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He would teach Charles, the eldest of the three, to master chess, a nonsensical game his prating pater really could not stand.
A limited number of individuals may claim ownership of the estates of both their pater and genitor.
People do not claim to own more than one small-scale name, unless their pater is distinct from their genitor.
Doubtless mater and pater sent this horny-handed son of toil to the local comp followed by the polytechnic.
His narrator hotfoots it to Shanghai, where he was brought up, to solve the mystery of his missing mater and pater.
Unfortunately, however, by the time pater returns from his day at the type face, father and son are more often than not no longer co-ordinated in the pants department.
He was part of our family celebrations for decades, an adopted pater familias.
Upon reaching the border of the offending state, the pater patratus first announced his mission and addressed a prayer to Jupiter in which he affirmed the justness of his errand.
When we ask the question who is the father of a child, there is a reply which is very well-known even if it is not very satisfying: pater semper incertus.
He clearly sees himself not just as political leader, but as the conservative pater familias of the whole nation and the guardian of morality.
The authority of the pater familias was unlimited, be it in civil rights as well as in criminal law.
The unification of Brittany was carried out by Nominoe, king between 845 and 851 and considered as the Breton pater patriae.
As a result, the lover has no legal control over the children, who may be taken away from him by the kin of the pater when they choose.
Yet even though the relationship between him and his father constitutes the novel's central conflict, Trevor is not exclusively haunted by a pater familias.
The Roman army hailed Alexander as emperor on March 13, 222, immediately instilling him with the titles of Augustus, pater patriae, and pontifex maximus.
Clearly, Pater disciplined himself to erase any trace of ill-temper or unpleasantness from his speech and writing.
An essay on Leonardo was possibly intended as a refutation of Ruskin, whose emphasis on the moral value of art Pater directly opposed.
Or recognizing the many qualities of his own nature in Pater, was Hopkins stirred to act against the lure of those qualities?
We might think of a notion of ascesis not only as articulated by Walter Pater but also as expressed in the work of scholars like Leo Bersani.
As often in his writing, Pater introduces a point of major significance so quietly and unassertively that it slips past the reader's guard.
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As lavish a minstrel as the pewee pater familias is under most circumstances, that morning he was too busy to tune his wind harp.
I tipped the pater a pointer on that long ago, and got well cursed for my pains.
As they understood it, the pater familis had absolute power over his children and other agnatic descendants.
You see, he is himself pater familias, with no Bohemian trait or raffish turn.
Theophilus Wodenoth, pater, natus Lankenkorn neer Lanceston in com.
Mr. pater let me know that he was writing on it for the Guardian.
He made a cheerful thing, an echo of the platform before the booth of a country fair, even of a visit to the tomb of the pater patriae.
You have already interrupted one pater, two aves, and a credo, which I, miserable sinner that I am, should, according to my vow, have said before moonrise.
That's a sort of gum-poison, pater, which attacks the nerve centres.
She did not precisely burn with that hard, gemlike flame which Mr. Pater recommended.
Every passer-by went into the yard, knelt by the side of the dead, said a Pater noster, and sprinkled a few drops of holy water on the bier.
I could almost hear Davies saying that, as if Pater had never so much as thought of it.
I say, Luke leant forward confidentially across the rickety green tin table, you know how snarky Pater was about him?
Also she said that when she wolde wyl him to do any thinge for her, she wolde say her Pater noster in laten.
The late Mr. Walter Pater was once invited to admire a hideous wedding-present, compact of ormolu and malachite.
If it be really so, Oh, let me entreat that you will not neglect to say at once Pater, peccavi!
Sing about the cattle the Benedicite and some litanies and the Pater Noster.
Don't you remember the chapter in Marius where Pater talks of the gentle exercise of walking as the best incentive to conversation?
Don't let the mater and Pater get the wind up about my personal safety.
He knew Pater and Oscar Wilde, and he knows Mallarme and all those fellows.
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