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Example sentences for "her father"

  • Do try and sell her to some one who will use her well," said Georgiana to her father, as he was about taking his hat to leave the house.

  • Still, she waited till morning before breaking the news of Clotelle's absence to her father.

  • Unknown to her father, Miss Wilson could permit these two slaves to enjoy more privileges than any of the other servants.

  • Edna was glad to be rid of her father when he finally took himself off with his wedding garments and his bridal gifts, with his padded shoulders, his Bible reading, his "toddies" and ponderous oaths.

  • Edna was not so consciously gratified at her husband's leaving home as she had been over the departure of her father.

  • She had not much of anything to say to her father, for that matter; but he did not antagonize her.

  • The old gentleman, her father, I have heard, used to atone for his weekday sins with his Sunday devotions.

  • Her father, instead of giving her an unlimited order on his banker, or even putting an hundred pounds bank-bill into her hands, gave her only ten guineas, and promised her more when she wanted it.

  • Writing and accounts she was taught by her father; French by her mother: her proficiency in either was not remarkable, and she shirked her lessons in both whenever she could.

  • Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children.

  • Her father, I daresay you know, was the last Earl of Hever.

  • Even more, upon reflection, he wondered whether she was very fond of her father; would she be extremely grateful to one who should render him securely comfortable for life?

  • She could take it from you, of course, as her father.

  • Perhaps from the death of her father, certainly from the beginning of Siddall's courtship, Mildred had been waking up.

  • True, he hastened to say that the expense must be met altogether out of the remnant of Mildred's share of her father's estate, but the idea would not have occurred to him had he not been really planning a marriage.

  • It was not until eighteen months after her father's death, when the total capital was sunk to less than fifteen thousand dollars, that Mildred awakened to the truth of their plight.

  • For what other purpose would he hasten toward the Old Forest than to take refuge in her father's castle upon the banks of the Tann at the forest's verge?

  • She had known him as a boy, and there were many paintings and photographs of his ancestors in her father's castle.

  • Her most poignant grief, like that of her father, was for the dead king, Leopold; but to the sorrow of the loyal subject was added the grief of the loving woman, bereft.

  • In the act that she was witnessing she saw the eventual ruin of her father's house.

  • Clara was to accompany them on her old upright piano, which had been brought down from her father's.

  • He says if he quarreled with her she'd go back to her father, and then he'd lose the Bohemian vote.

  • The boys came up and said good morning with an ease and cheerfulness uncommon, even in well-bred children, but the little girl hid her face on her father's shoulder.

  • Clara had always been fond of her father, and happiness made her kinder.

  • And having found three people more foolish than his bride, or her father or her mother, the lover went back to marry the young lady.

  • The Prince had to take the witch's daughter for his bride whether he would or no; he sneaked away to her father's house with her, however, for he was ashamed to hold the wedding festivities at the palace with so strange a bride.

  • She bethought herself of her father's words, and, pulling out her pocket handkerchief, she gently wiped the Pig's snout and kissed it.

  • Deborah was the favourite of her father, and when Peter disappointed him, she became his pride.

  • In one to her father, slightly theological and controversial in its tone, she had spoken of Herod, Tetrarch of Idumea.

  • Miss Jessie smiled as usual, and seemed nearly as popular as her father.

  • She did not feel inclined to tell Mahin about her quarrel with her father; as to her sister, she was very cold to Lisa, being jealous of Mahin's love for her.

  • Her father, so she thought, had cast her away from him, and she longed passionately to live and to have done with play.

  • Losing all control over herself, and sobbing with rage, she behaved with the greatest impertinence to her father, calling him a tyrant and a miser.

  • On her father, her confidence had not been sanguine, but he was more negligent of his family, his habits were worse, and his manners coarser, than she had been prepared for.

  • The only interruption which thoughts like these received for nearly half an hour was from a sudden burst of her father's, not at all calculated to compose them.

  • Sir Thomas soon appeared, and Maria saw with delight and agitation the introduction of the man she loved to her father.

  • Not once that week did the Princess ride past our house, or her father either.

  • I could follow the same occupation as her father, and with better success.

  • Jane had the strongest belief in her father's worldly wisdom.

  • She simply took the name of Gordon--that is, her father did.

  • And there was a sudden and startling shift in her expression--to a tenacity as formidable as her father's own, but a quiet and secret tenacity.

  • You'd better move slowly," she said to her father.

  • Her brows came down in a gesture reminiscent of her father, and there was a disagreeable expression about her mouth and in her light brown eyes.

  • That sort of thing was all very well for married women, he had read enough French novels to know that in France it was indeed the rule, but Miss Wilkinson was English and unmarried; her father was a clergyman.

  • Sally listened to all this with a slight, slow smile, not much embarrassed, for she was accustomed to her father's outbursts, but with an easy modesty which was very attractive.

  • Her father was a farmer, and she's never bothered about aitches in her life.

  • She sat down by the lamp and began to read to her father, as usual.

  • She glanced quickly from one to the other in silence, seeing the fear on her father's face.

  • The Doctor, talking to her father, watched the girl furtively, took in every point, as one might critically survey a Damascus blade which he was going to carry into battle.

  • We have tried hard enough to pay the rent this month," continued Katy; and she proceeded to tell the story of the silver watch, that had belonged to her father.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her father" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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