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Example sentences for "both parents"

  • For this reason, then, I purpose, in dependence upon the living God, to go forward and to establish another Orphan House for seven hundred destitute children, who are bereaved of both parents.

  • I certainly did from my heart desire to be used by God to benefit the bodies of poor children, bereaved of both parents, and seek in other respects, with the help of God, to do them good for this life.

  • Accordingly, I went to the brother's room, and having agreed to pray about a kind reception from his father, and the conversion of both parents, we prayed together.

  • I believe that, altogether unworthy though I am of this great honor, he will condescend to use me further and more extensively than before in caring for destitute children who are bereaved of both parents.

  • The female as well as the male obtains food, the nest is built together, and the young are cared for by both parents.

  • If such reasonable conduct was for any reason impossible on the part of either or both parents, then the State must appoint a guardian to fill the place of one parent or both.

  • The downy young as soon as dried are led out of the nest and are closely attended to by both parents.

  • John Murdoch (1885) says: Both parents share in the work of incubation, though we happened to obtain more males than females with the eggs.

  • The young remain in the nest but a short time, where they are brooded by their mother and carefully tended by both parents.

  • Now when the scanty plumage of both parents is combined in the offspring the latter is bare-headed.

  • Some children have made an equally bad choice of their mammas and some appear to have made a doubly bad choice of both parents.

  • If their creative moments occurred hours or even days apart, then there was time for one or both parents to sustain a different relation to one, from that they sustained to the other.

  • Both parents should be well rested in body for several days before the initial of a new life takes place.

  • The arrangements one or both parents propose to make for the after care of the child or children.

  • Where the feeling is right, and both generations reasonable and just, there are still many problems of adjustment arising from an attempt to bring either or both parents of the married couple into the same household.

  • The question of the desirability of having children bear the same name as both parents is left for the most part in abeyance by those who thus advocate two names for the married couple.

  • If both parents be color artists or have a high grade of vocal ability or are littérateurs of high grade, then all of their children tend to be of high grade also.

  • Both parents unite in building the nest and in hatching and feeding the young.

  • Both parents (sexes ascertained by dissection) are in the typical tiphia plumage, without one particle of black on either head, nape, or back.

  • Where the coming child has not been desired by both parents, and where the mother resents her coming maternity, there is, of course, a totally different problem for which there is a very obvious reason.

  • The higher the evolution of the creatures, the more is the parental responsibility shared by both parents.

  • It must be admitted, moreover, that there are many families with one or both parents alcoholic in which the children are not mentally defective.

  • The hearts of both parents grieved as they thought on all she had endured, and for a brief period must still endure, but their path of duty once made clear, they swerved not from it, however it might pain themselves.

  • In the first place it shows that a species hybrid may inherit the distinguishing marks of both parents.

  • The second are balanced, as all the characters are present in both parents, but are found in a different condition.

  • We must always distinguish the qualities, which are the same in both parents, from those that constitute the differentiating marks in every single cross.

  • Practically but not absolutely equal, these two opponents always work together and give to the offspring a likeness to both parents.

  • Having, now, obtained rumpless hens, it became possible for the first time to test the inheritance of rumplessness in both parents.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both banks; both cases; both chambers; both cheeks; both continents; both countries; both flanks; both from; both girls; both inclusive; both kinds; both languages; both places; both political; both species; both their; both these; both were; bother about; caveat emptor; faced round; her breast; pack train; peculiar feature; something between; tiers etat