I was once a moose, and my father's father afterward became a bearso said the shaman, and the shaman cannot lie.

And thus arose a spasmodic, vague, extravagant, effeminate, school of poetry, which has been too often hastily and unfairly fathered upon Byron.

It has been conjectured that Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano, fathers respectively of Leo and of Clement, were to occupy two of the sarcophagi; and also, with greater probability, that the two Popes, Leo and Clement, were associated with the Dukes.

God, our kind heavenly Father, has promised to give us his Holy Spirit if we ask Him for it in sincerity; and however young you are, or weak, or ignorant; however far away from earthly friends, or human sympathy, He will hear the softest word you utter, the faintest breathing of a silent prayer, and will come into your soul and bless it.

"I have neither sister nor brotheronly my father.

However coolly the Duke may have behaved, and coldly his father, at least his brother [the Prince of Wales] has outdone both.

" "So they were, so they were, my dear," said my father, complacently, "but for some reasons we must always treat their memory with a certain respect.

She was watching her father, curiously and penetratingly, as if trying to understand the source of the emotion that he was seeking to control.

The boy showed himself decidedly father to the man here.

The seventy-six members of that Congress, including sixteen of the framers of the original Constitution, as before stated, were pre-eminently our fathers who framed that part of "the Government under which we live," which is now claimed as forbidding the Federal Government to control slavery in the federal territories.

"If he don't," said the father, fiercely, "the turkey-buzzards'll hev a meal, for I'll shoot him in his tracks.

Furnisht your father with a gallant power; His love may haply then disable Philip.

This patriarchal kingdom will probably remain unchanged so long as the present King lives, the much-beloved King Nicholas, a genuinely Homeric Father of his People.

" "A-bah!" said the pleased father, incredulously.

In winter, transient visitors but rarely occupied one or other of the square centre tables, though not infrequently a proud father and mother who had come to visit a soldier son at the barracks, brought him to the hotel for a meal, and for a space the radiance of blue and scarlet and the glint of steel cast a military glamour over the staid company.

So, at least, they always said; but it was remarkable that their name could never be traced farther back than the dissolution of the monasteries: and Calumnious Dryasdusts would sometimes insolently father their title on James I. and one of his batches of bought peerages.

" [Footnote A: Literally, "my foster father," or "my benefactor.

The farm is lost by reverses, and manfully Robert Nicoll's father becomes a day- labourer on the fields which he lately rented: and there begins, for the boy, from his earliest recollections, a life of steady sturdy drudgery.

there came an Emperour abord our shippe, whose father in time past had beene Emperour of all Iaua, and commanded all the Kings of Iaua, but

For what door is open to a Gottfried, to him who carries the sign of the Red Axe?" "Ah, lad," said my father, patiently, "life comes and life goes.

Long ere thy princely father met thy mother, we loved, she and I, and in our love grew up together.

'The miniature of me,' said the father, almost scoffingly, looking up at his son's face, suspiciously.

Perhaps my heavenly Father, more securely to engage my heart, has kindly resumed the gift; and transplanted to a better soil the flower, whose charms were insensibly stealing my affections.

Several of our most public-spirited citizens seemed to father it simultaneously.

Cold bathing, in the hands of those who are ignorant of the laws of the human frameand such unfortunately and unaccountably most fathers and mothers areI cannot help regarding as a highly dangerous weapon; and therefore it is, that in view of the whole subject, I cannot recommend its general and indiscriminate use.