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  • The fellows say it is all the pater's doings that Howard has been sent to

    That Scholarship Boy Emma Leslie

  • He said that the one thing that had always threatened to floor the old boy was when either he or Jim got mad and threatened to give up school and go to work so as to take some of the load from the old pater's shoulders.

    The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls Laura Lee Hope

  • Along with these feathers will be mixed a little glutinous substance, as the chemistry master calls it, which I brought last term from the pater's works.

    The Hero of Garside School

  • I've been pushed on to the directorate of the pater's firm.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 Various

  • "Every one's head seems to be turned by the man's money -- even the pater's."

    Only an Irish Girl

  • Taylor and Curtis are like raging bulls over this new fellow, and they say it's all the pater's fault. '

    That Scholarship Boy Emma Leslie

  • He said that the one thing that had always threatened to floor the old boy was when either he or Jim got mad and threatened to give up school and go to work so as to take some of the load from the old pater's shoulders.

    The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge or, the Hermit of Moonlight Falls Laura Lee Hope

  • The result of these excesses is that my pater's imagination has been fired, and at time of going to press he wants me to imitate Comrade Bickersdyke.

    Psmith in the City 1928

  • Monk's going to Heidelberg to study German, and Danvers is going into his pater's business in the

    A Prefect's Uncle 1928

  • I'm all for spreading sweetness and light, and cheering up the jolly old pater's sorrowful existence, but I haven't a bean.

    Indiscretions of Archie 1928

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