Word: father
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...institution of which he was the founder. Here he had brought together an able and a large corps of coworkers, who carried into the prosecution of their work that enthusiasm which he, above all others, could inspire. All, young and old, loved him as a child loves a father, and the tearful eyes of some, the sad faces of all, which the announcement of his death caused, as they were assembling Monday morning to begin their week's work, only faintly indicated the grief felt at the removal of the sustaining hand...
...FATHER" who was reading the report of some college meeting, in which the names of many undergraduates and their classes were given, - Mr. - '74, Mr. - '75, etc., - asked his son how it was that so many of the students seemed to occupy the same room...
...Tozer's father. - Heaven defend...
...human ramrod Tozer's father...
...Cuba, it's Patchoughe, Long Island, and he 's a colporteur, and we are children of wrath. Band (three men and a reporter) advance and corroborate; also arrest us for vagrancy. Loathsome Bastiles. Bailed out by colporteur, who proves to be connected by marriage with Freshman's god-father. Afterwards learn that the blockade-runner only escaped by going to pieces. Crew saved by a large Newfoundland dog. Hate grinding up back work...