water with happy roots.

The grandsons had sent for him, to take the measurements for the coffin.

The grandsons brought logs and brushwood and kindled a fire in the middle of the yard, to warm themselves.

The grandsons brought in jugs of wine, and now the funeral meal turned into a joyous feast.

Danielle whispered, watching as he disappeared from view with his four grandsons on his heels.

Danielle was uncomfortable with the reminder of her situation, and recalled too, Hunting Hawk’s remark about bad people and sending his grandsons to protect her.

He pointed to his daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, and great-grandchildren.

Two hours after midday the grandsons raised the coffin, in which the grandfather lay at rest, and bore it out the door.