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Example sentences for "paterfamilias"

Lexicographically close words:
patentes; patenting; patently; patents; patera; paterna; paternal; paternalism; paternalistic; paternally
  1. Paterfamilias hesitated a little longer, and then made up his mind, for, telling the ladies to wait, he hurried away after his luggage.

  2. Thus it was as much a sacrificium when the paterfamilias threw at each meal a portion of the food into the fire, the residence of Vesta, as when the consul offered a victim to Mars on the eve of a battle.

  3. I just propounded to paterfamilias these vital questions.

  4. I begin again my postponed list of "book reviews;" when in comes paterfamilias to know "if I haven't yet done with that paper.

  5. Well," said I, "it was either the Lewis gun or Paterfamilias the grim.

  6. As I watched, Paterfamilias squinted along the sights of one of these guns and once again came that shivering crash that is like nothing else I ever heard.

  7. Paterfamilias at the door, smoking a cigar--a lad of ten years of age appears.

  8. Our heroes, as in duty bound, were at the station to meet the 3:5 train, and give the worthy paterfamilias a reception.

  9. The small party which assembled that evening at the table of the worthy paterfamilias did not certainly look like one over which hung the shadow of "transportation.

  10. I presume Paterfamilias was a fine coloured gentleman.

  11. His domestic importance and powers of revolutionizing a household are facts of which every Paterfamilias is made, from time to time, unpleasantly aware.

  12. But to Paterfamilias these are all the joys or sorrows of another world.

  13. Paterfamilias lays down the paper and placidly observes that it may be worth while getting seats.

  14. Why is the Sisyphus a hard working paterfamilias and the sacred beetle an idle vagabond?

  15. It has been extended to new relations by analogy, /1/ It exists where the principal does not stand in the relation of paterfamilias to the actual wrong-doer.

  16. If a paterfamilias commits a tort, and then is adopted or becomes a slave, a noxal action now lies against his master in place of the direct one against himself as the wrong-doer.

  17. Starting from this point it is easy to understand the [343] succession of heirs to a deceased paterfamilias in the Roman system.

  18. Paterfamilias (who is stout and a Volunteer also).

  19. We give a digest of them-- A paterfamilias is thrown into prison for gambling.

  20. The door opened at last, and Paterfamilias entered with Materfamilias (whose headache was better), and followed by the candles.

  21. Sanford paterfamilias was a successful business man of large means and small sensibilities.

  22. As for our dear country, the bourgeois paterfamilias looks upon it as though it were a roast turkey.

  23. But it is well known that the bourgeois paterfamilias was specially devised by Heaven to utter commonplaces and trivialities.

  24. In such cases our bourgeois paterfamilias waves his hands and exclaims: 'What a terrible thing!

  25. There's Paterfamilias takes out the lot Of the progeny he may own, But the Saturday Evening boat has got A freight that is hers alone.

  26. Two gay bachelors may be seen contemplating paterfamilias and his little group.

  27. That paterfamilias should remember, when paying the bill, that a two months' letting barely compensates for an empty house during the remainder of the year.

  28. Paterfamilias drops the subject and pays his account.

  29. That is how the ugly paterfamilias is made.

  30. Mrs. Graves; "that is how the British paterfamilias gets made.

  31. There were two private carriages and two four-wheelers, from which paterfamilias and one other gentleman alighted, followed by a small feminine delegation.

  32. What an English nosegay they made, to be sure, as they stood in the back of the room while paterfamilias approached, and calling each in turn, gave her a lovely bouquet from a huge basket held by the butler.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paterfamilias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boss; chef; chief; dad; daddy; elder; employer; father; genitor; governor; guru; husband; liege; overlord; padrone; pap; papa; pappy; paramount; parent; paterfamilias; patriarch; patron; pop; sahib; sire; teacher