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Sentences ending with paternal

It had the slight flavour of the superior and the paternal. [11]
How paternal! [11]

Sentences containing paternal two or more times

It implied that Mr. Worthington had allowed Bob to remain away on a sort of probation; it implied that it had been dictated by a strong paternal love mingled with a strong paternal justice. [9]

More example sentences with the word paternal in them

She felt that with the death of this youth--so gifted, and so dear to her--a corner-stone had been torn from the paternal house. [10]
So he gazed with tender anxiety at the features convulsed by pain and, when she at last opened her eyes, smiled at her with paternal affection. [10]
She upbraided Coello with being faithless to his paternal duty, and called him a thoughtless booby. [10]
And even those who did see it would not have been much stimulated by it, for what had they to do with Raevski's tender paternal feelings when their own skins were in danger? [2]
After the bridge which united him to his uncle and paternal friend had been so suddenly broken, it was you who rebuilt it. [10]
He had given up the legal profession to take charge of his somewhat impoverished paternal estate, and soon transformed it into one of the most productive in the whole neighbourhood. [10]
She pressed the token, which was sewn into a little bag, to her lips, and thought of her paternal home, and her brothers and sisters. [10]
But not so thinks the paternal bishop, who waves a blessing, which I catch in the flash of the enormous emerald on his right hand. [4]
He carried also the paternal watch, a solid silver bull's-eye, and a large pocketbook, tied round with a long tape, and, by way of precaution, pinned into his breast-pocket. [6]
Well, I left the paternal roof and wandered in other lands, and learned to think in the words of strange people. [6]
A drop of the paternal blood must have found its way into the mixture. [10]
Rest assured, therefore, that we shall be found always just and paternal in our transactions with your government, and that nothing will be omitted on my part to make your residence in this capital agreeable to yourself and satisfactory to your government. [7]
Count Lanoi announced that his Highness's travelling escort was ready, and the Emperor, with an air of paternal affection, bade the younger sovereign farewell. [10]
I say I take an interest in our Scheherezade, but I rather think it is more paternal than anything else, though my heart did give that jump. [6]
What paternal gentleness Rudolph's deep tones expressed! [10]
There seemed no reason why she should have been called the little widow of Jansen, for she was not small, but she was very finely and delicately made, and the name had been but an expression of Jansen's paternal feeling for her. [11]
He had his paternal rights even here--Els and Eva were not parentless orphans. [10]
At this the others could not check their tears; it was Paula who had to comfort and soothe them, by telling them that she had found a paternal friend in the Kadi who had promised to intercede for her with the Khaliff. [10]
At such times of stress some of my paternal Scotch crept into my speech. [9]
No warm impulse of paternal tenderness stirred the breast of the man whose heart was hardened, who understood how to divest himself of the warmest love as he now cast aside the crown and the purple of royalty. [10]
With the instinct of paternal love, he probably perceived that she was agitated, but he had so little idea of the mental conflict which had taken possession of her soul that her anxiety pleased him. [10]
But she was not satisfied, she was not happy, for he showed her only tender affection or paternal kindness, and she wished to be loved differently. [10]
You may be nine tenths paternal at one period of your life, and nine tenths maternal at another. [6]
He is certainly mutely accusing me of vexatious interference with his paternal rights, and yet he may be sure that I feel a special regard for him. [10]
When we cut loose from the paternal leash, so to speak, we had a bit of boundary-riding, rabbit-killing, shearing and sun-downing--all no good, year by year. [11]
The earl asked leave of the prince to make an attempt to regain his paternal estate. [4]
The Doctor read his sermon with a pleasant, paternal interest: it was well argued from his premises. [6]
This he considered his paternal duty, for already he saw in imagination the counts and knights who, after the Emperor and the Queen had loaded her with praise and honour, would wish to escort her home. [10]
Only the simple heroic greatness and the paternal dignity of an Emperor William could have repaired it. [10]
There had been hardness in that, though it were the cry of a lacerated paternal affection. [9]
One of these gentlemen accounts for the fact by the wide difference in colour of the hair on the paternal and maternal sides of his family. [1]
This done, he gave them a paternal benediction, the sturdy Antony sounded a most loving farewell with his trumpet, the jolly crews put up a shout of triumph, and the invincible armada swept off proudly down the bay. [4]
Brought by H. Frederic Sprowle, youngest son of the Colonel,--the H. of course standing for the paternal Hezekiah, put in to please the father, and reduced to its initial to please the mother, she having a marked preference for Frederic. [6]
First, she had down from the garret a capacious trunk, of solid wood, but covered with leather, and adorned with brass-headed nails, by the cunning disposition of which, also, the paternal initials stood out on the rounded lid, in the most conspicuous manner. [6]
He was growing comfortable-looking, if not exactly stout; prematurely paternal, oddly willing to renounce the fiercer joys of life, the joys of acquisition, of conquest, of youth. [9]
Inhabitants of the city and villages, and you, workingmen and artisans, to whatever nation you belong, you are called on to carry out the paternal intentions of His Majesty the Emperor and King and to co-operate with him for the public welfare! [2]
A paternal administration, chosen from among yourselves, will form your municipality or city government. [2]
The prince's costly bridal presents had been entrusted to Rhodopis' care, and Bartja had insisted on renouncing the paternal inheritance which belonged to his bride and on transferring it to Rhodopis, notwithstanding her determined resistance. [10]
And it must be said that, if she did not excite passionate affection at first, she enlisted paternal and maternal pride in her career. [4]
Refusal of his assistance would have been an insult to his paternal friend and guardian. [10]
He did not ask me anymore questions about my hereditary predispositions on the paternal and maternal sides. [6]
His paternal heart ached as he saw Uri retreat, then as he pressed forward again and repelled the foe by a well-directed assault, it throbbed joyously, and he would gladly have shouted words of praise. [10]
My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. [7]
Even I feel a drawing toward him--the paternal blood in me making its claim. [5]

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