I am a young man, and do not wish to take much: my fathers have made me a chief: I had much sense before, but now I think I have more than ever.
A great point is made by all Anglo-Israel writers of the promises which God made to the fathers of a multitudinous seed.
Jehovah God of their fatherswith all their heart, and with all their soul" (2 Chron.
The Promises to the Fathersof a Multitudinous Seed 65 III.
Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meagre children; and lovers, with such a world around them and before them, loved and hoped.
We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough?
Towards the latter part of the 18th century the Mission Fathershad succeeded in planting vineyards in California.
In telling the story, all reference to the duplicity of Rebecca should be omitted, for the same reason that malicious step-mothers and cruel fathers have been excluded from the fairy tales.
The same applies to stories in which unnatural fathers are mentioned.
But let him go; he can but die as his fathers have died; and in the cause for which they lived.
Not vainly the gift of its founder was made; Not prayerless the stones of its corner were laid The blessing of Him whom in secret they sought Has owned the good work which the fathers have wrought.
Seeress of the misty Norland, Daughter of the Vikings bold, Welcome to the sunny Vineland, Which thy fathers sought of old!
The good round about us we need not refuse, Nor talk of our Zion as if we were Jews; But why shirk the badge which our fathers have worn, Or beg the world's pardon for having been born?
Unveil his effigy between The living and the dead to-day; The fathers of the Old Thirteen Shall witness bear as spirits may.
The last of the sect to his fathers may go, Leaving only his coat for some Barnum to show; But the truth will outlive him, and broaden with years, Till the false dies away, and the wrong disappears.
Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory!
Hold fast your Puritan heritage, But let the free thought of the age Its light and hope and sweetness add To the stern faith the fathers had.
Here, where of old, by Thy design, The fathers spake that word of Thine Whose echo is the glad refrain Of rended bolt and falling chain, To grace our festal time, from all The zones of earth our guests we call.
As we said at the beginning of this history, when the expedition to Jerusalem spread throughout the Western lands, fathers set out on the journey together with their little sons.
Fathers and lords, I am grateful that the supreme divinity continually provides us with good fortune, and offers us victory everywhere over the enemies of the people.
If neither this great man, not the fathers of the church, can make you change your resolution, consider at least what your philosophers say of it.
Do fathers consult the inclinations of their children when they settle them?
I gave the novices rules of divinity agreeable to the holy fathers and councils.
There are, however, thousands of voters who continue to vote the straight Democratic ticket, believing that the party stands for the same principles as it did when their fathers first voted.
Fathers of families who take this periodical will find it profitable to their children, and an economical mode of instruction, to set them to revising and amending this boy's exercise.
But, Mother, if the bad little boys say it, why do the good fathers say it--hm?
It is easy to say this, as it is easy to explain the doings of the Pilgrim Fathers as a flight from a too liberal and tolerant land to wilds where intolerance could rule unchecked.
They claim glibly and falsely the virtues which their fathers possessed without advertisement.
He was bound for the far lands of travellers' tales, the country of rich grass and endless game, where he could live as he pleased and preserve the fashions of his fathers unchanged.
By this time it is probable that the thing has got a bad name, and men whose fathers and grandfathers lost money under former schemes, are chary of trusting themselves again to the tender mercies of a land-owning State.
His life was so monotonous that the tale of how his fathers first came into the land inspired him by its unlikeness to his own somnolent traditions.
He is careful to state, however, that by slaveholder he does not mean such men as Benton of Missouri and many others throughout the slave States who retain the sentiments on the slavery question of the "immortal Fathers of the Republic.
He put them into the mouths of the fathers of the Republic, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, framed the Constitution, organized state Governments, and gave to negroes full rights of citizenship, including the right to vote.
And our flag shall be the same that our Fathers fought under in the Revolution.
They have arms-- they have the sharp weapons which their fathers had, but they have forgotten how to use them.
They were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
On, on, you noble Briton, Whose blood is fetch'd from fathers of war-proof.
His neighbour's or friend's pet wife of the same caste is in an interesting condition, and the two fathers privately arrange for the children's marriage.
Fathers shook hands with their sons, and bade them farewell, while mothers embraced them; and then the bands struck up "Cheer!
Reader, do not get alarmed: there are as good men now as ever our fathers or grandfathers were, and would hit as hard for the honour of our glorious Empire as they did.
It was always an anomaly; but our fathers did not stop to reason that, if a page has the right proportions at the start, mere increase of margin cannot enhance its beauty or dignity.
He must goe, he must kisse Childe and mother, babie blisse: For he left his pretie boy, Fathers sorowe, fathers joy.
In this tale Cicero is represented standing at the tribune and haranguing the senate: "Conscript fathers and grave senators of Rome," &c.
In one respect we must abandon Father Marty to the judgment and censure offathers and mothers.
When young men are anxious to indulge the spirit of adventure, they generally do so by falling in love with young women of whom theirfathers and mothers would not approve.
Much, too, is due to the work of those teachers who are called the Fathers of the church.
Or what spake the Apostles and all the holy Fathersmore truly if not about the eternity of souls and about their immortality?
Then said Abraham: 'Nay, nay; they have the books of the holy Fathers with them on earth.
Half of them were still heathen, but their fathers had sent them to this Christian school, believing that they needed a better religion than that of Confucius or of Buddha.
Edward Arber, Story of the Pilgrim Fathers as Told by Themselves (1897), is a collection of ill-arranged sources.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fathers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestors; antecedent; elder; forebears; patriarch; predecessor; progenitor
