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Example sentences for "paternal"

Lexicographically close words:
patently; patents; patera; paterfamilias; paterna; paternalism; paternalistic; paternally; paterne; paternelle
  1. He felt somehow ashamed of this paternal softness and hid it from his wife--only indulging in it when alone with the boy.

  2. The gloom on the paternal countenance had also impressed George Osborne with anxiety.

  3. The paternal laugh was echoed by Joseph, who thought the joke capital.

  4. The very best and honestest feelings of the man came out in these artless outpourings of paternal feeling in which he indulged in their presence, and encouraged by their sympathy.

  5. No, indeed; the life of a good young girl who is in the paternal nest as yet, can't have many of those thrilling incidents to which the heroine of romance commonly lays claim.

  6. They sent him parcels, which, when opened, were found to contain the paternal soap and candles.

  7. A few months after he was with his paternal grandfather, Mrs. Sedley died.

  8. If the affliction of this infant may not be ascribed to paternal indiscreetness, possibly inebriety, it is not because such instances were uncommon.

  9. In contrast with this paternal attitude, however, was the constancy of a true-hearted mother.

  10. Merchant, and concerning his paternal grandsire how he was a Monarch.

  11. Thus befel it with the Sultan and the Wali; but as regards the matter of the girl Sitt al-Husn, when she went forth the prison in the dress of a Shalabi, a dainty youth, she ceased not wending till she reached her paternal home.

  12. But when the poor man died he left only a boy who sought to marry the girl his cousin: his paternal uncle, however, refused him maugre that she loved him and she was beloved of him.

  13. By way of contrast, I will now trace some family sketches, commencing with the reverence attached to the paternal authority.

  14. A third, a blood-bay, of incomparable beauty and tall stature, in whom may be recognized traces of his paternal and maternal uncles, famous in the annals of racing.

  15. Paternal love is a strong passion in the male ostrich.

  16. Up to that epoch, paternal tenderness watches over the purity of his manners with unceasing vigilance.

  17. The rapid transition from carnal to paternal love cast my physical and mental faculties into such a state of excitement that I could scarcely withstand the fierce struggle that was taking place in my heart.

  18. The scar which my late amours had left was still bleeding, and I was glad to think that I should be able to restore the young Marseillaise to the paternal hearth without any painful partings or vain regrets.

  19. My hypocritical love masked itself under the guise of paternal affection.

  20. When we were at London he heard that she had left the paternal roof about the middle of Lent.

  21. He thanked me in a paternal manner for my kindness to his daughter, and begged me to do him the honour of dining with him on the following day, telling me that he would introduce me to his wife.

  22. She then kissed me with an air of submission to the paternal decree which made Manon laugh.

  23. Upon this our shoemaker begins a theological discourse, expatiating upon the power of faith and upon the virtue of the paternal blessing.

  24. His father was extremely fond of him up to the time when he was obliged to resist the paternal orders in deference to State reasons.

  25. He had done nothing to call forth the paternal wrath.

  26. He was a man with large ideas of paternal rights, of which an example may be given that was not without its effect upon the vital interests of others.

  27. Within a few days he received a letter from his father forwarded to him from the hotel, that was even more unpleasant than the majority of the paternal epistles to which he was accustomed.

  28. The paternal test was certainly a hard one in more ways than one.

  29. Owing to what he had previously known of the state of Roy's purse both at home and during vacation time, he had not the slightest suspicion that now his cousin's paternal allowance had been inconveniently curtailed.

  30. And as now Maltravers saw the expected paper laid beside the hissing urn, he seized it eagerly, tore the envelope, and hastened to the well-known corner appropriated to the paternal district.

  31. The proposition was accepted, and it was two years before the infant Ernest was restored to the paternal mansion.

  32. I entreat you, 'by all this paternal goodness,' that you do not compel him to lose the character of the gentle Parent in that of the righteous Judge.

  33. The bestowment of a birthday present, was an expression of paternal regard, but what different dispositions and tendencies did it call forth, and what a different moral effect did it produce!

  34. I was delighted by his assumption of the paternal character.

  35. They knew the only true God, and spoke of him in a style corresponding with his greatness, his condescension, and his paternal love.

  36. Paternal government, says the argument, works well; therefore, despotic government in a state will work well.

  37. I wave, as not pertinent in this place, all that could be said in qualification of the alleged excellence of paternal government.

  38. But despite his eccentricities, Marheyo was a most paternal and warm-hearted old fellow, and in this particular not a little resembled his son Kory-Kory.

  39. Mazipalali(395) my envoy is the paternal uncle of Gilia and for .

  40. Her father put on a gloomy countenance in the house, casting severe glances at her to remind her that she must not show her feelings and that her sufferings were an outrage on paternal authority.

  41. The insufferable miser, the voracious usurer, offered his assistance with touching and paternal kindness on hearing of Barret's misfortune.

  42. This in spite of the fact that the tiny paternal germ-cell is the only medium of transmission of the paternal qualities, while the mother furnishes the much larger egg-cell, and feeds him throughout the embryonic period.

  43. We say "practically" because the maternal and the paternal influences are not equally divided in the offspring.

  44. And the germ-cell may devour any amount of egg-protoplasma without losing its original paternal energy.

  45. As has already been mentioned every individual inherits, generally speaking, as much from his paternal as from his maternal progenitors.

  46. One very great advantage of an early paternal explanation of sex matters to the boy is its beneficial effect on the mind and the nerves.

  47. My paternal grandfather was a slave of some intelligence.

  48. My heart has long ago forsaken my paternal home: it is with thee, as my spirit hovers on the stage.

  49. This chaste knot of nature is subject neither to the sovereign power nor to paternal authority," he cried, "but only to the authority of the common Father.

  50. His own ideal of kingship was a paternal despotism, and his ambition, to use most advantageously the limited resources of his country in order to render Prussia feared and respected abroad.

  51. According to our famous "morals," there is no paternal feeling towards the illegitimate child; that exists only for "legitimate heirs.

  52. But with the decay of the paternal gentes and the decline of their significance, conditions shaped themselves more favorably for woman.

  53. She had stepped out of her gens: neither she nor her children could inherit from her father or his brothers: otherwise the inheritance would be lost to the paternal gens.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paternal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adoring; affectionate; ancestral; conjugal; demonstrative; devoted; faithful; fatherly; filial; fond; husbandly; languishing; lovelorn; lovesick; loving; maternal; melting; mother; parent; parental; paternal; patriarchal; romantic; sentimental; soft; tender; wifely


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    paternal authority; paternal government; paternal power; paternal uncle