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Sentences starting with father

Father liked his wives from the original States; but I was born in Chicago. [11]
Father and he were famous friends. [5]
Father and daughter walked up and down, hand in hand, under the great trees, and then they went to the bank. [9]
Father will be very angry. [9]
Father Peter claimed trial by the ecclesiastical court, but our other priest, Father Adolf, said an ecclesiastical court hadn't jurisdiction over a suspended priest. [5]
Father asked you to marry me, the day you took Mr. Stewart from the mob. [9]
Father Damon understood this, and he went away profoundly grateful for her forbearance of verbal expression as much as for her sympathy. [4]
Father seems to think that it is easy work that John can do, because it is near the house! [4]
Father Fairweather, as they all call him now, came in late with Father McShane. [6]
Father Pemberton was there, and Master Byles Gridley, of course, and the Rev. [6]

Sentences ending with father

Take her to your room and I'll go to Father. [2]
What happened to your poor father? [10]
Besides, but for your interruption, I should have said nothing about my father. [10]
That is--is he your father? [5]
This warrant's on your father. [9]
It will please your father. [4]
Quick, Adrian, call your father. [10]
Come now to your father. [10]
Few will resist you, but of those few the first will surely be your own father. [10]
I confess to you that I've been a little afraid at times that you'd take after Jonathan's father. [9]

Short sentences using father

Also, your father would profit. [11]
The imperial father was dead. [10]
Oh, please get up, father. [5]
I'll say father to--Jim. [11]
My father perceived this too. [10]
Lord Byron was the father. [5]
Father promised to take me. [9]
His father says so. [9]
Now, isn't that so, father? [11]
Is he pretty sick, father? [11]

Sentences containing father two or more times

Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
I have told you his father was a freedman of the former prefect Claudius Balbillus, and by the favor of the Roman his father rose and grew rich. [10]
And if that were to happen, if that--O father, father, only think of blind Helios and poor Berenice! [10]
He shut himself up at Hamley in his chemical place, like his father, like his father before him. [11]
His father could understand that as he chose, and doubtless he would understand it as it was meant, as a dutiful and affectionate desire on the part of a son to make his old father happy for a moment. [5]
This, it is true, was less out of regard for the fine work of art than because his father had always prohibited his doing so, and his father again before him. [10]
She found herself thinking more and more of her father, her father to whom she had never written one line since she had left the North. [11]
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. [7]
Austen went to the college which his father had attended,--a college of splendid American traditions,--and his career there might well have puzzled a father of far greater tolerance and catholicity. [9]
Yet my father says your father is half a Glipper,--[The name given in Holland to those who sympathized with Spain]--and a whole Papist to boot. [10]

