"Father" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... personally," he said, with a smile for which she felt grateful. "As I say, it's natural for them to think that way, perhaps. Your father, however, is not a lawyer; and, when I went into his room at your request, he took pains to offend me, insult me, several times." That brought a faint flush to her face. "So, that leaves only you to give me facts which ...
— No Clue - A Mystery Story • James Hay
... ELIZABETH. Come, Father, such talk is hardly suited to little girls, who should know better than to ask so many ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
... it isn't true, and of course you can't believe it," went on Frank. "I am sure that a day or two will change things that look so black for me now. All that I am worrying about is that this affair may get to father and mother. It would simply worry them both to death, and it mustn't be. I hope you wouldn't be so cruel, so wicked, as ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... pair of silver-backed brushes and a hand-glass that had belonged to an aunt, a small leather case in which she kept some modest trinkets—a pearl brooch, a bracelet or two, and a locket that had been her mother's—and, standing on either side of the glass, two photographs of her father ...
— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Sir, by your looks" (or as the case happened) my father would say—"that you do not heartily subscribe to this opinion of mine—which, to those," he would add, "who have not carefully sifted it to the bottom,—I own has an air more of fancy than of solid reasoning in it; and ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
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