What is "fatherly"

Usage examples of "fatherly".

We could not, even then, suppose ourselves unhappy unless we dreaded unhappiness after death, and such an idea strikes me as absurd, for it is a contradiction of the idea of an almighty and fatherly tenderness.

The detective extended his hand with a weary and somewhat fatherly manner, and spoke in a hoarse, emphysematous whisper.

He ought to have given you a fatherly admonition, and, above all, enquired as to your health, as we know that you were seriously ill at the time.

I perceived that this consummate hypocrite had counted on an abrupt refusal, and had only made this ridiculous offer with the idea of convincing me that she was under the impression that I had left her daughters as I had found them, and that the money I had spent on them was merely a sign of my tender and fatherly affection.

She had also told him that she felt sure I had conceived a fatherly affection for her, and she had consequently prevailed upon him to call on me, being certain that I would treat him as my own son.

He had told me that his affection for her was of a purely fatherly character, and I took that as a hint not to trespass on his preserves.

Naturally I fell in love with her, but as I was her senior by thirty years, and had begun my addresses in a tone of fatherly affection, a feeling of shame prevented my disclosing to her the real state of my heart.

While he assures himself that this has no effect on his fatherly love, which is of course unconditional, he realizes that Aaron at sixteen is as mockable as Aaron at ten.

Walking among huddled forms in the evening, distributing blankets, food and occasional kisses from the sjambok, you felt like the father colonial policy wanted you to be when it spoke of Vaterliche Zuchtigung: fatherly chastisement, an inalienable right.

A chief was addressing them in fatherly tones, warning them that the district known as Klong Toey, famous as a rough waterfront strip in Bangkok, was strictly off-limits to all Navy personnel.

Francis Yapp, and a very good fatherly sort of man he was in his way, having a family of his own to look after.

At the other end of the chain lay a feeble old wizard bearing a fatherly semblance to Sarmon the Spectacular.

A chief was addressing them in fatherly tones, warning them that the district known as Klong Toey, famous as a rough waterfront strip in Bangkok, was strictly off-limits to all Navy personnel.

Confronted with his real-life son and daughter, Burgo Smyth looked not so much fatherly as grimly angry.

He had watched his daughter step onto the surface of Mars with a mixture of fatherly pride and anxiety that had brought tears to the corners of his eyes.