One was a typical American girl, with almost a Gibson face; the daughter of the house, I decided.
My daughter and the maid are listening to the music and I have nothing to do until my Captain comes to meet me.
I certainly never realized the far-reaching social and ethical value of the dentist until I saw the contrast between the returned immigrant, especially the contrast between his wife and daughter and the women who had remained at home.
I'd have said the same thing to my own daughter if I had one.
A man works his fingers to the bone for his family, and then his own daughter nags him.
Babe had as useless a trousseau, and as filled with extravagant pink-and-blue and lacy and frilly things as any daughter of doting parents.
You knew, somehow, that the little Cubist daughter had no mother, and that the father's artist friends made much of her and that she poured tea for them prettily on special days.
And quite simply he addressed his dead mother, as though she were beside him, asking her if she could desire to have a daughter sweeter or more gentle.
She felt that, although his name was not at the head, he would know that the verses were addressed to him, and that it was his daughter Fanny who had written them.
His daughter Fanny glanced up from the work-basket which her mother had placed ready for her the moment that the breakfast-table had been cleared, and the expression upon little Miss Burney's face was one that had something of fright in it.
Burney's daughter would have an assignation with Signor Rauzzini in such a place and in the midst of such a company!
Fanny Burney was a dutiful daughter and she had nothing of the cynic about her, but she was well aware of the fact that success would be regarded by her father as justifying an experiment that failure would have made discreditable.
Burney has a daughter whose words are to me as precious.
He had heard of fathers and even brothers waiting upon young men who had acted toward a daughter or a sister pretty much as he had in regard to Miss Burney.
This was not a time for disguise, and I told her plainly what I thought of risking her daughter out there.
Her own are in the school-room; but there is a step-daughter who is much admired.
She pressed her daughter closer, and felt rather than heard a little sigh; but all that Mary said was, 'Then I had better not think about it.
After a quarter of an hour spent in hearing her praises from Miss Faithfull, he betook himself to Mrs. Ponsonby's, not quite without embarrassment, for he had not been alone with the mother and daughter since August.
She has consulted the surgeon of the Libra, a very able man, who tells her that there is absolute need of good advice and a colder climate; and Ponsonby has consented to let her and her daughter come home in the Libra.
Mrs. Ponsonby was loth to contemplate that contingency, though in all obedience, she exposed herdaughter to the infection.
Worthy of the daughter of the Pendragons,' said Louis; 'but it lost half its effect from being stifled with laughing.
I beg your pardon, Mary; I am sorry your daughter should have been so treated.
Tranquillity was such a boon to that wearied spirit, each day was so much gain that went by without the painful, fluttered look of distress, and never had Mrs. Ponsonby had so much quiet enjoyment with her daughter and her aunt.
He had never dreamed that his father would interfere in such a matter; and if the truth must be told, he was already engaged to Miss Pussy, the eldest daughter of old Mrs. Hare of the Ferns.
Why her father, a kindly soul who had risen from hod carrier to contractor, happened to choose Leslie Manor for his youngest daughter must remain one of the unanswered questions.
But that's no way for Anderson's daughter to take it.
What a singular chance that had brought her here to his home--the daughter of a man who came to demand a long-unpaid debt!
His daughter loosened her arm from round him and turned her face toward Kurt.
Anderson clambered into the car beside his daughter and laid his big hands on the wheel.
He helped his daughter into the car, and then put on his long coat.
Her words and the cool little laugh suddenly brought home to Kurt the immeasurable distance between him and a daughter of one of the richest ranchers in Washington.
He has said that to her, the common-place daughterof the "Paesano" Niccolo Gallioti.
During this conversation, Lucy, the recently betrothed daughterof the manufacturer, sat listening in an adjoining room.
He loved his onlydaughter with a love that was akin to idolatry.
Here she comes now," said Mrs. Denison, turning to kiss the white forehead of her daughter as she entered the room.
His wife, an intelligent woman, the daughter of a doctor in Basle, and his four children, wept loudly, as the beloved father was carried unconscious into the house.
