Neither this nor the darker secret of his treachery to his adoptive father cast any cloud over his habitual cheerfulness.
He turned, and saw the face of hisadoptive father, Baldassarre Calvo, close to his own.
At the end of the month the adoptive mother brings the girl home to her true mother and presents her with a pot of beer.
Such is the institution, ingeniously severe, of aunts or adoptive mothers.
In respect of adoptive children we have introduced a distinction, which is explained in our constitution on adoptions.
If, on the other hand, he died intestate, leaving as family heir an adoptive son, the patron could obtain even against the latter possession of the goods of the deceased to the extent of onehalf.
An adoptive child is in most respects in the same position, as regards the father, as a natural child born in lawful wedlock.
The adoptive father again may not emancipate them unless upon inquiry they are found deserving of emancipation, or without restoring them their property.
I deemed it more prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any search after him by hisadoptive father--the carpenter Wood.
I did not recognise him the first time he encountered me in Florence, but I know now that he is the servant who years ago accompanied me and myadoptive father to Greece, and was dismissed on account of misdemeanours.
He turned his head, and saw the face of his adoptive father, Baldassarre Calvo, close to his own.
The Assembly was finally triumphant; this new department was at last to be organized like those of the adoptive mother.
In some cases, the adoptive parents, hitherto childless, adopt a child with the proviso that if hereafter they do have begotten children, the present adopted one should rank as eldest son or daughter of the family.
He was an Italian, but in the employment of the French republic, and I have not been able since to credit with certainty his incorruptibility to his native or his adoptive country; I might easily be mistaken in deciding either way.
What love can he entertain for a country where his existence was a burthen to him; if he is a generous good man, the love of this new adoptive parent will sink deep into his heart.
Nero caused his adoptive brother Britannicus to be poisoned, through fear that he might prove a rival.
From this he was deterred both by the fate of his adoptive father and his own cautious, conservative character which gave him such a shrewd understanding of Roman temperament.
Marcus Aurelius at once took as associate in the principate his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, and for the first time two Augusti shared the imperium.
Tiberius left as his heirs his adoptive grandson Caius, the sole surviving son of Germanicus, better known by his childhood name of Caligula, acquired in the camps on the Rhine, and his grandson by birth, Tiberius Gemellus.
Although he was known as Caesar by his contemporaries, it is more convenient to refer to him henceforth as Octavian, to distinguish him from his adoptive father.
And from his adoptive father, the great Antoninus Pius, he had derived advantages still more considerable.
Though I deeply felt the pain of leaving my adoptive home, yet I fancied it would not become me as a man to show any emotion, still my voice failed me when my dear mother embraced me with tears in her eyes.
My adoptive parents also eagerly intreated me to come to them.
When I had lived about two years in their house, my adoptive parents saw their heart's desire fulfilled.
He remarked that her brow, and the shape of her eyes which had a distinguished melancholy and gentle expression in them, resembled those of his adoptive mother, who had so often looked at him with thoughtful affection.
Yes, Ueberbein had been the name of his adoptive parents, a poor, oldish couple of the inferior bank-clerk class, and he had a quite legal right to it.
The light, mercurial spirit which he had from nature and his unfortunate mother, and which he had retained in spite of the stern training he had received at his adoptive father's hands, was heavy-fettered now.
He went in, and the next moment he was in the arms of his adoptive father.
He crossed to the table, and leaning across it, until his face was quite close to his adoptive father's.
His adoptive father received him with open arms, and such a joy in his face, such a light in his old eyes as should have gladdened his visitor, yet only served sadden him the more.
Sir Richard, and his voice was full of horror now; he stared askance at his adoptive son.
Wrought upon by Everard's fanaticism that day in Paris some three weeks ago, infected for the time being by something of his adoptive father's fever, he had set his hands to the task in a glow of passionate exaltation.
The last letter he had received from Sir Richard--that day at Stretton House--had been to apprise him that his adoptive father was on the point of leaving town but that he would be returned within the week.
And when at last he left Rochester to return to town and his adoptive son, a coolness marked the parting of those two adherents of the Stuart dynasty.
Richard told his adoptive parents where he had been, and asked if he might invite his new friends for the next Sunday.
It was the main part of his creed, as gathered from his adoptive father, that a man must do something for his neighbour: Miss Wylder was his neighbour; what better thing could he do for her than make her free of the greatest joy he knew?
As a matter of course such young ladies are regarded and treated exactly as if they were children of the family; and they render to their adoptive parents the same service as thoughtful and affectionate daughters.
Until their majority they remain in the adoptive home selected for them by the authorities, and then, if they are not yet able to maintain themselves, they enjoy the general right of maintenance-allowance.
On the subject of the adoptive sonship of the just the student may profitably consult A.
The theological argument for our thesis is based on the character of the adoptive sonship resulting from the process of justification.
In virtue of the adoptive sonship effected by grace,(1067) the soul becomes a true “temple of the Holy Ghost.
These considerations also explain the points of resemblance between the adoptive sonship of God and the Holy Eucharist.
Now this act, like the other adoptive acts, can only be adopted by the parish meeting, and where adopted for part only of a parish, must be adopted by a parish meeting held for that part.
That was originally an adoptive act, but it is now extended to all districts in England and Wales.
Among the most important of the matters which concern a rural parish is the administration of what are commonly called the adoptive acts.
Again, the Chinese gentlemen allege that if the adoptive parent or master does not do his duty the actual parents have their remedy.
Now if the buying of adoptive children and of servant girls is to be uniformly abolished, it is to be feared that henceforth the practice of infanticide will extremely increase beyond what it ever was.
He therefore changed his praenomen to that of his adoptive father, and put his former nomen among his cognomina.
His birthplace was Comum, and he belonged to the Oufentina, the tribe of the people of Comum, as well on the side of his natural as on that of his adoptive father.
Much bustle ensued, and Dame Potcntia was so much occupied with the new-comers and their wants, that she had little time to bestow upon her adoptive daughter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adoptive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: choosing; constituent; discriminating; eclectic; elective; particular; selective
