Perhaps he had been acting only out of fatherliness, she tried to convince herself afterward. |
Surely that's what draws Hugh and Jacques to her, the former with his quaint notions of gallantry, the second with his debauched fatherliness. |
Eilberg-Schwartz differentiates between images of male deities and images of father deities, contending that the maleness of God may have different implications than the fatherliness of God. |
It held the friendly fatherliness, the smooth steel of command. |
But his fatherliness holds that Pabo the archpriest was burnt. |
These were not her people, and she was far from home, and no amount of fatherliness or motherliness could make it so. |