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
But that’s exactly where it gets vexatious for the Kavanaughs père et fils.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2018
The first is soup à la Dauphine, from Alexandre Dumas père, which calls for wilting lettuce, spinach, leek, onions, sorrel, purslane and edible flowers in butter, adding vegetable stock and serving over toast.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2016
He then mounted the ladder, and bade the père follow him.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
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
They are, for all the world, like our révérends pères!
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
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
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
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
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