The girls make such fun of their father's excitement about his building, and the way he talks it into everybody.
Both of the young ladies were in the parlour when Corey entered with their father, and both were frankly indifferent to the few books and the many newspapers scattered about on the table where the large lamp was placed.
But the young man took it all, apparently, as simply as their father.
The "Thebais" seems to have begun with the origin of the fatal quarrel between Eteocles and Polyneices in the curse called down upon them by their father in his misery.
The Titans, oppressed by their father, revolt at the instigation of Earth, under the leadership of Cronos, and as a result Heaven and Earth are separated, and Cronos reigns over the universe.
Then went they to Olympus, delighting in their sweet voice, with heavenly song, and the dark earth resounded about them as they chanted, and a lovely sound rose up beneath their feet as they went to their father.
Come thou, let us begin with the Muses who gladden the great spirit of their father Zeus in Olympus with their songs, telling of things that are and that shall be and that were aforetime with consenting voice.
When this daughter was born to Dinah, her brethren, the sons of Jacob, wanted to kill her, that the finger of men might not point at the fruit of sin in their father's house.
He knew that he as the oldest of the brethren would be held responsible by their father, if any evil befell him.
Then Reuben returned unto his brethren, and told them that Joseph bad vanished from the pit, whereat he was deeply grieved, because he, being the oldest of the sons, was responsible to their father Jacob.
When the sons of Jacob saw the vehemence of their father's grief, they repented of their deed, and wept bitterly.
The sons of Jacob set out on the morrow to do the bidding of their father, while he remained at home and wept and lamented for Joseph.
His children might, perhaps, have answered, had they known what was in their father's mind, that he did not knock his money about as he not infrequently knocked his children.
If his children did anything which Mr Pontifex disliked they were clearly disobedient to their father.
But a day was to come when the brothers, alike outraged by their father, would plot and carry out a terrible vengeance.
The advice given by the sons to their father as to the manner of treating the Mohammedans differed widely in accordance with their respective opinions.
Consequently a violent quarrel arose between them, ostensibly on account of this dispute, but in reality on the subject of their father's inheritance, which both equally coveted.
It was a thorn bush, and as they sat beneath it the cessation of movement gave them opportunity to again consider the terrible position of their father.
It was a terrible word and its terror was magnified by their father's unthinkable implication.
The word "murder" was almost unknown to them, and its strangeness was rendered still more strange by reason of the nearness of their father to the term.
Some men rarely revert to their father, but seem, in the bank-books of their remembrance, to have transferred all the stock of filial affection into their mother's name.
It was evident that the three daughters had grown up as they could and had had just as little haphazard instruction as qualified them to be their father's playthings in his idlest hours.
This parcel is a collection of letters written by the children of the family to which he belongs to their father, and contain all the little passages of their lives, and the new ideas they received as the years advanced.
As to the persons concerned in this packet I am speaking of, they have given great proofs of the force of this conduct of their father in the effect it has upon their lives and manners.
Their father is the most intimate friend they have; and they always consult him rather than any other, when any error has happened in their conduct through youth and inadvertency.
Then, by a simultaneous movement, full of touching grace, they pressed the writing of their father in silence to their lips.
But, whilst the daughters of General Simon were reading with such deep emotion, these fragments of their father's journal, a strange and mysterious scene transpired in the menagerie of the brute-tamer.
The orphans, after reading the journal of their father, remained for some moments silent, sad, and pensive, contemplating the leaves yellowed by time.
The three youths resolved to apply to him, to grant them an allowance out of their father's immense income.
The former was to approve, as he had done before, the murder of their father; for she would do nothing without his sanction.
The young princes mount the horses held in readiness for them, and ride into the city bide their father.
And, like Ibrahim, the two boys also lay the packages they had brought at their father's feet.
In their father's house, they knew no cares, and when they married, which was within a few years of each other, their prospects were equal for future happiness.
None of her children observed the hushed intensity with which Mrs. Graham listened, as their father ascended to the chamber.
Their father, Mr. Warren, who had come home from his business earlier than usual, had been waiting some time for their return, and wondering why they stayed so late.
And we know that the numerous bastards of Innocent VIII--Roderigo's immediate precursor on the Pontifical Throne--were openly acknowledged by their father.
Schmucke, in whose company the two sisters forgot their father's neglect and the convent-like rigidness of a devotee's home.
And when Athamas, their father, would meet them by chance he would sigh, and Queen Ino would know by that sigh that he had still some love for them in his heart.
And through all this the daughters of King Pelias sat crouching in fear above the body of their father.
They were women who had been borne down by the tyranny of their father; they stood before him now, two dim-eyed creatures, very feeble and fearful.
He went down into the deep parts of the Earth where the giants Cottus, Briareus, and Gyes had been hidden by their father.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "their father" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