He had been anxious to take out an insurance policy for his daughter before it became too late for him to do so; but, he affirmed, he did not kill his master for the purpose.
Miss Trowbridge is the daughterof Mr. Trowbridge's brother, who died years ago.
One day her father sent for his daughter and said, 'Janet, ye may leave the castle grounds, an ye please, but never may ye cross the plain of Carterhaugh.
Now the king was well pleased that Hynde Horn should marry his beautiful daughter the Princess Jean, but he was not willing that the wedding should be at once.
And if ye will do this I will bring you home a daughter more beautiful than any other maiden in the land.
An earl's daughter was your mother dear, and if I had not stolen her away one bonny night in May she might have wedded a knight of high degree.
Seven years had seemed a long, long time, and now the king was anxious that his daughter should marry and wait no longer for the return of Hynde Horn.
Yet kind and gentle will they be to your beautiful daughter if she will come with me to the Highlands.
As for Lizzie Lindsay, she sent to Edinburgh to fetch her father and mother, that they might see for themselves how wise their daughter had been to follow Donald MacDonald to the Highlands.
Dame Lindsay loved her daughter well, and gave her beautiful gowns of silk and velvet.
Up to her room hastened her father, and sorely did he grieve when he saw that his daughter was so ill.
The third Cleopatra, daughterof the last-mentioned and of Ptolemy Philometer, was married in B.
The bright eyes and graceful form of the gazelle suggested the name for a daughter of Tabitha, of which Dorcas is the Greek.
The method by which a family purifies itself of the unchastity of a daughter is horrible enough.
Among the wives of his harem was Gilukhipa, or Kirgipa, a daughter of the house of Mitanni, between which and the Pharaohs of this epoch the Tel-El-Amarna tablets reveal so voluminous a correspondence.
On the day of the marriage he appeared in the woman's apartments and gave orders in the most imperative manner, that his niece and not his daughter should don the marriage coiffure and the wedding dress and mount the nuptial platform.
According to Ctesias, Cyrus, after defeating Astyages, married his daughter Amytis, who had been the wife of a Mede named Spitaces, whom Cyrus put to death.
The husband gives his father-in-law a present, a custom surviving from a day when wives were purchased; and the father presents his daughter with a present as dowry, which becomes her own personal property.
Instead of congratulations and joy at the little one's advent, the mother is reviled by an angry husband because she brings him a daughter instead of a son.
She was a princess of renown and daughter of Bahman, and to her has been given the credit of being the author of a collection of tales known as Hezar Afsane, which comprises about two hundred stories told upon a thousand nights.
Astyages, the Medean king, had a daughternamed Mandane.
This remarkable woman was said to be thedaughter of Derceto, the goddess of reproductive nature and of a youthful mortal with whom she had fallen in love.
Conspicuous among them might have been seen their dignified and brave burgomaster, Adrian Van der Werf, as he walked with stately pace, his daughter Jaqueline, appropriately called the Lily of Leyden, leaning on his arm.
And, although he desired his daughterto set the example to the women and girls of Leyden, remembering that she was utterly unused to manual work, he, after a time, summoned her home to take the rest and refreshment she required.
The burgomaster and his daughter had stood for some minutes without speaking, their eyes gazing down on the smiling landscape which has been described, yet the minds of neither of them had been engaged in admiring its beauties.
The burgomaster had thrown himself into an armchair the first rest he had sought that day since early dawn, having especially desired his daughter to retire.
He found the chief magistrate and his daughter seated alone.
But will your daughter be as likely to admire a green hunting-shirt, such as that our worthy guide wears, with a fox-skin cap, as the smart uniform of the 55th?
Sheer in, Eau-douce, and we will land the Sergeant's daughter on the end of that log, where she can reach the shore with a dry foot.
The worthy Sergeant will deride my breeding, if he hear that hisdaughter passes the mornings alone and unattended to, though he well knows it is my ardent wish to be her slave and companion from the beginning of the year to its end.
