86 Metaphors for parents

alas!' exclaimed Lady Annabel, 'to a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

My parents were Dutch; and you may have heard how it was before the Revolution, between the Dutch and the Yankees.

Her parents were clear negros, of the Congo or Guinea race, and in every thing but colour she perfectly resembled them.

Age: 70 "My parents was Fannie and Alfred Douglas.

His parents were readers.

The parents were hunters and were absent for long periods, and though there was incredible shouting and laughter when they returned, they came at such irregular times that we did not suspect that they were permanent residents and had a family.

My parents were both only children.

His paternal grandfather was a Scotchman, and his grand parents on his mother's side were Germans, from the country bordering on the Rhine.

To come nearer yet, our own parents by their offences, indiscretion and intemperance, are our mortal enemies.

Her parents were plain, honest folk, of the farmer class, who brought her up in the somewhat strict religious manner of those days.

Of the seventy-six million inhabitants recorded by the 1900 census, ten and a half million were born and brought up in one or other of the European social systems, and the parents of another twenty-six millions were foreigners.

His parents were Scipio and Edith Napoleon, being originally owned by Colonel John S. Sammis of Arlington, Florida and the Floyd family of Saint Marys, Georgia, respectively.

Parents "My parents were Joe Patterson and Mary Adeline Patterson.

I want you both to be my children now, for your parents were the best friends I ever had in the world.

One parent yet is lefta wretched thing, A sad survivor of his buried wife, A palsy-smitten, childish, old, old man, A semblance most forlorn of what he was, A merry cheerful man.

Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Nelson, Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 76 "My parents was Jazz Nelson and Mahaney Nelson.

thy parent was a rock, And fierce Hyrcanian tigers gave thee suck.' 612. VIRG.

That this parent was a man of no common attainments, appears from a poem which his son addressed to him when he had attained his twenty-first year, and in which he acknowledged with gratitude the instructions he had received from him in the arts of painting, poetry, and music.

Only, I'm thinkin' yer parents 'll be wantin' ye to keep the hoose the nicht.' Macgregor's collar seemed to be getting tight, for he tugged at it as he said: 'I'll tell them I'm gaun oot to see you.' 'That'll but double the trouble,' she said, lightly.

Thus parents is always masculine, and must be represented by a masculine pronoun, for the gender of a word is a property indivisible, and that which refers to the male sex, always takes the lead in such cases.

His parents were prophets when they called him Felix, for his life was happy, though he enjoyed it only thirty-eight years, and though it was not without its disappointments and rebuffs,being a Christianised Jew, he was acceptable to neither the Jews nor the Gentiles.

No, nohad it come to pass, now, that my parents had been a king and a queen, and that I was to succeed 'em on the throne, I should reign as King Moses Marble, or not reign at all.

Her parents, Bernard Emmerich and Anne Hiller, were poor peasants, but distinguished for their piety and virtue.

Both her parents were cotton pickers and as a little girl Della often went with her parents into the fields.

My parents was Mariah Thermon and Johnson Mayo.

86 Metaphors for  parents