Fatherly

Examples

• I suppose I should now entertain none but fatherly feelings for you: do you think so? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He tenderly raised my head, and as I clung to him, kissed me in his old fatherly way again and again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You will see, by its contents, that on your favourable and fatherly consideration of it, depend his future happiness and welfare. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Take a fatherly good night, my dear, said he, kissing me on the forehead, and so to rest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Tom regarded his gay, airy, handsome young master with an odd mixture of fealty, reverence, and fatherly solicitude. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He was much beloved by the poor, because he was thoroughly kind and very fatherly to them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was fatherly to his pupils, but he was not brotherly to me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I bore my share of that inestimably precious burden with a manly tenderness, with a fatherly care. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He turned his old bright fatherly look upon me, laid his hand on my hand in his old way, and said again, She will succeed, my dear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His voice sank into the tenderest inflections, his smile expressed a thoughtful, fatherly admiration, whenever he spoke to Laura or to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When they came, he encircled Ada with one arm in his fatherly way and addressed himself to Richard with a cheerful gravity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He had a fatherly, benignant way of showing his fondness for her, which seemed in itself to express a good man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The fatherly voice broke more than once, which only seemed to make the service more beautiful and solemn. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A little boastfulness in his fatherly tone here, as if he added in his heart, even of the Chesney Wold station. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Maggie