The foster-father, who was an American resident in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

"He had slain Thord Freedmanson, my foster-father.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

To whom her foster-father, 'Why dost thou not speak?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

Mother, but also to Joseph, who was to be his foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

He did not claim to be its real father -- only its foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Furrows] Reference

"My King and foster-father asks who taught you the name Haschanascha?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Her foster-father was, doubtless, occupied with his bees; but his wife?.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850] Reference

Amphitryon, the kind friend and foster-father of Heracles, lost his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

Joe called on his former foster-father, but did not find him at the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference

The account was given to me by Mrs. Rizal's foster-father as we crossed the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Sweden, had been one of Frothi's men and had later been Ingjald's foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries] Reference

"A demon of the air shalt thou be until time shall cease!" said her foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Meriadoc recognizes his foster-father and springs clear over the table to greet him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries] Reference

Knust (from Leghorn), the child leaves his foster-father and goes in search of his parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

The minister of a Raja of Karauli was his Dauwa or foster-father, the husband of his nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

For one who became foster-father to a child was usually of lower rank than the real father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

St. Joseph, whom we also call His father, was only His foster-father or guardian upon earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)] Reference

"See thou to it, foster-father," said Hauskuld; "that shall be my choice which thou choosest.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

Joe's foster-father made a serious charge against him, and our hero was on the verge of arrest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank] Reference

This was his offering of vengeance to the shade of his foster-father; and then he made his sons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

Each of them went to the house of his father and mother, of his foster-mother and foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference

His father and mother are dead, and he ran away from his foster-father -- a good thing, too, I guess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference

There was a certain orphaness brought up by a certain epitropus, or foster-father, an honest good man.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

A Kulapati is an ascetic that owns ten thousand ascetics for his disciples, Kanwa, the foster-father of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

Gowal was the foster-father of Krishna, and is now said to signify a man who has a lakh (100,000) of cows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

The fulfilment of his pious desire, is the only offering I can make to the memory of my dear foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

Harald was well content, for the King of England had been forced to become the foster-father of his little son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is becoming "more and more the foster-father of terrorism in Southern Africa".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Deacon Blackford had taken care of Joe since the boy was about five years old, and was, in a sense, his foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank] Reference

The lad's former foster-father was not very cordial in his greeting, and, in fact, seemed rather embarrassed than otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference

Still, he was willing to pay all proper deference to an old friend, and to the foster-father of the girl who was to be his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

Magindano man, a sort of foster-father of Si Tundo's, when he saw me for the first time, clasped my arm, and repeatedly exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

Nor is it known who was his foster-father, or atalik; for according to the custom prevalent in western, and to some extent in eastern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference

Siva in Thanach, a town of the Levites near Megiddo, and that He visited there the former carpenter's shop of his foster-father Joseph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

Sakuntala requests the king to wait till her foster-father Kanwa, who had gone out on a pilgrimage, would come back and give his consent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference