Fathers

Examples

• If those who had bad fathers and mothers were bad themselves, they were hanged for that. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Seize him and strip him, slaves, said the knight, and let the fathers of his race assist him if they can. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• One of the sons of Murad I embarked on an intrigue with Andronicus, the son of the Greek Emperor, to murder their respective fathers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have known _their_ husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There follows a history of the fathers and founders of the Hebrew nation, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They tarried not to bid their fathers and mothers good-bye, or any friend they knew. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was the law of my fathers, said Rebecca; it was delivered in thunders and in storms upon the mountain of Sinai, in cloud and in fire. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Their maintainers and foster-fathers. Plato. The Republic.
• No doubt this automatic and balanced theory of government suited admirably that distrust of the people which seems to have been a dominant feeling among the Fathers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Few fathers would have let me have my own way half so much. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In this room, after having had their quarters for the night allotted to them by two young Fathers, the travellers presently drew round the hearth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Think what would have happened had we actually remained stolidly faithful to every intention of the Fathers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The God of my fathers help me! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If need were he would go himself and brave both the fathers in the business. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One of the Fathers says, 'Gaming table. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We have little time to hear texts from the holy fathers. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Young ladies sometimes,' Rokesmith hinted, 'choose without mentioning their choice to their fathers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Another of the Fathers says, 'Speculated without knowing that speculation is a science. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Not this generation maybe, but their fathers. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I had no such feverish wish to turn him from the faith of his fathers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The mass are worthy fathers of families, who keep shops. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And those fathers of America thought also that they had but to leave the press free, and everyone would live in the light. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I also, and the noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh, speak only the language, and practise only the manners, of our fathers. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Very few letters were written in those hard times that were not touching, especially those which fathers sent home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The girls were trained by their mothers, the boys either by their fathers or by some master to whom they were apprenticed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I love not these vanities, which were unknown to my fathers when England was free. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• O, it is a rich abbey-stede, and they do live upon the fat, and drink the sweet wines upon the lees, these good fathers of Jorvaulx. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Fathers say so likewise, and are angry with their daughters when they observe their man?uvres--they order them to stay at home. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You say your fathers did it; if it was right for them, it is right for me! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Editor: Quentin