In the light from the bedside table his father looked so worried that the promise spilled out.

Harthacnut was a close ally of Svein, but he did not feel his resources were great enough to launch an invasion of Norway, and the half-brothers looked for help from their father, but instead they received news of his death in November 1035.

Malseed adds, " On the second day of the trip, while the group toured a sanitarium in the countryside near Moscow, Sergey took his father aside, looked him in the eye and said, ' Thank you for taking us all out of Russia.

Marriage is treated like a business transaction, something which involves great sums of money ' behind the scenes ', and is often looked on as a father selling a " commodity " to a suitor.

With very limited income, his family moved around the country as his father looked for work, going as far as Montana and California.

Although Zeus, Hercules ' father, is frequently cited by Hercules as a neglectful father, Zeus ' love for Hercules is well documented in the show ( In one episode, Hercules explains to a friend that he looked to father figures because Zeus was never around when he was younger.

did research into Lionel Richie's genealogy and specifically looked at information relating to one of Lionel's great-grandfathers, the father of Lionel's maternal grandmother.

They are being ruthless and most determined .” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “ I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt .” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “ Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency .” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini .. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves.

And I looked and beheld a tree ; and it was like unto the tree which my father had seen ; and the beauty thereof was far beyond, yea, exceeding of all beauty ; and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow.

As a child he looked like his father, Harper Montgomery, and was called Little Brother Harper.

Over the years, she had heard rumors that Clark Gable was her biological father as she looked strikingly like him.

He tries to explain that after Gloria's father died, Steve looked after her like a brother.

' My father looked at me like I was insane.

* a man who paid the bride price but looked for another bride would not get a refund, but he would if the father of the bride refused the match.

* Kahless looked into the ocean and wept, for the sword was all he had left of his father and the sea filled with his tears and flooded beyond the shore.

In the book, The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder writes of her father finding a small bird that looked just like a Great Auk hidden in a haystack after an early October blizzard when the family lived near De Smet, South Dakota around 1880.

As Wolfgang Panofsky related, his father used to call his sons " meine beiden Klempner " (" my two plumbers "), which revealed the usual attitude of the German elite educated in the humanities, who looked down upon those trained in the sciences.

Butler is looked upon as the founding father of the Oilfields Workers ' Trade Union ( OWTU ) and the labour movement and is honoured with a statue in Fyzabad.

After the execution, Ion Rîmaru's father died in a suspicious accident, during which it was discovered that his fingerprints ( and other elements ) matched those of a serial killer in 1944 looked remarkably similar crimes those of Ion Rîmaru, including weather conditions and similar or identical names to some victims.

One such story ( both in Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa ) recounts that her father received a box of peony seeds from the Emperor Taizong of Tang accompanied by a painting of what the flowers looked like.

" Most friends and relatives disapproved of the marriage, including 20th Century Fox and her parents, and it was believed that Darnell looked at Marley more as a father figure than her romantic interest.

Because Fante looked up to his father ( despite their numerous quarrels and fallings-out ) he thus held the trade in very high regard, at times verging on romanticizing the quite difficult work it took.

My father ran him off here six years ago ''.

He would feel ashamed each time and wonder whether his mother and father knew -- thinking they might see it in his eyes or smell it on him.

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, a wise man, asked him not to.

By leaving me everything he wouldn't be doing me a favor, my father told him, and he didn't want to see his daughter involved in a lawsuit.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

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.

Scotty would reply softly and his father, apologetically, would ask him to repeat.

The father, accurately perceiving the child's needs, not only respected them as worthy of his attention, but immediately satisfied them by taking him on his lap along with the twins, saying, `` I have a big lap ; ;

She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

Winslow had musical talents, as had his father before him.

An only child, he had done all the things that young men do who have been born to money and social position until his father double-crossed him by dying broke.

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.

Stuart had been laid off at the produce company and had to go back to sitting in his father's office, taking what salary his father could hand out to him.

She said to him, her father, `` How was I begotten, in pain or joy??

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

Warhol's father immigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents.

Born in Kaysersberg, Schweitzer spent his childhood in the village of Gunsbach, Alsace (), where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, taught him how to play music.

Lastly, his father shows him all of the future heroes of Rome who will live if Aeneas fulfills his destiny in founding the city.

They refused to be separated from him, and built their cells round that of their spiritual father.

André-Marie Ampère took his first regular job in 1799 as a mathematics teacher, which gave him the financial security to marry Carron and father his first child, Jean-Jacques, the next year.