64674 examples of father in sentences

In this country they believe that water is life; thus harking back to the teaching of the Father of Philosophy, to Thales of Miletus, who lived six hundred years before Christ: "The principle of all things is water, all comes from water, and to water all returns."

'Mr. Boswell, who between his father's merit and his own is sure of reception wherever he comes, sent a servant before,' &c. Johnson's Works, ix.

According to Mrs. Piozzi (Anec. p. 5), Johnson said that his 'father's brother, Andrew, kept the ring in Smithfield (where they wrestled and boxed) for a whole year, and never was thrown or conquered.

The young lord was married on the 8th of May, 1728, and the father's will is dated the 6th of Nov. following.

'I may finish my letter,' he writes, 'especially as the conclusion of it naturally turns my thoughts from Yahoos to one of the dearest pledges I have upon earth, yourself, to whom I am a most Affectionate Father, 'ORRERY.' See ante, i. 275-284, for Johnson's letters to Thomas Warton, many of which end 'in studied varieties of phrase.'

Miss Burney wrote of him in 1780:'My father has very exactly named him, in calling him a philosophical gossip.'

Boswell's mother's grandmother was a Bruce of the Earl of Kincardine's family, and so also was his father's mother.

As they approached Auchinleck, Boswell conjured Johnson by all the ties of regard, and in requital of the services he had rendered him upon his tour, that he would spare two subjects in tenderness to his father's prejudices; the first related to Sir John Pringle, president of the Royal Society, about whom there was then some dispute current: the second concerned the general question of Whig and Tory.

Jamie then set to mediating between his father and the philosopher, and availing himself of the judge's sense of hospitality, which was punctilious, reduced the debate to more order.

He was two nights at Auchinleck, and you may figure the joy of my worthy father and me at seeing the Corsican hero in our romantic groves.'

Boswell wrote on June 19, 1775:'My father harps on my going over Scotland with a brute (think, how shockingly erroneous!), and wandering (or some such phrase) to London.'

[1045] 'The late Sir Alexander Boswell,' wrote Sir Walter Scott, 'was a proud man, and, like his grandfather, thought that his father lowered himself by his deferential suit and service to Johnson.

What, then, if he were not her father?

Even if you are" She was going on to say "if you are my father," but caught herself in time.

It is I, Prince Victor, your father.

I, Prince Victor Vassilyevski, am your father.

"Father always will have him kept on the chain, andand" "An infernally cruel thing to do!" broke indignantly from Piers.

"I hope Father won't mind," she said.

He dares do anything but fight, and fears nothing but his father's life, and minority.

His pedigree and his father's seal-ring are the stilts of his crazed disposition.

His father hath writ him as his own little story, wherein he reads those days of his life that he cannot remember, and sighs to see what innocence he hath out-lived.

The elder he grows, he is a stair lower from God; and, like his first father, much worse in his breeches.

The root of his disease is a self-humouring pride, and an accustomed tenderness not to be crossed in his fancy; and the occasion commonly of one of these three, a hard father, a peevish wench, or his ambition thwarted.

His father has done with him as Pharaoh to the children of Israel, that would have them make brick and give them no straw, so he tasks him to be a gentleman, and leaves him nothing to maintain it.

"Ah, if only your father would come!"

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