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father and .
`` Yes, like a father and son ''.
My father ran him off here six years ago ''.
`` It wouldn't matter to my father, and not to me.
`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.
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.
Certainly, she wouldn't dare ask her father afterward.
So far as he knew, only his father could be there.
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.
some women with father fixations do.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
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.
But surprisingly, Kitty's face came up and she said, `` My father.
The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.
His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.
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.
In one of his summers at home he married, to the great disapproval of his father, who objected because of his extreme youth.
By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.
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.
He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.
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 was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

father and mobster
A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with ; a mobster whom her father had previously got an acquittal for on a murder charge.
Danny is told to kill his stepfather, Burt Campbell, Mary's current husband, who, Danny is told, murdered his father Johnny, who was also a mobster.
* Santo Trafficante, Sr. ( 1886 – 1954 ) Sicilian-born mobster, and father of the powerful mobster Santo Trafficante, Jr.
Santo Trafficante, Sr. ( born May 28, 1886 in Cianciana, Sicily ; died August 11, 1954, in Tampa, Florida ) was a Sicilian-born mobster, and father of the powerful mobster Santo Trafficante, Jr.
Despite being a loving father and grandfather, grooming his own son, namesake " Little " Carmine Lupertazzi, by making him a capo in the crime family that bears his name, he remained foremost a ruthless mobster, making threats and ordering murders.
He is the father of small-time mobster and Lufthansa heist suspect, Frankie Burke, as well as of Jesse James Burke, Catherine Burke ( who married Bonanno crime family member Anthony Indelicato in 1992 ), and another unidentified daughter.
* Easy Street ( book ), a memoir by Susan Berman about her mobster father, David Berman
John Angelo Gotti III or " Junior " Gotti ( born February 14, 1964 ) is a former New York City mobster who in the 1990s, according to law enforcement claims, was acting boss of the Gambino crime family of Cosa Nostra from 1992 to 1999 after his father, John J. Gotti, was sent to prison.
He was the younger brother of mobster Frank " Skippy " Cerone and father of lawyer, John Peter Cerone and husband to the late Clara Cerone.
When Coonan was a young man, Mickey Spillane, a well-known mobster, kidnapped his father John, a local accountant.
She then used this philosophy to great advantage when she helped a mobster rob her father to save her own life.

father and who
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.
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.
Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.
With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter:
A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.
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.
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.
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.
Miss Katherine Vickery, who attends Sweet Briar College in Virginia, will rejoin her father, Dr. Eugene Vickery, at the family home in Richmond pl. Wednesday for part of the Carnival festivities.
My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.
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.
She did suddenly, through the link of memory with his father, old Titus, who must have been in his nineties when Henrietta ran away.
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.
Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.
It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

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