What is "paternal"

Usage examples of "paternal".

As the carriage entered upon the forest that adjoined his paternal domain, his eyes once more caught, between the chesnut avenue, the turreted corners of the chateau.

The scar which my late amours had left was still bleeding, and I was glad to think that I should be able to restore the young Marseillaise to the paternal hearth without any painful partings or vain regrets.

He thanked me in a paternal manner for my kindness to his daughter, and begged me to do him the honour of dining with him on the following day, telling me that he would introduce me to his wife.

Innocenza Bordon, daughter of a mercenary soldier from the far-away Venetian countryside, unable to read or write, with her hands scarred with cuts, with no one but herself to care for in the whole world, feels pity for the great Duchess who is descended directly from Adam through the paternal line.

No matter how crooked he might be, Brye was still her father and recognized his paternal obligation beyond all else.

However, both Garry and Centaine had kept his paternal indulgence in check.

Barnes left a lecture for researchers from his planet and joined Clocker with no more than polite curiosity on his paternal face.

He prided himself on the fact that his hotel was not like other New York hotels, which were run by impersonal companies and shareholders and boards of directors, and consequently lacked the paternal touch which made the Cosmopolis what it was.

The rapid transition from carnal to paternal love cast my physical and mental faculties into such a state of excitement that I could scarcely withstand the fierce struggle that was taking place in my heart.

God smiled on me, and with His paternal hand invited me to seat myself in His house, on His red drugget, in His gilt armchair.

A theory circulated that Henry, having lost confidence in the beneficiaries of Montmirail, who had proved ungrateful for his paternal liberality, weighed the possibility of repudiating that Poitevin brood of eaglets, retrieving his misprized gifts, and setting up the child John, who had shared neither the dispositions of Montmirail nor the unfilial upbringing of his elder brothers, as the chief heir and object of his bounty.

When we were at London he heard that she had left the paternal roof about the middle of Lent.

His father was extremely fond of him up to the time when he was obliged to resist the paternal orders in deference to State reasons.

His chief assistant was a man called Hoong Liang, an old servant in the Dee paternal mansion, who had seen Judge Dee grow up from a small boy.

It was created by the meiotic shuffling process, forged by the coming together of pieces of chromosome from your paternal grandmother and your paternal grandfather.