`` 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.

Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.

My father, a wise man, asked him not to.

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.

At the inquest she was asked specifically whether she knew anybody her father had bad feelings toward, or who had bad feelings toward her father.

A story is preserved that once when he was a child, his father took him to the Kaaba, and asked him to pray before the idols.

Tabari, the most famous Muslim historian, in his Ta ' rikh quotes from Muhammad Bin Sa ' ad Bin Abi Waqqas, who said: " I asked my father whether Abu Bakr was the first of the Muslims.

The father of Abu Bakr asked him to for why doesn't he liberate strong and young slaves who could be a source of strength for him, Abu Bakr replied that he was freeing the slaves for the sake of God, and not for his own sake.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

In 2004, Chiang Fang-liang, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo, asked that both father and son be buried at Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery in Xizhi, Taipei County ( now New Taipei City ).

Albert illegally took control of some imperial fiefs and then asked to marry Kunigunde ( who lived in Innsbruck, far from her father ), offering to give her the fiefs as a dowry.

When his father Valerian was proclaimed Emperor on 22 October 253, he asked the Senate to ratify Gallienus ' elevation to Caesar and Augustus, in order to share the power between two persons.

Hera, Ares ' mother, saw Ares ' interference and asked Zeus, Ares ' father, for permission to drive Ares away from the battlefield.

Nonetheless, during his childhood, no one ever asked any questions about what his mother and father had suffered.

He asked Medea to take some years from his life and add them to the life of his father.

Early in 1748 he was rescued by a sea captain who had been asked by Newton's father to search for him, he made it to freedom.

Joseph swore to do as his father asked of him.

When her father asked who could ease all the above, Miaoshan pointed out that a doctor was able to do all of these.

Her father eventually allowed her to work in the temple, but asked the monks to give her the toughest chores in order to discourage her.

One childhood story he has told that introduced him to politics was how at the age of 8, he asked his father for a raise in his allowance.

Sinatra's father asked her to sing it on his 1966 TV special A Man and His Music-Part II.

When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that " Nobody " is hurting him, so the others assume that, " If alone as you are none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus ; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon ".

He is upset by this development because he loves Desdemona and had previously asked her father for her hand in marriage.

When asked about her father, Raghad told CNN, " He was a very good father, loving, has a big heart.