"You're very much mistaken if you think my father is that kind of man.

This was a terrible shock to him; his father had been his ideal of what a Christian gentleman should be, and it seemed to him at first as if a cloud had settled on his life which could never be dispelled.

Now Michelangelo, in his poem on Lodovico's death, says very decidedly that his father was ninety when he breathed his last.

If your father is a market-gardener it's all right, so long as you can explain exactly who you are and where you came from; but there must be no mystery.

They proceeded a long way, and arrived at the village of which the real father of the child was the chief.

Henry's step-father, having an influential friend, secured for the disgusted and discontented youth a position in the office of the Clerk of the High Court of Chancery, of which the eminent jurist, George Wythe, was chancellor.

His grand-father was the Revd.

He had also (to wife) another young girl named Theudoehilde, whose father was a shepherd, a mere tender of sheep, and had by her, it is said, a son who, on issuing from his mother's womb, was carried straight-way to the grave."

Her father had been to him the kindest of guardians: ought he to repay that kindness by destroying, perhaps, his proudest schemes?

His father had been a Whig, and a non-slaveholder; and while he had gone with the South in the civil war so far as a man of peace could go, he had not done so for love of slavery.

WALTER, JOHN, London printer; the founder proper, though his father was the projector, of the Times newspaper, and forty years in the management of it, under which it became the "leading journal" of the day, a success due to his discernment and selection of the men with the ability to conduct it and contribute to it (1773-1847).

His father was George Hamilton, grandson of the Duke of Hamilton.

Our father was the engineer of the first Russian railroad, and he spent two years in America.

In one corner a family of twenty children are laying designs in shining rings of steel; and as the graceful curves multiply beneath their clever fingers, the kindergartner is telling them a brief story of a little boy who made with these very rings a design for a beautiful "rose window," which was copied in stained glass and hung in a great stone church, of which his father was the architect.

During the first two or three days we believed he was skulking around somewhere near at hand, with the vain hope that he might be able to effect our escape; but as the time passed on it became certain that such could not be the case, otherwise he would have succeeded in making his way to the lodge, as he had done when his father was the only occupant of it.

"My father and I are the best-natured people in the world.

Such a thing had never been dreamed of by his worst enemies, and they knew that their father's were legion.

They report that his father was a butcher, the retailer of his own meat, and that he employed this very son in the servile offices of that trade.

My father was an old bachelor of nearly sixty when he married.

" It was the first time the thought of his "rights"of the share of his father's estate that would be his when his father was no morehad definitely entered his head.

Henry Downing's father was a gamekeeper; so you will not be surprised to hear that he was very fond of playing at hunting and shooting.

"But my father was a workingman.

My wife's father was a jettatore; he had the evil eye, and people knew it for miles around, so I could not persuade anyone from the other villages to sit by him and watch his body, though I sent everywhere all day yesterday.

Their father was no object of love to them; he had never seemed the friend of their pleasures, and his absence was unhappily most welcome.

" "My father was a carrier Many years ere I was born, And used to rise at daybreak And go his rounds each morn.