`` 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.

For instance, Joseph Haydn once remarked that he was glad his father ( a wheelwright ) had lived long enough to see his son become a Kapellmeister.

" In later years Scott remarked to John Betjeman, " I always think that my father was a genius.

Club in 2010, Shawkat remarked that many of her " formative moments " as an actress took place on the Arrested Development set: " creator Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me ... In a way, it was great to be around cast, because I feel that my understanding of comedy was able to grow really well during that time.

His father remarked that it was at that age that the parents " first noticed that he had a great voice ".

He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London — Delgado often remarked to Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee, a close friend, that this made him a true Cockney, as he was born within the sound of the Bow bells — although his mother was Belgian and his father Spanish.

His father had attended the college, and he later remarked that " I was an Illini from birth ".

On succeeding his illustrious father he was said to have remarked: " Imagine what it will be when the Duke of Wellington is announced, and only I walk in the room .." The relationship between father and son is often described as the classic case of the son of a famous father who is never able to live up to his legacy.

" Asked about her relationship with her father, Kapoor remarked " My father is ... an important factor in my life.

In October of that year he remarked on the difficulty of the task, saying " First we had to shut that John Birch father of his up, and then the National Guard thing hit.

Ware met his father only once in adulthood — while he was working on this book — and has remarked that his father's attempts at humor and casualness were not unlike those he'd already created for Jimmy's father in the book.

( When reminded of the Psi Corps motto " The Corps is mother, the Corps is father " by Bester, she pointedly remarked that she was an orphan.

Colin Baker remarked that he could afford this luxury because he had built up a private income by the mid-1980s and had inherited a considerable sum of money from his father.

Liu Bang remarked that he and Xiang Yu were oath brothers, so if Xiang killed Liu's father, he would be guilty of patricide.

Or, as Thomas Tomkinson drily remarked, it tends to give you a father of justice just when you most wanted a son of mercy.

When Nero castrated a boy named Sporus and married him as a wife, Suetonius quoted one Roman who lived around this time who remarked that the world would have been better off if Nero's father had married someone more like the castrated boy.

The officiating chaplain Humphrey Tyndall later remarked that the bride wore a " loose gown " ( an informal morning dress ), which has triggered modern speculation that she was pregnant and that the ceremony happened under pressure from her father.

Her father supposedly remarked that if Sarah had only been a boy, " she would have made the greatest jurist in the country " Not only did the denial of education seem unfair, Sarah was further perplexed that while her parents and others within the community encouraged slaves to be baptized and to attend worship services, these believers were not viewed as true brothers and sisters in faith.

Once, while in conversation with Hoste's father, Nelson remarked:

Her father supposedly remarked that if she " had not been a woman, she would have made the greatest jurist in the land.

His father remarked to him by saying “ Archie, my smart boy, never give up your smartness ; that goes for you and your brother Quentin ”.