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The little wight Fill’d me, unfatherly, with fright!

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

"A boy," said Guthrie Carey, still with that unfatherly air of discontent.

From Sisters by Cambridge, Ada

Struck, not by the unfatherly, but by the ungentlemanly nature of his response, Stanwood promptly gathered himself together, to meet the situation.

From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Moore, Emma G.

The Duchess now understood the unfatherly disregard Old Jimmie had shown for the ordinary welfare of Maggie.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy

Black Mike's treatment of him from his babyhood had been too consistently unfatherly for that.

From Terry's Trials and Triumphs by Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)