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Example sentences for "adopted father"

  • My cousin Edward sympathised with me, wondered what could be Mr. Thornton's motives for such strange severity, and what sort of a heart he had thus rudely to break the tender and filial tie which bound me to my adopted father.

  • My adopted father, my kind guardian, my secure protector, my faithful friend, my devoted lover!

  • The salvages went to goe unto the familly that was ennemy unto my adopted father to make them offer of my presents, & in my name to invite them unto the feast of unity.

  • I know from my adopted father, that her virtues and courage were the admiration of all who knew her.

  • Under the large pear-tree, close to the wall of the barn, sat upon the stone bench my adopted father, Dagobert, that brave and honest soldier whom you love so much.

  • But property is concerned which belong to poor orphans, brought from a distant exile by my adopted father, and I will not see them wronged.

  • It seems that my adopted father had at length found out where she was, found out, too, that she had been the victim of a villain.

  • I went to Cornwall prepared to do my adopted father's bidding.

  • It seemed natural to them, I suppose, that I, in order to become my adopted father's heir, should also adopt his name.

  • After the death of my adopted father, Mr. Warburton urged a speedy marriage, and we fixed a day for the ceremony.

  • During the last year of my adopted father's life, it was his dearest wish that I should marry his friend, Archibald Warburton, and we became affianced.

  • About sixty leagues from here, in the heart of the Indian country, there is a placer of gold of incalculable richness; it was discovered by my adopted father.

  • Instead of calling Marcos Arellanos his father, had Tiburcio said his adopted father, his explanation might have elicited a different response from the Canadian.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adopted child; adopted daughter; adopted father; adopted mother; broadly speaking; cannot remember; come thither; different things; extreme cases; highly developed; inch from the edge; making water; members directly; must look; poor girl; really don; saving only; several species; should desire; then press; these great; though differing; weather roads; what strange; will judge the world