The gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

THE RULING Unity Party -- its executives, strategists as well as "foot soldiers" -- must be commended for exhibiting maturity and "fatherliness" over the electoral process, even though it was a tough frontrunner.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

When you have the t bar covering the whole word it is a sign of protection, fatherliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graphology at Home – Lesson 4 – the “t” Bar « English Lesson Plans « Free Lesson Plans « Literacy News] Reference

"Oh. no, my son," the Good Prtest Boffly said with a tone of hurt fatherliness in his voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night Arrant]

There was a certain vulnerable kindliness about him, which made her wonder, startled, if she had ever realized what real fatherliness meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

Carl Sugarman had blown their relationship when his voice had betrayed fatherliness, but What's-His-Face — or someone else — could blow it just as easily should his voice betray indifference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lunatics]

I talked with the President till a party of young girls, who seemed to regard him with idolatry, and whom, in return, he treated with a sage mixture of gallantry and fatherliness, came to him with an invitation to join in some old-fashioned contra-dance long forgotten at the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

God's Holiness is His fatherliness; our holiness is childlikeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy] Reference

Pity and fatherliness were in his face, for his heart was full of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drum Taps] Reference

Was it that the alteration from the old kindly fatherliness of regard to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuttie's Father] Reference

What was there in this wine of great age which expelled reasonableness, fatherliness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

It seems to me that the most prominent feature of his character was his fatherliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorials of a southern planter,] Reference

I can't say for sure if it was her father she was playing, but it had the air of fatherliness about it.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Yes, it's most kind of you," said Mr. Sandys, putting his arm within his daughter's with a pleasant air of fatherliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watersprings] Reference

There was a warm note in his voice, a bit of truant fatherliness that added an element of grotesqueness to the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken to the Plow] Reference

There was one thing about Rockford not compatible with his air of fond fatherliness: his eyes were hard, gray slate as they looked into.    From Wordnik.com.  [—And Devious the Line of Duty] Reference

What the person of the infinite is, we know not; but we are gratefully and lovingly conscious of the fatherliness of this Supreme Being.    From Wordnik.com.  [No and Yes] Reference

"Well, I suppose I may draw my own conclusions from what I see?" went on the Big Doctor, in a voice that oozed fatherliness at every syllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mount Music] Reference

He often had some about him, and in speaking to them the friendliness of his manner was touched with fatherliness in a truly attractive fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

With breezy fatherliness which inspirited Una, he spoke of the possible presence of pneumococcus, of doing magic things with Romer's serum, of trusting in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Job An American Novel] Reference

Her ideas of her father had always been vague, and she had somehow associated him with Dr. Leslie, who had shown her all the fatherliness she had ever known.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches] Reference

Old Mr. Rushleigh treated her with a benignant fatherliness, and looked upon her with an evident fondness and pride that threw heavy weight in the scale of his son's chances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faith Gartney's Girlhood] Reference

His doubts, his questionings, his aspirations, are dealt with by Mr. Brisbane with a simple direct fatherliness with all the beneficent persuasiveness of a revivalist preacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference

Never before had he known any human being who radiated such vigor, such big and beneficent fatherliness, yet for all the air of kindliness something, too, that touched in him the sense of awe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Chord] Reference

As I stood quite close to them, several good looking enough youths, (but O what a tale of misery their appearance told,) nodded or just spoke to me, without doubt divining pity and fatherliness out of my face, for my heart was full enough of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

The fatherliness of the salute -- and he couldn't have made it anything else -- would have shamed Kitty's peculiar state of mind out of existence and probably sent back to its eternal sleep that which was strangely reawaking in his lonely heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drums of Jeopardy] Reference

As I stood quite close to them, several good looking enough American youths, (but O what a tale of misery their appearance told,) nodded or just spoke to me, without doubt divining pity and fatherliness out of my face, for my heart was full enough of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoranda During the War] Reference

It was like Duhamel, who, in fatherliness towards the villagers, went near out-rivalling M. le Cure, to throw open his house for the assembling of Charlot's friends, and La Boulaye was touched by this fresh sign of kindliness from a man whose good heart he had not lacked occasion to observe and appreciate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference

Do you mean that you will have to give up the -- fatherliness? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lo, Michael!] Reference

He was a very helpful man and it was his fatherliness that led to his death ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"I am glad," said my patron, with that air of fatherliness which he wore towards me from the first, "that you have telegraphed for my wife -- the house is different when she is in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dross] Reference

The postman eyed me with quizzical fatherliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Different Girls] Reference

Protection, fatherliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graphology at Home – Lesson 4 – the “t” Bar « English Lesson Plans « Free Lesson Plans « Literacy News] Reference