Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.

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.

My father had none.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

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.

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 ).

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

Edward Greville, born about 1565, had inherited Milcote on the execution of his father Lodowick for murder in 1589.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

Scotty murmured, `` No, thanks '', so softly his father had to bend his gaunt height across the table and turn a round brown ear to him.

The infant, in white terry-cloth bathrobe, her face intense and purposeful, had essayed a few wobbly steps toward her father.

With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter:

Suppose her father had changed his mind and had refused to let her leave??

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

A Mexican justice of the peace had issue a writ against Chavez for taking part in the `` murder '' of Manuel Gonzales so he and his father were anxious to be taken out of danger.

Isaac D ' Israeli, father of Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin is treated as a young child in most of the Biblical narrative, but at one point is abruptly described as the father of ten sons.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

Carreras ' father, Benjamin Nunez, also served as the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel.

Babbage's father, Benjamin Babbage, was a banking partner of the Praeds who owned the Bitton Estate in Teignmouth.

His father, Elias Boudinot III, was a merchant and silversmith ; he was a neighbor and friend of Benjamin Franklin.

Bulwer-Lytton admired Benjamin ’ s father, Isaac D ' Israeli, himself a noted author.

Three of the board members include a founding father of modern chemistry Antoine Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin and an expert in pain control Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

Israel ’ s youngest son Benjamin, born from Rachel, stayed behind by his father ’ s order to keep him safe.

When Reuben, the eldest, mentioned that they needed to bring Benjamin to Egypt to prove their word as honest men, their father became furious with them.

This time, Judah spoke to his father in order to persuade him about having Benjamin accompany them, so as to prevent Egyptian retribution.

It is said in Muslim tradition that Jonah came from the tribe of Benjamin and that his father was Amittai.

His parents, Rose and Benjamin Kurtzberg, were Austrian Jewish immigrants, and his father earned a living as a garment factory worker.

* 1910 – Benzion Netanyahu, Israeli historian, father of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ( d. 2012 )

On 12 August 2008, Benjamin Boukpeti ( born to a Togolese father and a French mother ) won a bronze medal in the Men's K1 Kayak Slalom, the first medal ever won by a member of the Togolese team at the Olympics.

Eventually, in honor of the studio's contributions to the war cause, the United States Government named a Liberty ship after the brothers ' father, Benjamin Warner, and Harry Warner was given the honor of christening the ship.

In Hurst's novel, Bea Chipley is a quiet, mousey, Atlantic City teenage girl whose mother passes away, leaving her to keep house for her father ( Mr. Chipley ) and Benjamin Pullman, a boarder who peddles ketchup and relish on the boardwalk and sells maple syrup door-to-door on the side.

A veteran of the French and Indian War as the " hero " of the fictional " Fort Wilderness " and widowed father of seven children, Benjamin does what he can to avoid fighting in the Revolutionary War knowing the implications surrounding it.

Her feelings towards her father change radically as the film progresses, and after Benjamin leaves from the furlough to rejoin his militia, in a very emotional scene, she seemingly forgives him and tells him she'll say anything he wants to make him stay, to which Benjamin can only promise to return, which Susan accepts.

When Gabriel is taken prisoner and Thomas is killed, he helps his father, Benjamin, rescue Gabriel by killing several British soldiers, even though he doesn't want to kill.

His father Benjamin Clemenceau ( 1810 – 1897 ) came from a long line of physicians, but he lived off his lands and investments and did not practice medicine.

In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.

Some critics, however, view this as a postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.