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Usage examples of father.

They all shuffle, all these strange lonely children of God, these mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives whose noisy aberrations are safely muffled now by drugs.

Beyond that, I have no knowledge of how my father managed to enhance psychic ability in the men.

I am ignorant by what arts they could determine the lofty emperor of the Greeks to abjure the catechism of his infancy, and to persecute the religion of his fathers.

When we went on holidays, we called it going pink-eye, my Aboriginal father carried me on his shoulders when I was tired.

Father Marcus was an Uraluran, converted and ordained, abrim with zeal.

The child, no matter how abused, still wanted to love and admire her parents, and particularly her father.

Miss A had almost certainly told Graham Letts that she had been abused by her father and her brother at the age of twelve, and she may well have told Rosemary West exactly the same thing during their conversations in Cromwell Street.

I mean, why take his word for it that he caught your father abusing you?

Not long afterwards, they repeated the experiment, this time by persuading their mother and father to watch the episodes of the television serial Brookside which dealt with a sexually abusive father who was buried under the patio.

Rosemary West, too, was the daughter of a dominant and abusive father, a man whose actions she also idealised.

You get older daughters trying to protect younger siblings by doing anything they can to keep the abusive father focused on them.

If your mother was abused by her father, she may well have married a sexually abusive man.

I remembered all along that my father had been abusive, only I did not consistently remember.

Africa had been abysmal, though in truth his aim had been more to occupy himself and to avoid his father, than to add to his income.

I confess that I have not yet repented on his account, for Capitani thought he had duped me in accepting it as security for the amount he gave me, and the count, his father, valued it until his death as more precious than the finest diamond in the world.