Daughter

Examples

• She did not choose it, said her daughter, she would go. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Perhaps if it was, your little mercenary wretch of a daughter wouldn't make so free with it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, to turn up her nose at you! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I said, Find out whom you are, and you shall have my daughter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The daughter had been found; but only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She had been a daughter to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The father looked at him: the daughter kept her face hid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Nay, he appeared so much otherwise, that his daughter's courage failed. Jane Austen. Emma.
• No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return of Lady Maynooth and her daughter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A Corfu bandmaster's daughter! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Fanny had indeed nothing to convey from aunt Norris, but a message to say she hoped that her god-daughter was a good girl, and learnt her book. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Like some other mothers, whom I have known in the course of my life, Mrs. Markleham was far more fond of pleasure than her daughter was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The fisherman's daughter? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Kindle the torch, daughter of Hengist! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Her gaze said, This woman is not of mine or my daughters' kind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• De Guiche, I will not suffer you to kiss and pull my daughters about in this way. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You have seen my daughters? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline--and my aged father--I cannot afford to be selfish. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He called for his wife and daughters to come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Upon this signal, the youngest of her daughters put herself forward. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; _my_ daughters are brought up very differently. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She had found one of the sons of God from the Beginning, and he had found one of the first most luminous daughters of men. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Das war ausgezeichnet, das war famos--' 'Wirklich famos,' echoed his exhausted daughters, faintly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It has been tried many times by other daughters, Minnie; it has never succeeded; nothing has ever come of it but failure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Young sir, when you feel tempted to marry, think of our four sons and two daughters, and look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I did not know before, that I had two daughters on the brink of matrimony. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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