It is rumored that the great general Alexander Suvorov owed his career as a soldier to Gannibal, who convinced Suvorov's father to let his son pursue a military career.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His father was a constant visitor.

De Lesseps was also entrusted by his father with missions to Marshal Count Clausel, general-in-chief of the army of occupation in Algeria.

Diocles ' parents were of low status, and writers critical of him claimed that his father was a scribe or a freedman of the senator Anullinus, or even that Diocles was a freedman himself.

His father was Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer, who as a senator of praetorian rank would spend much of his time in Rome.

His father was initially a member of the equestrian class, but was later elevated to the rank of senator.

* Brabantio, a Venetian senator, Gratiano's brother, and Desdemona's father

His father Francesco Sfondrati, a senator of the ancient comune of Milan, was created Cardinal-Priest by Pope Paul III in 1544.

* Marcus Ulpius Traianus, senator and father of emperor Trajan

Aurelian was born in Serdica ( today Sofia in Bulgaria ) in Moesia or what was later called Dacia Ripensis to an obscure provincial family ; his father was tenant to a senator named Aurelius, who gave his name to the family.

Her father, Christian Heinrich Trosiener, was also a senator in the city.

* Temple Lea Houston, 1860 – 1905 ( named after Margaret's father ) ( state senator of Texas legislature, 1885 – 1888 )

His father worked as a stenographer in the office of a lawyer and senator, but died when Carl was two years old.

Sheffield is the birthplace of Arthur Alexander, " country-soul pioneer " and songwriter, French horn player Willie Ruff, notable attorney, actor, former senator and presidential contender Fred Thompson, Watergate committee U. S. Senator Howell Heflin and U. S. Senator Mitch McConnell, whose father was working in nearby Athens, AL, when he was born in Sheffield.

* Dale M. Erdey, current state senator from Livingston Parish and former mayor of Livingston, Erdey's father, Nick Erdey had served as mayor years earlier and has been known as the best mayor to date to server the community, with Dale Erdey being the worse.

* Grady Hazlewood, Texas state senator from 1941 – 1971 and the father of the farm-to-market road system, was reared on a farm near Canyon.

His father, Heliodorus, had not been a senator, but was nonetheless a man of some standing: he had been Hadrian's ab epistulis, followed the emperor on his travels, and was prefect of Egypt at the end of Hadrian's reign.

The second chairman was Prescott Bush, a future senator and father to one future president, and the grandfather to another.

Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel ( 1819 – 1904 ), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile ( 1851 – 1859 ), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III.

He is the father of John E. Sununu, a former senator from New Hampshire.

His grandfather André Maistre, who came from Provence, had been a draper and councilman in Nice ( then under the rule of the House of Savoy ), and his father François-Xavier, who moved to Chambéry in 1740, became a magistrate and senator, eventually receiving the title of count from the King of Piedmont-Sardinia.

His father was a first cousin and business partner of Moses Elias Levy, father of future Florida senator David Levy Yulee.

His father, intending to fit him for a career as a Bernese senator of the traditional type, was alarmed at the tone of his letters from Geneva, and recalled his son to Bern.

Martin Behaim, the father, had many businesses including some in Venice, and later became an elected senator ( 1461 ), eventually dying in 1474 ( Agnes Schopper died on 8 July 1487 ).

His father was Sextus Quinctilius Varus, a senator aligned with the conservative republicans in the civil war against Julius Caesar.

Priscus Attalus was a Greek from Asia whose father had moved to Italy under Valentinian I. Attalus was an important senator in Rome, who served as praefectus urbi in 409.

In 1976, Leavitt assisted his father, then a state senator, in an unsuccessful campaign for governor.