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Sentences ending with parent

Tom was introduced to the Judge; but his tongue was tied, his breath would hardly come, his heart quaked--partly because of the awful greatness of the man, but mainly because he was her parent. [5]
Jethro Bass had never taken any active part in politics, though some folks had heard, in his rounds on business, that he had discussed them, and had spread the news of the infamous ticket without a parent. [9]
But whence did he derive the powerful, but indescribable something which gave nobility to his head, and of which it was impossible to say whether it lay in his eye, or in the lofty brow, arched so differently to that of either parent? [10]
The ova are fertilised during the act of deposition, and are not subsequently tended by either parent. [1]
And when that's done I shall have to write a book called 'How to bring up a Parent. [11]
And the rest are resolved to defy our parent. [9]

More example sentences with the word parent in them

He is a young man of a sterling though undeveloped character, who has been hampered by an indulgent parent with a large fortune. [9]
A great green wreath, which must have cost the parent oak a large fraction of its foliage, was an object of special admiration. [6]
The son; however, who was not of age, was more unworldly and sanctimonious than his father; he always addressed his parent as "Brother Plum," and bore himself, altogether in such a superior manner that Ruth longed to put bent pins in his chair. [5]
I would sooner twenty times have a profligate like my Lord Sandwich for a parent than a milk and water sop like Manners, who will risk nothing over a crown piece at play or a guinea at Newmarket. [9]
You don't make trouble, you don't find fault with your vit--[Dr. Benjamin had schooled his parent on this point and she altered the word] with your food, and you know when you 've had enough. [6]
When the fire to the onthedownburninghouseresting Stork's Nest reached, flew the parent Storks away. [5]
He was forced to confess to his revered parent, and his esteemed friend Susan Posey, that his genius, which was freely acknowledged, was not thought to be quite ripe as yet. [6]
I say not this to cry him clown; I find my Shakespeare in his clown, His rogues the self-same parent own; Nay! [6]
Slowly split from the parent rock by the weathering process, and carved and sculptured by ages of wind and rain, they waited their moment. [13]
Have you beheld the flame leaping up to its parent the sun, and bearing with it, in the rising column of smoke, our prayers to the radiant Creator? [10]
If you do that, you will never have to give him the last and sharpest pain a parent can know-- I mean, the certainty that his son is dead. [5]
Now, he felt, that lost parent, whose image lived in his soul, was satisfied with him, and this gave him a sense of happiness which he meant to cling to and enhance by every thought and deed in the future. [10]
There was something so finely grotesque about the question and its parent suspicion, that he stopped to wonder and admire, and thus was he saved from laughing. [5]
To be a parent is almost to be a fatalist. [6]
A daughter under our arrangements is more likely to be a comfort to her parent in his declining years than a son. [4]
One knows the orders combined in this half- breed's architecture without inquiring: one parent Northern, the other Southern. [5]
The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars. [6]
They loved; and Love is the parent of endurance, the begetter of courage. [11]
The true realist is such a man as Parent du Chatelet; exploring all that most tries the senses and the sentiments, and reporting all truthfully, but soberly, chastely, without needless circumstance, or picturesque embellishment, for a useful end, and not for a mere sensational effect. [6]
The parent was, however, either proud of his daughter's acquirements, or he thought it a good opportunity to shame her out of her ignorance. [4]
He took down his own particular copy of the book, which was yet to do him honor as its parent, and began reading. [6]
The Bishop-he told his brother--had desired his immediate presence, to be congratulated on his victory; his first duty was to obey that mandate, and he should at once avail himself of its favorable opportunity to obtain for his deceased parent the honor he had earned. [10]
The bewildered, the helpless--and there are many--are torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left stranded in strange places. [9]
I thought I had sinned past forgiveness, and I was beyond description uncomfortable, for he had been like a parent to me. [9]
Governor White no doubt had the feelings of a parent, but he did not allow them to interfere with his more public duties to go in search of Spanish prizes. [4]
A kinder parent does not breathe than he. [9]
Perhaps George had caught sight of a face in the depths of the carriage, for he turned purple, and stood staring on the pavement after his choleric parent had gone on. [9]
There were the books, held up to common gaze, that a beloved parent had thumbed with affection. [9]
The thing to be concealed if possible was the building of the "raft," although this information was already in the possession of a number of persons, whose fathers might at any moment see fit to congratulate my own on being the parent of a genius. [9]
And he cries after his departing parent, "Say, father, can't I go over to the farther pasture and salt the cattle? [4]
Chatelet, Parent du, a realist, 326. [6]
If you were a parent, and were allowed to confide your daughter to Miss Turner, instead of demanding a prospectus, you gave thanks to heaven, and spoke about it to your friends. [9]

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