Father was going to write to every sheriff of the counties along the way the man said he had come, and if he could find no one before spring who had been robbed, he said Leon might do what he liked with the money.
Father was in the wagon shovelling corn from it to a platform where it would be handy to feed the pigs, so I ran and called him, and put one foot on a hub and raised my hands.
Father was reading a wonderful new book to mother and some of the neighbours.
Father was so tickled to get the money to help him out that he said he'd get her a pair of those wonderful new blue geese like Pryors had, that every one stopped to look at.
My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores at Nantucket, where I was born.
They know the signs of what passes within with more certainty than any physiognomist, and it was soon seen by all those who had any connection with him that my father was sincere in his disdain of vengeance.
I am an ignorant boor myself, because my father was poor, but my children shall have all the wisdom they can pile in.
My father was a poor man, but ask Max or some of our fellow-townspeople and they will tell you what a fine name he had.
My father was a French colonist in the island of Saint Domingo.
Although he was not more than forty years of age, the one pleasure which made life enjoyable to Lucy's father was offered by Lucy herself.
It is not in me to be a great actress," she resumed; "but you know what an admirable musician my father was.
I was born in Liverpool; my father was born in this house, which belonged to his fathers before him, but he left it at an early age and married my mother in Liverpool, who was an Anglesey woman, and so I was born in Liverpool.
My father was a farmer, and had a bit of a share in a mining concern.
My mother was from Ireland: my father was Irish of Scotland Road, where they met and married.
My father was a brick; and, being a good man with his fists, was looked upon as a very proper person to fight a principal man amongst the dungs.
Father was out, so we needn't have crept so when we were getting into the garden.
Father was away at Liverpool on business, and Albert's uncle was at Hastings.
Father was still a puddler, and to show my appreciation of all he had done for me, I went into the mill every afternoon that summer and worked a heat or two for him while he went home and rested in the shade.
Father was putting in short time at Sharon and was badly worried.
My Grandfather Davies, held a skilled job at the blast furnace where iron was made for the rolling mill in which my father was a puddler.
My father was an iron worker, and his father before him.
Father was in the mills getting these good wages, though no puddler was ever paid for all the work he does, and all of us young Davises were eager to grow up so that we could learn the trade and get some of that good money ourselves.
Shelton suddenly felt certain that Antonia's father was just as anxious to say something expressive of his feelings, and as unable as himself.
The worst of it was that now Crum had spoken the word, he realised that he had long known subconsciously that his father was not 'the clean potato.
My father was in the old High School the last year, and walked in the procession to the new.
She paused to ask herself if this were so, and he, deaf perhaps to her words, caught up his broken sentence and went on: "My father was in the hall the day I came staggering in from my visit to the grotto.
This is the first one: On the morning preceding the day of Mrs. Upjohn's death, an interview took place between us at which my father was present.
My father was an army man, and he taught me very early to load and fire a pistol.
Where my father was born I do not know, except that it was somewhere in New Jersey, for I remember that he was once angry because a man called him a Jersey Spaniard.
I did not find, however, that these little enterprises prospered well in New England, and I had recalled very forcibly a story which my father was fond of relating to me in my boyhood.
My father was indignant at the results of my college career; and, according to my aunt, his shame and sorrow had some effect in shortening his life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "father was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
