As he watches Tadzio play, Aschenbach feels what he describes as a fatherly sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
And to me they talked in fatherly ways, patronizing my youth and inexperience. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4: Slaves of the Machine] Reference
He now saw clearly that all that he had been calling fatherly tenderness, pastoral zeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
Terrence McFane said in fatherly tones. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXII] Reference
In his turn, he then batted his eyelids, with a kind of fatherly air. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Little Joke]
He looked at me with the kind of fatherly concern designed to determine who put a dent in the family car. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Drexler: When Doctors Don't Listen] Reference
We begin tonight with the search for Natalee Holloway and the kind of fatherly advice you would never want to hear. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2005] Reference
What kind of fatherly advice is he giving his daughter, his little girl, who goes off to college -- that you can tell us?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
The "fatherly" punishment inflicted by the local authorities upon their. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)] Reference
Lawrence with a blush, for he was too young to act the "fatherly" part well. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America] Reference
But Eli made atonement for his rash, unfriendly censure by a kind of fatherly benediction. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
Young as he was, he felt a kind of fatherly interest in the child -- she had been so often thrown upon him for sympathy and protection. From Wordnik.com. [Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel] Reference
"fatherly" stuff he does with his children to make himself look good, and ahem. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
(and that is the only fair way of judging our fellows) he had acted in a kind of fatherly way. From Wordnik.com. [My Brilliant Career] Reference
And when they're not, then I have a kind of fatherly notion of interfering, and seeing what's wrong. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
Mr. Dundas will give you a kind of fatherly relation with Leam that may show you the truth of what I say. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Some have dubbed him "Papa" Moran; he is so fatherly they say. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
There was one fat, fatherly robin that became Tania's particular friend. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
In fact, my friend Bain seemed to take more than a fatherly interest in her. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Of course love (fatherly -- uh, yeah) for little Natalie redeems the hit man. From Wordnik.com. [Have A Heart, Hit Man] Reference
There was the fatherly-looking old person almost bending over her chair back. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
The fatherly interest which he takes in his creations does credit to his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
Mr. EDEN: (as Detective Inspector Parker) Take a fatherly interest in your ambition. From Wordnik.com. ['Lord Peter' Returns, And It's No Mystery Why] Reference
I sauntered out, gin-and-tonic in hand, warming up to my best fatherly-advice tone. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Party Advice, From Father to Son] Reference
What she would have wanted — it was obvious to Fedder — was a firm, fatherly touch. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Despite his fatherly guilt, Lee still initially resisted Harrison's proposal to cut back. From Wordnik.com. [Living With Less Power] Reference
So gently and fatherly he had said it, that she did not realize its full import till now. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
It is natural, it is human, it is fatherly, it is pathetic and beautiful, but it is not heroic. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Young Man Absalom Safe? A Sermon Preached in The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Stoke Bishop, on Sunday, July 19th, 1885] Reference
Happily, however, the fatherly kindness of the General had despatched a hamper of provisions from. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Maybe thirteen or thereabout, ma'am, poor, small thing," he replied with a dash of fatherly love. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
One was Education Secretary Richard Riley, who once enjoyed a somewhat fatherly relationship with the president. From Wordnik.com. [Collateral Damage] Reference
The only "fatherly editing" I received was a demand that I change my intended major from journalism to economics. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Into College, Whatever It Takes] Reference
Honey, I hot tailed up there to see him because he was such a fatherly-type man that you always went when James called. From Wordnik.com. [‘He Kept It Funky’] Reference
At the same time, he started assuming fatherly roles with young male parishioners, with whom he frequently talked and wrestled. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions Of A Fallen Priest] Reference
Bits with Ben Stiller courting Phoenix for a role, and Edward James Olmos giving New Age fatherly advice are like hilarious improvs. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Still Here,' A Fully Committed Joaquin Phoenix] Reference
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