The eyes of Sergeant Dunham had not ceased to follow the form of his beautiful daughter from the moment that the light appeared.
The Sergeant's daughterwould do discredit to her worthy father, were she to do or say anything that could be called silly.
Tis a sad thing to go into battle with the weight of an unprotected daughter laid upon the heart.
My father's daughter is not, and will think of you as she ought to think of a man who has done so much to serve her already.
God will remember it, Pathfinder; and there is no gratitude that you can ask of the daughter which she will not cheerfully repay for her father's life.
Providence has made me the daughter of a sergeant, and I am content to remain in the station in which I was born.
It is said, for instance, that your daughter and her party were permitted to escape the Iroquois, when they came in, merely to give Jasper credit with me.
That palace, which had been so inhospitable a residence for the unhappy daughter of Henry IV.
As thedaughter of a president of accounts, she had brought a marriage portion of thirty thousand crowns to her husband, who was syndic of the goldsmiths.
Madame Henriette, the queen-mother, was dazzled by the brilliancy which cast distinction upon her family, thanks to the wit of the grand-daughter of Henry IV.
I tell you Buckingham has hired all the houses surrounding the one which the queen dowager of England and the princess her daughter will inhabit.
Excellently; the daughterof the Marquis de la Valliere, and step-daughter of that good M.
My lord," she said, "it is hardly becoming that you should allow my daughter and myself to land without having previously ascertained that our apartments are properly prepared.
I say it reluctantly, sire," replied the grand-daughter of Henry IV.
In quitting France, it was her recently adopted daughter he had brought to Paris whom he chiefly regretted; his every thought was a remembrance of her--his every memory a regret.
Unhappily, the President's daughter was not attractive in appearance.
On the very brink of the precipice his mind turned to his women-kind, just as De Sylva himself had whispered a last memory of his daughter to San Benavides when their common doom was seemingly unavoidable.
Dom Corria remembered, of course, what San Benavides and his daughter had said when they all met in the ballroom.
Carmela exerted herself to win popularity, and a President's daughter need not put forth very strenuous efforts in that direction to be acclaimed by most.
Mademoiselle, without doubt, is the daughter of monsieur the captain?
Agua, senhora," she said with a smile, and the delight of mother and daughter was great, since they thought she could speak their language.
I owe you my life, the lives of my daughter and of many of my friends, and the success of my cause.
At the same time he inquired of his daughter why she permitted that undesirable gentleman to hang about her skirts--why she did not let him go.
As he turned to greet the man, upon whose hospitality his daughter had been so literally and unexpectedly thrown, he was scarcely his frank, genial, outspoken self.
Consequently, her daughter was now reluctantly turning her face homeward--a dull outlook, brightened only by the prospect of a boat-ride down the bay with Edward and Rose.
Mrs. Dunlop has a perfect genius for sick-nursing, and you can safely leave your daughter to her.
That same evening the object of these mingled emotions laid a detaining hand upon the shoulder of his pretty daughter as she bent to bestow a bed-time kiss upon his grizzled moustache.
Madame DeBerczy, seated alone at the other end of the apartment, turned upon herdaughter a face of such majestic severity as effectually to quell that young lady's recklessly merry mood.
Afterwards came the physician who set the broken arm, and forbade the patient's removal, and then the Commodore, in whose brawny neck his daughter hid a wet, pitiful face.
The gray walls of the Commodore's home on this side were hung with climbing plants, and as his pretty daughter leaned out of her chamber window a dewy branch of roses, loosened from its fastening, struck her softly on the cheek.
Then thedaughter of our hostess escapes the imputation of being doll-like.
Commodore, who, with his daughter Rose, had accompanied her Ladyship on the day in question to the House of Assembly.
Since that time a young man of one race very seldom weds with the daughter of another, because she does not understand the lies he tells.
This was in the possession of the second daughter of a duke.
I am not worthy to carry The dust out where your daughter should sit.
If I forgive thee thy punishment, Wilt thou then follow thy first intent And promise made, my daughter to marry?
