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When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
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.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.
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.
He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.
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 ).
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, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.
Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;
Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
His father was a constant visitor.

father and good
`` Your dad sounds like a good father and a good policeman.
There were several fairly good minor portraits in the play, including William Hansen's impersonation of a stubborn, rather pathetic father, and Katherine Squire's vigorous characterization of a farm mother who brooked no hifalutin' nonsense from her daughter, or anyone else.
Her father wrote of it, " I see nothing in the way of a good appreciation of Louisa's merits as a woman and a writer.
It was a good match since she was a sister of Louis XIII ( their father, Henry IV, had died during her childhood ).
Niccolò Machiavelli cites Cesare's dependence on the good will of the Papacy, under the control of his father, to be the principal weakness of his rule.
One of Thomas ' last poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", was a villanelle to his father, who died from pneumonia just before Christmas 1952.
Galen describes his father as a " highly amiable, just, good and benevolent man ".
Indeed Homer places Hector as peace-loving, thoughtful as well as bold, a good son, husband and father, and without darker motives.
Part of a well-established and colorful Boston family, Melville's father spent a good deal of time abroad as a commission merchant and an importer of French dry goods.
Two awards are presented each year, one to a Houston Astro and one to a St. Louis Cardinal, each of whom exemplifies Kile's virtues of being " a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man.
According to an interview in The Source, he blamed the heart attack on stress brought on by his worries about being a good father.
When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.
After Njörðr's reign, his son Freyr replaces him, and he is greatly loved and " blessed by good seasons like his father.
Bennett's father does not appear to have been a good provider for his family, though the reason is unclear.
His father considered his ill-health as a good reason for another European tour.
When asked about her father, Raghad told CNN, " He was a very good father, loving, has a big heart.
But it's more than that ; no mere carrot-and-stick affair ; because implicit in the game is unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil ; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent ; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother.
She drew often ; at ten, for example, she had drawn a good chalk likeness of her father.
The wealth that his father had acquired in the building of the Baku-Batumi railway was used to fund a good education for Lev.
Her father, King Philip, known as " le Bel " ( the Fair ) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man ; contemporaries described him as " neither a man nor a beast, but a statue "; modern historians have noted that he " cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh ".
Lysander's father was Aristocleitus, who was a member of the Spartan Heracleidae ; that is, like most Dorian men of good family, he claimed descent from Heracles.
Titus, of the same surname as his father, was the delight and darling of the human race ; such surpassing ability had he, by nature, art, or good fortune, to win the affections of all men, and that, too, which is no easy task, while he was emperor.

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