père
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Nor did I give a fig, or an olive, whether or not the Di Grassos found their long-lost relatives or, in the case of père and grand-père, their equally elusive consciences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
George Stevens père also went to war, heading up the motion picture unit of the U.S.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
Le Pen père was tainted by, among other things, his support for the Vichy regime and the record of the French military in its colonial wars.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2022
You could make it four if you count Bush père in 1992.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2016
Here Basine père planned Herculean enterprise and triumphed with magnificent gestures, became a leader of finance, of armies; became a lover of queens and odalisques.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
They are, for all the world, like our révérends pères!
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
The amiable Ivorine says she will go with Bauduin: "'Sé mes pères est mors, n'en donne. j. paresis!'"
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
These managers have begun by calling upon clergymen, Sunday-school teachers, employers of labour, leaders of trades unions, and, one supposes, pères de famille generally, to use their influence in making children attend these schools.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant
There were twenty-two of us in all, pères et frères, and two or three weeks afterwards seventeen were down with fever.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
Conservez ce qu'ont vu vos pères, 'These are the clamps that knit one generation to another.
From On The Art of Reading by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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