14 Verbs to Use for the Word paternity

O'Brallaghan, growing very red in the face, observed that Mr. Jinks owed his paternity to a "gun.

Stretched on the unfilial instrument of torture that bears his name, he is made to confess the paternity of draff, and dregs, and dross, and so many other uncleanly brats, that we feel as if he ought to be nailed by the ear to the other side of the same post on which Mr. Carlyle has pilloried August der starke forever.

Yet there was no secrecy concerning the paternity of the Countess, and it was, of course, well-known in the German Courts.

Her father believed he had reason to doubt his paternity, though she loved him with passionate tenderness; and after making her a yearly allowance of six hundred francs, he disinherited her in favour of his only son, who was to be the sole successor to his millions.

In front, three attendants minister to the Infant: one of them is in an attitude of admiration; on the right, Joachim seated, with white hair and beard, receives the congratulations of a young man who seems to envy his paternity.

It explains the share he took in more than one literary enterprise, and establishes his paternity of the translation of "Gil Blas," which has been questioned by Scott and ignored by other critics.

She did not idealize paternity.

I recognise the paternity, while I watch my tulips.

I recognize the paternity while I watch my tulips.

You may have got her out of the house of Meggat's Land in the Canongate from a mannot Mr. Napier, you admitwho may have been the father of it by some mother residing in the house; and Mrs. Kemp may have been actuated, by some unknown means, to remove the paternity from the right to the wrong person.

One day, having been imprisoned for some verses which were not his, he had taken the resolution to impudently repudiate the paternity of his own works.

Leif acknowledged his paternity, and some men will have it that this Thorgils came to Iceland in the summer before the Froda-wonder.

But we cannot trace the paternity of these sayings any more than we can that of the lightning retort of the man to whom one of the "quality" had given a glass of whisky.

I trust it will not be deemed egotistical on my part if, while conscious of the unfeigned desire to concede to all who are attempting improvements in the art of telegraphy that which belongs to them, I should now and then recognize the familiar features of my own offspring and claim their paternity.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  paternity