It would be very presumptuous of me if it did, my dear father," replied Lord Sherbrooke, "and would argue that precept and example had done nothing for me.
You have probably heard that, in consequence of some troublesome news from the Highlands, warrants were sent out for apprehending several gentlemen in these parts, and, among others, my dear father.
Mr. Waverley, I have no better advice than that of my own feelings; my dear father is gone from this place, and when he can return to my assistance and protection, God alone knows.
My dear father, in the midst of felicity almost more than mortal, the thought has come that this letter is my first step towards leaving the paternal roof under which I have been so happy all my life, thanks to you.
Dear father," said Gerard, "they are for the use of the Church, and surely that sanctifies the pains and labour spent on them?
Dear father, dear mother, what can we do to pleasure the absent, but be kind to his poor lass; and her own trouble afore her?
Dear father, prithee add thyself to that venerable company ere the soup cools.
The first twig, dear father, that brushes against your hat when you turn your face to come homewards,' said she.
Dear father, I have this year learnt what the frogs croak.
You have probably heard, that in consequence of some troublesome news from the Highlands, warrants were sent out for apprehending several gentlemen in these parts, and, among others, my dear father.
O my dear father," said she, "if by your art you have raised this dreadful storm, have pity on their sad distress.
Dear father," he said to Dagobert, "my mother has just received this letter, and she requests you to read it.
And so, dear father, let us think of our plan of action.
If you mean that, from the bottom of my soul, I desired that you should make an exemplary and Christian end, you are perfectly right, my dear father.
Yet his must be a mind of no common order, or he would not dare to teach my dear father to dance a hornpipe on the cabin table.
Dear father is, and always was, the most methodical of men!
Dear father, why leave your bed When happy daylight is dead?
I reveal his name fearlessly to you, my dear father, for you are both too just and too generous to visit upon his head the disastrous consequences of a victory that he deplores.
I could have wished to enter your family, my dear father, under more favourable auspices.
Dear father, it will seem a thousand years Until I see you home again and well.
My mother was not married--they have found-- To my dear father.
With the price I got for it, I had three Masses said For my dear father's sake.
I know, dear Father in Heaven, that Thou dost not forget anything, but I say it to make me feel better.
The day after I had deliberately made up my mind to enjoy myself, cost what it might, my dear father called me to him, kissed me, pulled my ears a little, and gave me some money.
No, dear father," I said, "Christ will do that for me.
But I do not see any good it has done me to lose my dear father, and as to mother she was good enough before.
I don't make reading plays my business, dear father.
I always told you, my dear father, that your old military habits would be fatal to you," answered Rodin with a frightful smile.
The object, my dear father, fills me with joy and happiness.
And, between ourselves, my dear father, what was I to do?
Ah, Charley, you're a lucky fellow to be able to extort such long letters from our dear father.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dear father" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
