O God, whose property it is always to pity and to spare, receive our supplications, and by the mercy of Thy fatherly love, loose those whom the chain of their sins keeps bound, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The secretary, Teddy, came in a fatherly way to look after Mr. Direck and see to his draperies.
And in addition he had just a touch of fatherly feeling that a younger man would not have had, and it made him feel very anxious to prevent her making a fool of herself by marrying a man out of spite.
And therefore I besech you to send a servant of yours to my lady and to me, and show now by your fatherly kyndnesse that I am your child; for I have sent you dyverse messuages and wryttings, and I had never answere againe.
Excuse my fatherly familiarity, but how can you afford to gad with those wild asses?
He dared not invite another of Ten Eyck's fatherly lectures.
He was received at the house of the Proconsul Vindicianus, who liked to talk with him, and treated him with quite fatherly kindness.
Upon the Church lands, these small people were protected from taxes and the extortions of the revenue officers, and no doubt they found the episcopal government more fatherly and mild than the civil.
Little Augustin knew nothing of all these calculations of motherly prudence and fatherly diplomacy: he begged for baptism, so he tells us.
The clergyman, who appeared to feel the friendlessness of the young girl and the old woman a charge laid upon him, bestowed a sort of fatherly protection upon them both.
He sent to entreat them to come and receive his fatherly blessing; they answered, they did not want it.
During my period of incarceration the warden-in-office was an upright and impartial man, just to his charges and even kindly and fatherly when the circumstances would warrant.
After the fifth failure I went back to the fatherly old chief of police to confess defeat and to notify him that I was leaving town.
For a short period God's justice has stretched forth the rod to chastise, not to ruin its children, and soon will the fatherly love of that heavenly Lord receive them and cherish them.
And if a fatherly kind heart incline you, if this new service has outweighed my old sins, or even equalled them, then receive me to your favor and your heart, for all have deserted me, no one comforts me save you.
Let God judge me, thou poor orphan, if I did this from hardness of heart and lack of fatherly love for thee.
On the other hand his readiness to secure their happiness as far as possible in the way they wished for themselves shows the tenderness of his fatherly heart.
You look very white, my dear Miss Boyce," said that cheerful and fatherly person.
Mr. Wadham was a man of mature years and fatherly ways.
Mitchell's respect for John was changing oddly to a fatherly feeling.
It precedes and surpasses reason, especially in the disclosure of the depths of fatherly love which are in the heart of the infinite Jehovah; but it nowhere contradicts reason--nay, it incorporates all the findings of reason.
He was a man of gentle, humane impulses and looked out upon the world with the kindliest fatherly eyes.
Old Ben expressed the best feelings of the wiser as he took Sam's hand for a fatherly word.
He made his daughter relate at full length how the poet had won her love, and though he frequently interrupted her with blame as well as praise, his heart was full of fatherly joy when he laid his darling's hand in that of the poet.
Sitting here among those who were devoted to him, he looked with kind and fatherly pride at his blooming sons.
Perhaps somewhere in his heart he had a certain fatherly admiration for her, but if so it did not show itself in the usual fatherly way.
With his somewhat rough but truly fatherly nature, he had begun to adore Bernadette, making her mission his own, and devoting himself, soul and body, to realising the orders which he had received from Heaven through her innocent mouth.
With a loving, fatherly smile on his good-natured face, Abbe Judaine listened to them all, and allayed their impatience with kind words.
For three years Pierre had not once seen Guillaume, whom in his childhood he had worshipped as a kind, merry, and fatherly big brother.
Chassaigne; and in a fatherly way he added: "Well, since you are walking, suppose we take a walk together?
For twenty-three years he had ruled the House with fatherly care, and he was weary with many labours.
John Ruesbroeck received them both in fatherly wise, and after a few days they returned to their own habitation, greatly refreshed by the words of his mouth and by his living example.
Who could tell in worthy wise with what fatherly care he strove to instruct all in learning and character, and to the leading of an upright life, and the holding of a good repute?
What sort of return had I made for Mr. Fauntleroy's fatherly kindness to me?
He waited for a moment while Jessie dried the tears which Anne Rodway's simple diary had drawn from her warm young heart, then closed the manuscript, and taking her hand patted it in his gentle, fatherly way.
Blessed Francis replied quietly that her straightforward words only increased his fatherly affection for her, as they were an evidence of great candour, a virtue he highly respected.
God, and who with humility and gentleness implore His fatherly assistance.
Oh, what a happiness it would be for our souls if we accustomed ourselves to receive all things from the fatherly hand of Him who, in opening it, fills all things living with blessing!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatherly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestral; fatherly; maternal; mother; parent; parental; paternal; patriarchal