More example sentences with the word father in them

He had loved Zoe in a way that in a mother would have meant martyrdom, if necessary, and in a father would have meant sacrifice when needed; and indeed he had sacrificed both time and money to find Zoe. [11]
Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
I will carry your young mistresses to their father and home again. [10]
After I left your uncle's house my father took me to Charlestown. [9]
So long as your surly old father sits over the vice, he only whistles a song and spares you his complaints. [10]
It should be your part to entreat her help for our father and brother; but you must not venture where Caesar is. [10]
It will please your father, but are you satisfied? [11]
Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
The Lord took your father to himself as a martyr; your mother has dedicated herself to Heaven. [10]
They won't know your father here--" If Stephen thought the Judge brutal, he did not say so. [9]
An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
I will remain your ally in this matter; for, as Cambyses' dying father appointed me the counsellor of his son in word and deed, I venture occasionally a bold word to arrest his excesses. [10]
Come, I think your account with my father is squared; and I want you to vote to put my father's son in Parliament, and to put out Barode Barouche, who's been there too long. [11]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
Dorothea received the young man with warm sympathy; she had heard that his father had fallen in the fight, and how nobly he too had distinguished himself. [10]
There was a young man cordially and unconcernedly shaking hands with her father and Captain Lige. [9]
Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
He concluded that young Brice was not the type to acquire the money which his father had lost. [9]
Your father needs you--I--I should never forgive myself if you left. [9]
I believe in you, Mr. Gridley, as I believe in my Maker and in Father Pemberton,--but, poor man, he's old, and you won't be old these twenty years yet. [6]
And now, since you will not put me quite at my ease by assuming, in words, that I have been properly 'chaperoned' here, I must inform you that my father waits hard by--is, as my riotous young brother says, 'without on the mat. [11]
Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
Your father, as you tell me, is at the war. [10]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
The elixir made you happy, my father, because you are good and pure, and because the beautiful, to the pursuit of which you have dedicated your life, ennobles everyone and makes every thing harmonious that comes from you. [10]
Brooks, I wish you could see the father, he's so typically unique--if one may use the expression. [9]
And I trust you can say, my lad, that you have made the best of your advantages, though I fear you are of a wild nature, as your father was before you. [9]
Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me--all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. [11]
My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
Whoever you are, you are a gentleman, and you might have been my father or hers --or hers. [11]
Let me ask you a question, Father Damon. [4]
She had never yet worked for her father with so much filial solicitude. [10]
Perhaps she might yet succeed in repairing the mischief she had done when she had allowed the emperor to sleep without giving one thought to her father. [10]
All was not yet lost; and he breathed more freely as he went back to the house where duty, and his anxiety for his father, required his presence. [10]
Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
His father must, yes, he must hear him, and when it grew dusk, he again sought the house to which he belonged, and from which he had been so cruelly expelled. [10]
It was fifteen years since Soolsby had been in this room; and then he had faced this man's father with a challenge on his tongue such as he meant to speak now. [11]
Sheila was two years old when her father disappeared, and fifteen years had gone since then. [11]
He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
There were many years in which my father believed the practices which he followed in behalf of your railroad to be necessary--and hence justified. [9]
And for ten years Bishop Dyer had been the closest friend and counselor of her father, and for the greater part of that period her own friend and Scriptural teacher. [13]
It is four years ago, shortly before your wedding with Mena; my father called me to play draughts. [10]
The very next year he stood in the place of his father who fell at Ascalon, deeply lamented. [10]
From Vienna Kutuzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew's father. [2]
He had been wronged in much by his father, and maybe--and this was the cruel part of it--had been unwittingly wronged, alas! [11]
If matters are wrong, I'm sure my father will right them when he knows the situation. [9]
Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
If I am wrong in making Franklin the father of our curious official clothes, it is no matter--he will be able to stand it. [5]
When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving well I will give you my hand to kiss. [2]
My father was wounded, and then the priest frightened them, and they gathered their dead together and buried them. [11]
For hours she would sit in reverie beside her sleeping father, her heart "over the water to Charley. [11]
She said she would say good-by to her father and uncle in the morning if it should still be their purpose to go, instead of tarrying awhile to see the city. [5]
He could and would paint Costa, his friend and teacher, Ruth's father. [10]
If her father would only receive him, he would find it no easier than she to deny him the compassion he so greatly needed. [10]
I repeat, I would not for worlds have asked my father or my mother or Dr. [9]
He said he would like to be a father to me. [11]
Besides, her father would last forever, if he was left to himself. [6]
The imperial crown would lapse to his brother; Ferdinand's son, Maximilian, now Charles's son-in-law, was destined to succeed his father, while the Infant Philip must in future be content with the sovereignty of Spain, the Netherlands, Charles's Italian possessions, and the New World. [10]
Ay, and he would have it, because it pleased him to have it--like his father before him. [11]
I think she would have gone but little had not her father laughed her out of some of her domesticity. [9]
What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]
Many a father would have been rich enough with forty. [5]
What was young Worthington doing in Brampton, and his father in the West on that railroad business? [9]
Nor were his worshipful father and his younger brethren one whit less dear to me. [10]
Yes, it was worship; it had been worship since the day she and her father had gone to the little whitewashed hospital. [9]
Let us not worry my father. [11]
His father had worn similar apparel when he confessed his love for her. [10]
There were three worlds here--that of Jack, to which Edith belonged by birth and tradition and habit; that of which we have spoken, to which she belonged by profound sympathy; and that of Father Damon, to which she belonged by undefined aspiration. [4]
At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside, and wished to speak with his father as soon as the latter was at leisure. [9]
She had quite won the old merchant's heart, and the enquiries for her father which he had set on foot. [10]
She was a woman and need wear no colors; and her enthusiasm for the old gods and Greek taste and prejudices were the delight of her father. [10]
But his father, without turning his head, replies, "No, they don't need salting any more 'n you do! [4]
Tomorrow you'll go with your father to see her. [2]
She was charged with the warmest messages from her father to the knight, and conscientiously delivered them. [10]
His eyes filled with tears, and he bent as tenderly as a father might over the pale face, and pressed a gentle kiss on the bloodless lips of the senseless youth. [10]
He continued presently with shortened breath: "I have evidence--I have evidence to get you back a good share of the estate, which my father will never miss. [9]
His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
I was talking with Ruth yesterday about her father, and she reminded me of his favorite saying, which I had forgotten long ago. [10]
It is all with our Father. [4]
Here we are with my father. [11]
I saw Doltaire with Juste Duvarney spring swiftly to the side of Alixe, and, with her father, put her and Mademoiselle Lotbiniere into the pulpit, forming a ring round it, and preventing the crowd from trampling on them, as, suddenly gone mad, they swarmed past. [11]
Amasis laughed heartily with his friends at Gyges' artifice, allowed the young heroes to mix freely with his family, and behaved towards them himself as a jovial father towards his merry sons. [10]
The younger Granvelle, with his father, had also been present at the performance of this motet of homage at Cambray, and respectfully confirmed his Majesty's remark, speaking with special warmth of the fervour and delicacy with which Jean Courtois had conducted the choir. [10]
She often argued with her father, and, if the truth were told, had had more than one victory over Judge Whipple. [9]
Anne Brinsmade came with her father and wondered. [9]
It was different with her father and mother. [11]
He found her with her father alone, her head at her knees. [11]
This letter--which ended with greetings to Paula, for whose father he was making diligent search--agitated Philippus greatly. [10]
And they said, with great excitement, while their hearts beat high, and the color in their faces came and went, Where is my father? [5]
Aunt Caroline said with feeling that Dr. Hilliard's death was a blessing, after all, since it brought a long-separated father and son together once more. [9]
She presented him with an only son, whom he named after his father Rameses. [10]
Eliab thanked him with an ardent glance, exclaiming: "Oh, would that Aaron, or Eleasar, or my lord your father were here in my stead, or would that Jehovah would bestow on me the might of their eloquence! [10]
It left her with a renewed sense of energy and restlessness, brought her nearer to high discoveries of mysterious joys which a voice out of the past called upon her to forego, a voice somehow identified with her father! [9]
Then, seating herself, with a melancholy glance at her embroidery where it lay folded together, she rested her elbow on the table and her head in her hand, considering to whom she could appeal to save her father. [10]
Thousand 'stapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And rack thee in their fancies! [6]
Why did she wish her father to know that he was sincere. [9]
A cup of wine, Pollux, for me and your father. [10]

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