I think, as I thought--if join they can-- My daughter well bestowed on this man.
This doubt our daughter doth well to gather For a good warning now, at beginning, What Wit, in the end, shall look for in winning.
When your father, Reason, Heareth how ye obey me, at this season, I think he will think his daughter now May marry another man for you.
Lucifer's daughter damnation In hell to have heritage.
If Wit be through Stricken in love, as he since hath showed, I doubt not my daughter well bestowed: Th' end of his journey will prove all.
After the death of his daughter Araluen, he returned to Sydney, 1871: went to Camden Haven in charge of Messrs.
The wide-open windows looked out upon the slopes of that lovely hill on whose summit is perched Fiesole, the poor little old mother of Florence, who still holds watch over her beautiful daughter stretched at her feet.
Kipling pointed to the next room at the dancing, and said: "Sitting up late nights as I have a daughter in society, which is my principal occupation at present.
She was traveling alone and was to meet her husband and daughter in London.
At another pleasant luncheon there was present Alice, now the wife of Congressman Longworth, of Ohio, Roosevelt's daughter by his first wife.
On this trip my wife and younger daughteraccompanied me.
When Kermit Roosevelt became engaged to Miss Willard, charming daughter of our ambassador to Spain, my wife promised him that unless we were unavoidably prevented, we should be present at his marriage in Madrid early in the following June.
Uncle Tucher bought him for his daughter Bertha, and it was a comfort to me to think that she was a soft, kind hearted maid, whom I truly loved.
He had never till now beheld Ann close at hand, and how gladly did I reply that this was the daughter of Pernhart the town Councillor and she to whom Herdegen had plighted his faith.
His more than common manly beauty gained him favor with the ladies, and since he preferred what was noble and knightly to all other graces he would wed no daughter of Nuremberg but the penniless child of Baron von Frauentrift.
At this I marvelled not: he had long since learned to think of Councillor Pernbart's step-daughter in all kindness; nay, he had desired me to beg her to forgive a dying old man.
I'm thinking it's a queer daughter you are if you'd have me crossing backward through the Stooks of the Dead Women, with a drop taken.
That's a man is going to make a marriage with the daughter of this house, a place with fine trade, with a license, and with poteen too.
It is the will of God that all should guard their little cabins from the treachery of law, and what would my daughter be doing if I was ruined or was hanged itself?
Oh, aren't you a heathen daughter to go shaking the fat of my heart, and I swamped and drownded with the weight of drink?
Are you thinking, if I'm drunk itself, I'd leave my daughter living single with a little frisky rascal is the like of you?
Some call me the Poor Old Woman, and there are some that call me Cathleen, the daughterof Houlihan.
Whether there is or is not a boy, the whole hundred pounds must be in Michael's hands before he brings yourdaughter in the house.
Alcmæon was married to Alphesibea, the daughter of Phegeus, and deserted her for Calirrhoë, the daughter of the river Achelous.
He falls into his usual error of confounding the daughter of Nisus with the daughter of Phorcys.
Let a son in service [1247] be the torment of one, a marriageabledaughter of yourself.
The daughter of Thestius [1268] burned her son Meleager afar off by means of the billet.
The daughter of Nisus [1271] past by, the cautious mariner rejoices.
Calirrhoë, received to a share of his couch, caused the brother of [1246] Amphilochus not always to be in love with the daughter of Phegeus.
And still, I did seem worthy to be thy wife, since I was a Goddess, since I was the daughter of the Sun.
Ovid, with his propensity for playing upon words, remarks upon the similarity of the names, Chryseis and Seis; the one being the daughter of Chryses, and the other of Briser.
This, too, did Achilles lament, in the case of the daughter of Brises, when taken away from him, that she was administering to the pleasures of the couch of the son of Plisthenes.
You sha'n't go at all if you can't go as my daughter should.
Her daughter had never seen her so deeply in earnest, so intent upon having her way, before.
Why should Mrs. John's daughter have rejected so excellent a settlement?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daughter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
