They are not unknown even to-day; but parents are less inclined to take the law into their own hands.
To avert what he considered a national calamity, he felt it his duty to suggest to parents that no child should be allowed on any pretext in future to leave the Nursery for School until it had passed an examination in these subjects.
If Punch is to be believed, conflicts between teachers and parents were pretty frequent at this time.
I shall not command, neither persuade her to the marriage--I know too well the fatal influence of parents on such a subject.
The education of young Howard was such as is, or was, generally given to a lad of respectable parents intended for trade.
Many times did he wish that he was back in his father's wigwam where he could talk with his parents and his brothers and his friends, and know what the palefaces were doing.
While Pontiac was training his body, his parents took care that he should not grow up in ignorance of the religion and the history of his people.
He had broken the laws of the Great Spirit, and the Great Spirit had commanded that parents should beat their children with rods when they did wrong.
The parents moreover throw their own valuables into the fire to express their grief.
They are ornamented, if the parents are wealthy, with little bells, brass or even silver plates.
During that night a child was born, the parents of which were rich, and accordingly a great slaughter of mares took place, the mandil tent was erected, and a feast and dance announced.
On the birth of a child, if the parents are rich, i.
Marriages are always those of inclination, and if the damsel does not like the suitor for her hand, her parents never force her to comply with their wishes, although the match may be an advantageous one.
Gifts were also sent to the bereaved parents by the chiefs and relations, as a well-meant effort to divert their minds from dwelling on their loss.
My parents were of good family; by that I mean they and their ancestors were good Christian people, father and mother were members of the Episcopal Church.
I was born in Ireland, being three years old when my parents came to Providence.
He asked me where my home was, and I told him that my parents lived in the city of Providence, Rhode Island.
Talk it Over With Your Parents Do you think that your home has enough of the proper size circuits?
Point out to your parents everything that should be repaired or replaced for safety's sake.
Parents may want to team up against you and other younger members of your family to see which team can find the most electrical hazards in some set time--say 30 minutes.
Then, ask permission of your parents to disconnect all the circuits by unscrewing the fuses or flipping the circuit breakers.
How many were common when your parents began to keep house?
Ask your parents how many there were when your home was built or first wired.
If you find defects in permanent wiring, or some places where wires are bare or terminals are needed, you should tell your parents about them.
There was a moment of silence, while the parents were gravely considering the matter.
The parents of the boys had wisely concluded that it would be a good experience for their sons to develop the mine further, since they seemed to be in good hands under Nestor's guidance, and able to take care of themselves.
He and the other parents were willing the boys should have a good time, he said, but did not want them to run into danger.
One of the first things they had done when they were sure of the possession of the mine was to write back home and tell their parents of the good luck.
The parents of the wounded man gave up the suit, and those of the conqueror appeared in their place to ask the hand of my sweet young mistress.
A young man of good family had asked her hand, and her parents had consented.
However, the parents used to arrange all these matters and the strange thing is that sometimes they did not turn out badly.
What cause for thankfulness ought we to have that watchful parents have prevented any idle engagements between you and your misguided cousin.
I remember our little Miles's infantile envy being excited by learning that Lord Castlewood's second son, a child a few months younger than himself, was already an ensign on the Irish establishment, whose pay the fond parents regularly drew.
No naturalparents could be kinder than they were to me.
So, what is the use of Hetty's parents taking her home, if the little maid intends to be just as fond of Harry absent as of Harry present?
I fear he had disobeyed his parents when he galloped away on that undutiful journey.
Master Foker, being much maltreated at Westminster School because of his father's profession of brewer, the parents asked if I would take charge of him; and paid me a not insufficient sum for superintending his education.
You would offend the parents by offering anything like payment for their kindness.
If I had been naughty in the morning, I used to try and coax my parents at night.
After thirteen I could no longer be taken abroad to hotels, for my parents considered that I received too much attention, too many presents, too many chocolates from men.
The tall eldest girl followed her mother into the other room, and soon found herself seated between the two people who were so dear to her, the only parents she had ever known.
