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
But that’s exactly where it gets vexatious for the Kavanaughs père et fils.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2018
A shrewd showman, Turner père first leads visitors to a candlelit anteroom, to enhance the drama and visual effect when the doors open upon shimmering, pellucid seascapes that invariably draw gasps of wonder.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014
His adaptation of the historical novel by Alexandre Dumas père is similarly confrontational, treating the story of Marguerite de Valois, a.k.a.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2014
"Ah, mon père, do not be angry with me," pleaded the young Queen, half laughing and half penitent.
From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta
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 Yule, Henry
Conservez ce qu'ont vu vos pères, 'These are the clamps that knit one generation to another.
From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
They are, for all the world, like our révérends pères!
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
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 Barker, Edward Harrison
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 Besant, Walter, Sir
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