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Fatherhood Abraham progenitor of a host of nations. [O.T.: Genesis 17:3–6]
first man and progenitor of humanity. [O.T.: Genesis 5:1–5] great god of Celts; father of Danu. [Celtic Myth.: Parrinder, 68; Jobes, 405] embittered by the death of his young son, neglects his daughter. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] deprives himself of his wealth in order to ensure good marriages for his two daughters. [Fr. Lit.: Balzac Pere Goriot in Magill I, 271] dead for sixteen years, he is allowed to return from Heaven for a day, and attempts to please the daughter he had never seen. [Hung. Drama: Molnar Liliom in Magill I, 511] fathered fifty children, among them Hector, Paris, Troilus, and Cassandra. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] pious dairyman concerned with marrying off his seven beautiful daughters. [Yid. Lit.: Tevye’s Daughters; Am. Musical: Fiddler on the Roof in On Stage, 468] the first man; the father of mankind. [Polynesian Legend: How the People Sang the Mountains Up, 85] “Father of the gods and men”; had many legitimate and illegitimate children. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Benét, 1115; Bulfinch, Ch. I] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The urge of his awakened instinct of fatherhood was strong upon him. I knew it was an uncurtained aperture in my friend's "machine-shop," and I had little doubt that he had resumed the studies interrupted by his duties as my instructor in mechanical consciousness and the fatherhood of Rhythm. But having known woman, and love, and fatherhood, and the belly-delights of eating, he had passed on beyond. |
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