She came back to Roy, and to the dear parents who were, after all, more her own people than those she had left behind her in England.
Cuddihy, editor of the Digest, in sums ranging from a few pennies to thousands of dollars from children and their parents all over the land.
Yes, our parents always insisted we had to go to school.
My parents belong to the Douglasses at Summerville, Tennessee.
Age: 70 "My parents was Fannie and Alfred Douglas.
Both my parentswas sold but I don't know how it was done.
This old couple are the parents of four children, the eldest of whom is now sixty-three.
In other tribes the women, the mothers, are the sole judges, and it is not infrequent for the parentsof the bride to demand a payment, dependent on the rank or the riches of the father.
The boys were certainly fêted, but when they told their parents that they must go back, the proposition met with strong opposition.
Telegrams to their parents created paroxysms of joy in many homes which had been robbed when the Investigator went down.
The parents forgot that the boys were now over two years older than when they went away, and it seemed singular that the surroundings did not seem the same to them as before the happy boyhood days before they left home.
For business reasons the parents knew that it would be prudent to permit them to return and they were influenced by the remarkable change they saw in the manners and actions of the boys.
The parents considered the waste land as a great blessing.
My partner's parents were wealthy, and his father had been well known in the street, which fact gave us standing.
In fact, had my parents designed me to become a traveler in the Primrose Way they could not have educated me to better purpose.
Stanley, whose baptismal name was John Rowlands, was born of poor parents in Wales, in 1840.
His parentswere poor, and, while they could give him a comfortable support as long as he worked on the farm with them, they could not afford to send him to college.
Had his parents or teachers understood him, he might have been as great a naturalist as Agassiz, and his life instead of being dwarfed and crippled, would have been a joy to himself and an incalculable benefit to the world.
But Theodore's parents were very poor, and could not even indulge his longing to go to school.
His parents were poor, and he had few of the advantages within the reach of the humblest child in the United States to-day.
Working early and late, and suffering frequently from cold and hunger, he broke down under the unequal strain, and was obliged to return to his parents for a time until health was regained.
And you visit the sins of the parents on the head of their innocent offspring," said Leo.
I was born of poor parents and had to make my own way in the world.
What could his aunt have been saying about him or his parents likely to make the vicar take so strong a view of the matter?
That is all the fault of the schools, for the schools have never made a serious attempt to take the parents into partnership in the matter of their sons' education.
Well, there was a time, fifteen years or so before, when these same parents gave ungrudgingly any amount of time and energy to the task of watching over the development of the little child now rapidly approaching manhood.
The parents of another (a boy of about sixteen) had attempted to base his morality solely on Christian dogma, which meant nothing to him; and the result was disastrous.
Every home has its own problems and its own opportunities, but surely there is no home in which the parents have not a range of activities, professional, commercial, political, or literary.
He believes in him so little that he thinks it simply does not matter what happens in the class-room, provided the boy seems to enjoy himself--how many parents really know whether their boys do enjoy themselves at school?
But anything is better than nothing, and the attitude of many more parents is purely cynical.
And it will, we believe, bring a new happiness to many parents themselves.
But parents live at a distance, and only make themselves felt at moments of crisis, and then the crisis is one which they probably only very imperfectly understand.
Boys speak of their parents with deep affection and respect, as a rule; but so very often they leave an impression that they do not really know them.
It is an article of faith with the present writers that parents are wiser, more tolerant and more open to ideas on educational matters, than schoolmasters generally suppose.
What is it that the parents want from the schools?
Now, there is only one hope, and that is that the parents should come to look at this matter of their son's education politically.
Ada Irvine was an only child, and her parents having gone abroad in the (alas, how often vain!
Respect is a barrier which protects parents as it does children, sparing grief to the former, remorse to the latter.
Heaven is my witness that no girl has ever fulfilled her duty to her parents better than I have done to you.
At these words, said with tears of joy, the bride forgot her sufferings; for she had indeed suffered in presenting herself before the public to obtain a happiness her parents refused to sanction.
Children who do not honor their parents die early," said the father, driven to exasperation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
