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Usage examples of fathers.

They lauded me for having with proper modesty refrained from quoting the holy fathers of the Church, whom at my age I could not be supposed to have sufficiently studied, and the ladies particularly admired me because there was no Latin in it but the Text from Horace, who, although a great libertine himself, has written very good things.

But what I could not, and probably never shall, understand, was the reason for which the Fathers, who were not so simple or so ignorant as our Evangelists, did not feel able to deny the divinity of oracles, and, in order to get out of the difficulty, ascribed them to the devil.

All the same, I could not help bursting into laughter when he told us of something that happened as he was dining with the Fathers of the Council of Trent.

Such were the words by which I was everywhere introduced, and which, the moment they were uttered, called upon me the silent observation of every young man of my age and condition, the compliments of all fathers, and the caresses of old women, as well as the kisses of a few who, although not old, were not sorry to be considered so for the sake of embracing a young man without impropriety.

I desire that what I say may be a warning to fathers and mothers, and secure me a place in their esteem at any rate.

Italy as in France the idea that our nobles are the sons of their nominal fathers is a purely conventional one.

A miracle of heaven replaced me on the throne of my fathers after five-and-twenty years of exile.

Is it the custom in Marseilles for sons to keep their fathers waiting in their anterooms?

Villefort could lavish the tenderness some fathers do on their daughters.

Maximilian, whether in former days, when our fathers dwelt at Marseilles, there was ever any misunderstanding between them?

So important a negotiation should, I think, be conducted by the respective fathers of the young people.

I am your only daughter, and you are not so exacting as the fathers of the Porte Saint-Martin and Gaiete, who disinherit their daughters for not giving them grandchildren.

Her particular fondness was for divorced fathers who got to spend only every other Christmas with their children.

Whatever had been the charm of those divorced fathers, taking perpetual vacations with their subdued children, it had finally worn thin with her.

Perhaps the sexual disapproval of the Puritan fathers has seeped into my core.