Padre

Now the Padre is always dwelling offensively on the matter of Sunday observance, because he disapproves of my making pies on that day instead of teaching Sunday school, and so I contended that the man in the moon ought to be let down again, for it was just possible he lived in the North-West and couldn't help himself.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

Afraid and not knowing where to turn, she called Padre Carlos.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

But there would be some other ... fringe benefits, as those who have gone on Spring Break in Padre are well aware.

Social SecurityAnalysis, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The huge issue of illegal immigration from Mexico goes beyond the usual epithets in Padre Nuestro, the tale of an illegitimate son crossing a border from one squalid impoverished city to another to find the father whom he's never met.

GreenCine Daily: Park City Dispatch. 11. 2007

Prime months are late spring through fall, but the best time to fish South Padre is when you can.

TEXAS GULF : Padre Knows Best 1999

This must be the better conclusion, because the Padre is sarcastic about it, and says I only know enough Scripture to be troublesome.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

The Padre is telling me that they eat thirty times as much food, proportionately, as a man, and can do an amount of work far beyond his relative power.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

The Padre is so intensely Western that my criticisms nettle him, and he quotes the proverb anent children, fools, and half-done work.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

I notice that the Padre is getting conceited in the extreme about his prowess as a hunter.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

The Padre would probably analyse my sensations critically and class them as "ebullitions of animal well-being arising from the equanimity of good digestion and well oxygenated blood"; but the Padre is in Winnipeg and there is no one else to disconcert me.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910