`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.

Frederick Seward said his father was sleeping, and then went through a pantomime at his father's door, to prove the statement.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

Moreover, nursing various Stubblefields -- her aunt, then her mother, then her father -- through their lengthy illnesses ( everybody could tell you the Stubblefields were always sick ), Theresa had had a chance to read quite a lot.

Aegisthus and Clytemnestra then ruled Agamemnon's kingdom for a time, Aegisthus claiming his right of revenge for Agamemnon's father Atreus having fed Thyestes his own children ( Thyestes then crying out " So perish all the race of Pleisthenes!

Andrew's father, William Carnegie, started off working in a cotton mill but then would earn money weaving and peddling linens.

By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus ( father of Achilles ), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to the two others, both of whom contrived to kill Phocus during a contest, and then fled from their native island.

His mother then told him the identity of his father and that he should take the weapons back to him at Athens and be acknowledged.

When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam ( 1 Sam.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

Charles was born in Florence, Tuscany, where his father was then Grand Duke.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

She says she has been treated like a doll to play with, first by her father and then by him.

* Peter Jay's appointment as British Ambassador to the U. S. by his father in law, the then Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan.

Frances was by then living with her parents in Scarborough, but Elsie's father told Gardner that he had been so certain the photographs were fakes that while the girls were away he searched their bedroom and the area around the beck ( stream ), looking for scraps of pictures or cutouts, but found nothing " incriminating ".

Her father then sets out with Laura in a carriage for the ruined village of Karnstein.

His father moved his family to France and then Germany while Sun Yat-sen was struggling against contentious warlords in China.

Researchers then compared the affected patient's genome to the genomes of the patient's mother, father, and seven siblings with and without the disease.

Christian's death depressed him and he was plagued by suicidal thoughts: " I live with the dead — my mother, my sister, my grandfather, my father … Kill yourself and then it's over.

The gods then seek help elsewhere, and the patriarchal Enlil, their father, God of Nippur, promises to solve the problem if they make him King of the Gods.

In the stanza that follows, the völva describes that Odin's " tall child of Triumph's Sire " ( Odin's son Víðarr ) will then come to " strike at the beast of slaughter ," and with his hands, he will drive a sword onto the heart of " Hveðrungr's son ," avenging the death of his father.

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

He was born and raised in Weston Favell, then a small village near the English town of Northampton in which Crick ’ s father and uncle ran the family ’ s boot and shoe factory.

Arnulf had in fact ruled Bavaria during the summer and autumn of 879 while his father arranged his succession and he himself was granted " Pannonia ," in the words of the Annales Fuldenses, or " Carantanum ," in the words of Regino of Prüm.

After the death of his father in 1464, Albert and Ernest ruled their lands together, but in 1485 a division was made by the Treaty of Leipzig, and Albert received the Meissen, together with some adjoining districts, and founded the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin.

With Hippias's father Peisistratus, the family had ruled for 36 out of the previous 50 years and fully intended to continue Hippias's rule.

His mother's father, also called Cuitlahuac, had been ruler of Itztapalapan, and the younger Cuitláhuac also ruled there initially.

Although Cesare Borgia's father gave him the power to set up, Cesare ruled the Romagna with skill and tact for the most part.

Harkonnen's father had been the head of House Harkonnen and ruled the planet Giedi Prime.

The family reached the peak of its power under Fujiwara no Michinaga ( 966-1027 ), a longtime kampaku who was the grandfather of three emperors, the father of six empresses or imperial consorts, and the grandfather of seven additional imperial consorts ; it is no exaggeration to say that it was Michinaga who ruled Japan during this period, not the titular Emperors.

His father, Regent Heungseon Daewongun, ruled for him until Gojong reached adulthood.

In June 1888 Wilhelm II became Emperor after the death of his father Frederick III, who ruled for only 99 days.

According to the Jordanes ' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this " father of the Ostrogoths ", but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people.

The Ptolemaic dynasty, (, sometimes also known as the Lagids or Lagides,, from the name of Ptolemy I's father, Lagus ) was a Macedonian Greek royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt during the Hellenistic period.

Julius Nyerere, independence leader and " baba wa taifa " ( father of the nation ), ruled the country for decades.

Lyonesse was ruled by Guinevere's father until his death, after which Guinevere became the " Lady of Lyonesse.

He had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from c. 1483.

Having outlived his father Philip, Charles succeeded Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, and thus ruled both the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire simultaneously.

* Jaunutis initially ruled Vilnius after the death of his father

His father Abas, son of the last surviving Aegyptiad Lynceus and the Danaid Hypermnestra, had ruled over Argos and married Aglaea or Ocalea, who bore him twin sons, Proetus and Acrisius, who quarreled continually ever since they still were in the womb.

Sviatoslav's father, Igor, was killed by the Drevlians around 945 and his mother, Olga, ruled as regent in Kiev until Sviatoslav's maturity ( ca.

He also ruled as co-emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177 until his father's death in 180.

After a lengthy fight and DNA testing an American court ruled in 1989 that Jones is the boy's father.

Owain followed his father on the throne of Gwynedd the following year and ruled until his death in 1170.

* Nawab Khwaja Abid Siddiqi and Nawab Qaziuddin Siddiqi, grandfather and father of Mir Qamaruddin Siddiqi Asaf Jah I whose dynasty ruled Hyderabad Deccan for seven generations from 1724 to 1951

He has officially succeeded his father as king in 230 BC, but the kingdom has been ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta and then taken over by the Romans who have placed Demetrius of Pharos in the young king's place.