During his lifetime the paterfamilias was the owner of accessions made by the filius familias. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
"To defy the paterfamilias is a frightful thing, Cornelia. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Mr. Schmuck was an excellent "paterfamilias," and took great care of children. From Wordnik.com. [Debts of Honor] Reference
“Then as I am the paterfamilias, I will write to Sulla.”. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I am the paterfamilias, the absolute head of this household. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
While your father refuses custody of you, I am your paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Edward Kennedy, the paterfamilias, wanted a large, public ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference
I WAS ALL set to play the heavy-handed paterfamilias, berating them. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Duroy knew that the manager was a paterfamilias, but he was astonished. From Wordnik.com. [Bel Ami] Reference
I am the paterfamilias, and the only male Livius Drusus of my generation. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
"The firm is bankrupt," Edward says to the beloved, ailing paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [Pillars of the Community, Pillage of the Damned: James Wolcott] Reference
If the paterfamilias isn't a president of a board; then he's made a minister. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
In a properly ordered world, the paterfamilias would have been offered a choice. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Mr. Fox alternates between his devil-may-care persona and role as paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [Cara Parks: Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson and the Capers of Middle Age] Reference
But the cultural moment for blind allegiance to the paterfamilias might have passed. From Wordnik.com. [TRY A SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE] Reference
'And you think paterfamilias will forbid it on account of my ill-timed sparrow-hooting?'. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Tales] Reference
And even though Paul played the role of paterfamilias he was basically just the big brother. From Wordnik.com. ['Copy This! How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet Into a Company Called Kinko's'] Reference
The habit of running up bills with the milliners, and swindling paterfamilias on the house bills. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Daughters should look for someone who reminds them of their father or should I say, paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [Send The Gideons, PPLLLEASE!] Reference
This Thanksgiving, paterfamilias Julian Schnabel gathered the clan to his Montauk home for the feast. From Wordnik.com. [The Schnabel Family] Reference
Below, we'll compare the college averages of the paterfamilias to the accrued stats of the offspring. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Angevine: NBA Sons Populate College Hoops] Reference
Perhaps it is the thought of being such a substantial paterfamilias that makes him laugh so violently. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev] Reference
As the paterfamilias weeped, the spit that made digital, comic history, also made all former presidents cry. From Wordnik.com. [The Spit That Made History] Reference
You mayn't credit it, but I believe I heard the loving paterfamilias mutter something about "dying like a man". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
And I do not only refer to the family table, with the paterfamilias presiding over a dinner of curry and pilau. From Wordnik.com. [Food] Reference
Lord Boardotrade was there, making a semi-jocose speech, quite in the approved way for a cognate paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
For Rome has structured her laws to ensure that the Roman family is above the law of all save the paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He was more than the paterfamilias who never missed a wedding or graduation, who took them all to mass on Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Sobering Times] Reference
In the Republic the head of the family, paterfamilias, theoretically had absolute power over his wife and children. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The paterfamilias, William Randolph Hearst, knew what it was like to go nearly bankrupt thanks to personal extravagance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mansion Trap] Reference
So when paterfamilias Tripp Darling (Sutherland) invites him to take over his father's work, he's understandably hesitant. From Wordnik.com. [Tune In, Turn On] Reference
You have made your family and the servants of this household — above all you have made its paterfamilias — your victim. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
I know girls are supposed to obey their paterfamilias and marry whomsoever they are told to marry, but there is no man-alive or dead!. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I'm sure the late conservative paterfamilias Barry Goldwater's looking down with pride knowing the "message" has a most able steward. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Rush Limbaughland: Where the Elite Meet to Bleat] Reference
Several years ago, David Stern, the paterfamilias of the NBA, told me (with just a bit of a smirk): "" We are exploitative purists. ''. From Wordnik.com. [A League Of Their Own] Reference
He launched into speech, as it had been decided that he — her closest relative — was technically in the position of paterfamilias. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
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