"Nanny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had that if old Nanny Cwmgwyn hadn't given it to me just now. But I'll tell you my story ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... not know that you are acquainted with her, but you should remember her mother, old Nanny Tobert, as she was called; she kept a little confectionery—almost every ...
— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb
... was, to be sure, the kind, decent man.... And Sorca Reilly to be trying to get him from me, and Kate Finnegan with her bold eyes looking after him in the Chapel; and him to be saying that along with me they were only a pair of old nanny goats.... And then me to be getting married and going home to my own little house with my man—ah, God be with me! and him kissing me, and laughing, and frightening me with his goings-on. Ah, the ...
— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens
... and lasses sae braw, And his bare lyart pow he smoothly straikit, And looked about, like a body half glaikit, On bonny sweet Nanny, the youngest of a': "Ha, ha!" quo' the carlin', "and look ye that way? Hoot! let nae sic fancies bewilder ye clean— An elderlin' man, i' the noon o' the day, Should be wiser than youngsters that come ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... a pound in a letter, only Nanny Brooks said I owed some to her for my victuals, and I have not much of it left, and bread comes dear, so when Toby brought me this bit of meat I was glad of it, sir, but I would not have ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
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