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It is the so-called decent people, the noble paterfamiliases, the irreproachable husbands, the loving brothers.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

These dreams of bliss, put into facile verse yet adorned with a certain poetic gravity, caused some anxiety among the paterfamiliases.

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando