Far better the bend sinister in his own class than a legitimate parent of the type of 'Gene Bisbee or D.
She even went directly down to the Palace Hotel and reproached her august parent for failing to warn her that a dollar was not capable of infinite expansion.
When a parent dies it is customary for the children to pay regular visits to the tomb, to make offerings there, and to reverence or worship the departed.
The second relation is that of father and son, or parent and child.
The parent feels compassion and love for his child; the child reverences the parent.
The relation of parentand child is very different from that to which we are accustomed.
Possibly he thought that, as Sarah was not distinctly mentioned in the promise, Hagar might become the parent of the promised seed; and by this specious pretence, being anxious for a son, he was induced to comply.
To dream that you see any one afflicted with gangrene, foretells the death of a parent or near relative.
To dream of seeing them on their parent trees, signifies prosperity and happy union; but to eat them as prepared for commerce, they are omens of want and distress.
Venus did herself Plant this the parent tree in Cyprus, where it stands.
And Astydamas says that Bacchus Gave men the vine which cures all mortal grief, Parent of genial wine.
But the third cup is waste and sad excess, Parent of wrongs, denier of redress; Oh, who can tell what evils may befall When Strife and Insult rage throughout the hall?
Each seed is a light little pencil which at one end is equipped with a whorl of hairs,--a parachute which delays its fall and thus enables the wind to carry it away from the parent tree.
Seeds often are carried by rivers and then successfully planted, after many stops and advances, far from the parent tree.
The last saying points to the hereditary goodness which sometimes, for our comfort, we do see, as well as to the halo from a saintly parent which often surrounds his children.
And so, lastly, such sympathy should be the parent of a noble, self-sacrificing life.
The Israelitish parentwas enjoined to teach his or her children the law of the Lord.
Yesterday is the parent of today, and today is the parent of all the tomorrows.
But the self-distrust that turns to God becomes the parent of a far more reliable self-reliance than that which trusts to men.
Many a parent in these days of slack control and precocious independence might say, 'If I be a father, where is mine honour?
To-day is the child of all the yesterdays, and the yesterdays and to-day are the parent of tomorrow.
Each action is in turn the child of all the preceding and the parent of all that follows.
It must here be borne in mind that "Heredity" implies more than its original meaning of a relationship between parent and child.
On this account it does not seem useful to print the results of a large amount of tabulation bearing on the simple filial relationship between the child and either parent separately, except so far as appears in the following paragraph.
The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death; [106] and the examples of such bloody executions, which were sometimes praised and never punished, may be traced in the annals of Rome beyond the times of Pompey and Augustus.
A private jurisdiction is repugnant to the spirit of monarchy; the parent was again reduced from a judge to an accuser; and the magistrates were enjoined by Severus Alexander to hear his complaints and execute his sentence.
Hill at last forgot about his lost parent and let himself loose for a good time.
Undoubtedly that man was Hiram Hill's father--the parent who had been mysteriously missing ever since the first Klondike gold rush!
This was merely an asistencia, an offshoot of the parent Mission, for the benefit of the Indians of this secluded valley, hence not demanding a building of the size and dignity required at San Luis.
By 1826 the parent mission counted nearly three thousand Christian Indians and nearly a thousand gathered at Pala, six leagues from the central establishment.
A Mission was what might be termed the parent church, while the Chapel was an auxiliary or branch establishment.
The word that corresponds to the Latin homo in American languages has such singular uniformity in so many of them, that we might be tempted to regard it as a fragment of some ancient and common tongue, their parent stem.
It was the first of all things, the parent of all things.
A parent might well object to having his daughter's portrait exhibited in a public place, sold to a stranger, or even shown among studies of professional models in your studio.
This is the only way to avoid such collisions as I dread, and which seem to me almost inevitable in such a union as that of parent and teacher in the same family.
I have never heard that he was vicious, but he could not live even with the parentwho had allowed him to grow up unrestrained.
Like a bird slightly wounded which flies to the parent nest and seeks shelter under the warm wings of its mother, so Robert, restless and inquiet, longs for the maternal arms in which he can hide his fears.
The entire human race has been propagated from Adam the first parent of all.
The parent does not concur to the creation of the soul of his offspring, except as an cause.
It seems to me that some men imagine that God pardons sin in much the same way that a good-natured parent overlooks the slight offences of a child who owns his fault.
The interest of the parent and the inclination of the child are thus combined to the retarding of the intellectual progress of the boer.
Family life, with its fine and delicate intimacies between husband and wife, between parent and children, is the most attractive feature of national existence in the Netherlands.
A parentor guardian does a girl incalculable injury in allowing her to enter upon society life without chaperonage, and the unremitting watch-care and control which only a discreet, motherly woman can give to girlhood.
I don't want to either," remarked Jack, who did not think it his duty to refrain from showing the contempt he felt for the miserly, cruel parent of his friend.
To make his story complete, it was necessary for the young Shawanoe to begin with his visit to Jack's mother, and to describe the mental agony of the good parent over the unaccountable absence of her boy.
Jack, straightening up and staring at hisparent in open-mouthed amazement: "I never heard of that before.
Dorothy, this is my father; a more desirable parent you could not ask for; though I regret to say that he treats his daughter with a lack of respect which I fear is one of the signs of the day.
The following year when the graft has knitted, the scion may be cut from its parent tree.
When thus introduced into their new abode the swarm makes itself at home cheerfully, so that even if placed next to the parent hive they will prefer their new colonial settlement.
The matter is entirely a business transaction, entered into by the parent and conducted through regular marriage brokers.
Connected with it only as separable parts of its structure, the cuttings might have been lopped off again without influencing perceptibly the condition of the foster-parent stem.
He was like the dead branch of a tree, which has been snapped from the parent trunk and lies rotting upon the ground, to be broken by the feet of those passing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
