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Example sentences for "his father"

  • Harran hurried out into the dining-room and there met Presley and his father, who had been aroused as well by Annixter's clamour.

  • The largeness of his father's character, modified in Lyman by a counter-influence of selfishness, had produced in him an inordinate ambition.

  • He had the fine carriage that marked his father, and still further resembled him in that he had the Derrick nose--hawk-like and prominent, such as one sees in the later portraits of the Duke of Wellington.

  • His blue eyes looked straight into his father's with what Magnus could fancy a glance of appeal.

  • It was after the death of his father, and was not likely to have been later than 1828.

  • I pointed with my finger, and the young man hastened past me to the arms of his father.

  • I was struck with that ballad of Orm Ungarswayne, who goes by night to the grave-hill of his father to seek for counsel.

  • His father, who had survived his mother several years, had been a spendthrift, and at his death had left the family property considerably embarrassed.

  • He had seen, almost daily, in his father's castle, excess in its most excessive development.

  • He wrote to his father, announcing a speedy visit from himself and his wife; and two days afterwards the pair left St. Petersburg in a large travelling kibitka.

  • He would write immediately to his father, and hoped, that, if the news brought a storm, Mishka might be on hand to divert its force, as on a former occasion.

  • There was a photograph of himself on the chimney-piece and one of his father.

  • There was a yellow packet of letters which he had written to his father in the forties, when as an Oxford undergraduate he had gone to Germany for the long vacation.

  • But the young man wrote that his father, an india-rubber merchant who lived in Slough, did not approve of the union, and Fraulein Thekla was often in tears.

  • He wants to go round and look at his father's old shop.

  • So he went in and said to his father, Behold, I have found one which will go with me.

  • Mac 13:9 Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his father's time.

  • Mac 3:2 And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

  • Esdr 1:31 Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem died, and was buried in his father's sepulchre.

  • He hung down his head while he spoke of his father's conduct towards us.

  • This was the substance: He of course adored her; and wished to share with her a large fortune of which he was already in possession, without counting what he was to inherit at his father's death.

  • He will require some time to take you to his father's house, where he keeps his money, and I shall have quite sufficient for the execution of my plan.

  • T----, that I may punish him for the cowardly baseness of his father.

  • Rowland Mallet had made his arrangements to sail for Europe on the first of September, and having in the interval a fortnight to spare, he determined to spend it with his cousin Cecilia, the widow of a nephew of his father.

  • His father was a chip of the primal Puritan block, a man with an icy smile and a stony frown.

  • The Oldest Drama "It fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

  • Such excesses were not permitted in his father's battery in Guelph, Ontario.

  • His father grieved so deeply that it made Angel quite ill to see him.

  • His father is the Reverent Mr Clare at Emminster--a good many miles from here.

  • Much he questioned old Nokomis Of his father Mudjekeewis; Learned from her the fatal secret Of the beauty of his mother, Of the falsehood of his father; And his heart was hot within him, Like a living coal his heart was.

  • Filled with awe was Hiawatha At the aspect of his father.

  • Nearing home, however, his belligerent spirit was diverted to happier interests by the discovery that some workmen had left a caldron of tar in the cross-street, close by his father's stable.

  • At home the late Child Sir Lancelot was consigned to a locked clothes-closet pending the arrival of his father.

  • He really felt conscientiously vexed on the occasion; for the very exertion to which he had limited the performance of his promise to his father was by this arrangement rendered impracticable.

  • The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more; and it was altogether an attention which the delicacy of his conscience pointed out to be requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.

  • When he gave his promise to his father, he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.

  • Mosiah 6:4 4 And Mosiah began to reign in his father's stead.

  • Tom Pinkerton managed to learn that Grace was now without a home, and mentioned it to his father.

  • His father received a gift of five thousand dollars from Mr. Wharton as an acknowledgment of his kindness to Frank.

  • This was because of the promises he had made to his father, and they had been the first thing he remembered.

  • Not that he had ever regretted anything connected with his father.

  • And call'd his father's ghost, from hell restor'd.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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