fatherliness

• “THE RULING Unity Party -- its executives, strategists as well as "foot soldiers" -- must be commended for exhibiting maturity and "fatherliness" over the electoral process, even though it was a tough frontrunner.”

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• “When you have the t bar covering the whole word it is a sign of protection, fatherliness.”

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• “There was a certain vulnerable kindliness about him, which made her wonder, startled, if she had ever realized what real fatherliness meant.”

  The Plumed Serpent

• “Carl Sugarman had blown their relationship when his voice had betrayed fatherliness, but What's-His-Face — or someone else — could blow it just as easily should his voice betray indifference.”

  Lunatics

• “Oh. no, my son," the Good Prtest Boffly said with a tone of hurt fatherliness in his voice.”

  Night Arrant

• “I talked with the President till a party of young girls, who seemed to regard him with idolatry, and whom, in return, he treated with a sage mixture of gallantry and fatherliness, came to him with an invitation to join in some old-fashioned contra-dance long forgotten at the East.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864

• “There was one thing about Rockford not compatible with his air of fond fatherliness: his eyes were hard, gray slate as they looked into”

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• “There was an insufferable suggestion of ripe old age and fatherliness in his attitude which she found irritating in the extreme.”

  The Coming of Bill

• “With breezy fatherliness which inspirited Una, he spoke of the possible presence of pneumococcus, of doing magic things with Romer's serum, of trusting in”

  The Job An American Novel

• “Masked as ever in his suave exterior and his manner of mingled obsequiousness and fatherliness, he came instantly.”

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