22859 examples of daughter in sentences

He quotes St. Basil, who calls psalmody the voice of the infant Church, and Urban VIII., who calls psalmody the daughter of hymnody which is chanted before the throne of God in Heaven.

She laid hold of her daughter's arm, and half pulled herself up by it, staring into Johnnie's face as she talked; and out tumbled the whole story of Gray Stoddard's disappearance.

She tugged at a corner of the pillow, fumbled thereunder with her little brown hand, and dragging out Pap Himes's bankbook, showed it to her daughter, opening at that front page where Pap's clumsy characters made Laurella Himes free of all his savings.

"Johnnie seems like a daughter to mean' I know in my soul

no daughter could be kinder.

From morn till eve the streets are filled with bands of boys, and sometimes girls, blowing raucous blasts on hollow bamboos, which are adorned with a tin 'panja,' the sacred open hand emblematical of the Prophet, his daughter Fatima, her husband Ali and their two martyred sons.

The Duchess de Bouillon, Turenne's sister, purer than those we have named, but not less daring or determined, after charming the whole population of Paris by her rebel beauty at the Hôtel de Ville, escaped from her sudden incarceration by walking through the midst of her guards at dusk, crouching in the shadow of her little daughter, and afterwards allowed herself to be recaptured, rather than desert that child's sick-bed.

His wife was Marguerite of Lorraine, who originated the first Fronde insurrection; his daughter turned the scale of the second.

And when the second war of the Fronde broke out, it was in spite of himself that he gave his name and his daughter to the popular cause.

"Break it down, then," coolly suggested the daughter of the House of Orléans; to which his only reply was a profusion of profound bows, and the lady walked on.

Signor Lazzari's handsome and charming daughter was an admirable hostess.

When, Antioch blazing to her topmost towers, You rushed into the murderous flames, returned Blind as the grave, but, as you oft have told me, Clasping your infant Daughter to your heart.

BEGGAR Daughter!

[Aside.] HERBERT Fallen am I, and worn out, a useless Man; Kindly have you protected me to-night, And no return have I to make but prayers; May you in age be blest with such a daughter!

Thou hast left me ears to hear my Daughter's voice, And arms to fold her to my heart.

=A Little Daughter of Liberty.= The author introduces this story as follows: "One ride is memorable in the early history of the American Revolution, the well-known ride of Paul Revere.

His wife and daughter-in-law, mad with terror, threw themselves into a neighbouring stream.

Mr. Hartley being now, as he believed, upon the point of disposing of his daughter in marriage, began seriously to consider that he should want a female companion to manage, his family, to nurse his ailments, and to repair the breaches, that the hand of wintry time had made in his spirits and his constitution.

What would you do, if the brutal lull of an Appius ravished from your arms an only daughter?

And if your daughter be not Mrs. Villiers, I will never be Mrs. Hartley.

" "Then they can't have overlooked the need of physicians," ventured Dan, "especially as Laura is the daughter of one.

"The daughter of a squaw-man then," he said, and there was in his voice the contempt of the white man for the half-breed.

"Daughter of Angus McRae?"

" "No, but of Blackfeet and Bloods and Sarcees," she burst out, again with that flare of feminine ferocity so out of character in an Indian woman or the daughter of one.

All are familiar with his encounter with Goliath, and with his slaughter of the Philistines after he had slain the giant, which called out the admiration of the haughty daughter of the king, the love of the heir-apparent to th

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