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.

Once again B'dikkat moved among them like a father ; ;

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Following various business failures, Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives.

Van Vogt's father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life:

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.

Later the family moved to the country's capital Kabul where his father served as a colonel in the Afghan Army.

His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, was a successful goldsmith, originally named Ajtósi, who in 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós, near Gyula in Hungary.

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

One source for this was when, as a very young boy, he would hear his father, grandfather, and cowboys give out loud cries when the music moved them.

In 1885, Young moved with his father to Nebraska, and in the summer of 1887, they returned to Gilmore.

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

Cesare was also father to at least 11 illegitimate children, among them Girolamo Borgia, who married Isabella Contessa di Carpi, and Lucrezia Borgia, who, after Cesare's death, was moved to Ferrara to the court of her aunt, Lucrezia Borgia.

They lived in Portland in his early years, and moved to the countryside to Johnson Creek when he was 9 or 10, after the death of his father.

At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager ( Hopper has acknowledged, though, that his father was in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in China with Mao Zedong ).

After his adoptive mother's death when he was 5, his father moved around the country seeking work.

In 1882 Runyon's father was forced to sell his newspaper, and the family moved westward.

When Elizabeth was 3 years old, the family moved to 142 Long Acre, where they were to live for 2 years, whilst two more children were born and her father moved up in the world, becoming not only the manager of a larger pawnbroker ’ s shop, but also a silversmith.

In 1824, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary gifts flourished.

When Satie was four years old, his family moved to Paris, his father having been offered a translator's job in the capital.

When Edward was four his father died and his mother moved to London.

Hubble's father had in 1909 moved his family from Chicago to Shelbyville, Kentucky, so that the family could live in a small town, ultimately settling in nearby Louisville.

His father moved inland to the town of Mugron with Frédéric following soon after.