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Example sentences for "foster father"

  • He promised to do all that he might towards making a good warrior and seaman of me; and he was ever thereafter as a foster father to me, for my own had died in the hall with Vemund.

  • I liked not the errand, as may be supposed, but I could not leave my foster father to go alone.

  • Then I saw that my foster father's face was white and drawn as with some trouble, and he was gazing in a still way at the man whom the warriors yet held on the floor.

  • As for me, I almost wondered that Ina seemed so ready to part with Owen, but presently I saw that if Gerent owned him again, my foster father would be a link between the two kingdoms, which would make for peace in every way.

  • I began to dislike my foster father, rather than hate him.

  • It can hardly be expected that I, a boy of seven years of age, grasped the full significance of the information imparted by my foster father.

  • It was quite clear to me that, should my foster father drive me from the house, I should have to resort to some makeshift living in the streets.

  • The third time he appeared my foster father said: 'He's come to talk to me of Christ and Raphael.

  • Olaf the king, and Ulfkytel of East Anglia, and Edric Streone, my foster father.

  • And when he had heard all, he said: "Let me send for Edric Streone, my foster father, and we will take counsel with him.

  • Yet my men and I know well that Rani, my foster father, whom you will soon know, was the real captain and leader for the first three or four years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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