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  • He mentioned his Australia celebrity rock-singing dad not by name: Jimmy Barnes and even pointed out he's only one of his sire's illegitimate off-spring and, as a result, was raised by his mother's show-tune-loving mom.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: David Campbell From Down Under Goes Way Up and Over David Finkle 2010

  • And when the first light came, and the prince's force began to muster in the wards, and the bustle and clamour, however purposeful and moderate, would certainly bring out all the household, who was to tell the good canon that his daughter had taken flight in the darkness from the cloister, from marriage, and from her sire's very imperfect love and care for her?

    His Disposition 2010

  • To be excluded in such a peremptory fashion, a flick of my sire's hand to strike me from the travel list, was another insensitive act of judgment.

    Artichoke Christian Bell 2010

  • He mentioned his Australia celebrity rock-singing dad not by name: Jimmy Barnes and even pointed out he's only one of his sire's illegitimate off-spring and, as a result, was raised by his mother's show-tune-loving mom.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: David Campbell From Down Under Goes Way Up and Over David Finkle 2010

  • He mentioned his Australia celebrity rock-singing dad not by name: Jimmy Barnes and even pointed out he's only one of his sire's illegitimate off-spring and, as a result, was raised by his mother's show-tune-loving mom.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: David Campbell From Down Under Goes Way Up and Over David Finkle 2010

  • That which saves the lives of others, proves thy destruction, even thy sire's nobility; to thee thy father's valiancy has proved no boon.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • That which saves the lives of others, proves thy destruction, even thy sire's nobility; to thee thy father's valiancy has proved no boon.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Electra, - the boy Orestes, as he was like to be slain by Aegisthus, his sire's old foster-father secretly removed to the land of Phocis and gave to Strophius to bring up, but the maid Electra abode in her father's house, and soon as she had budded into maidenhood, came all the princes of

    Electra 2008

  • Electra, - the boy Orestes, as he was like to be slain by Aegisthus, his sire's old foster-father secretly removed to the land of Phocis and gave to Strophius to bring up, but the maid Electra abode in her father's house, and soon as she had budded into maidenhood, came all the princes of

    Electra 2008

  • From what you have said, I would wager that young Egen has enlisted some Hamorian assistance in the matter of his sire's illness.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

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