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  • "But," he cried, "one of the Patriarchs!"†   (source)
  • Rife contributed $500 to the Highlands Church of the Baptism by Fire, Reverend Wayne Bedford, head minister; $2,500 to the Pentecostal Youth League of Bayside, Reverend Wayne Bedford, president; $150,000 to the Pentecostal Church of the New Trinity, Reverend Wayne Bedford, founder and patriarch; $2.†   (source)
  • Tom Lasater is ninety years old now, and his memory is failing, but he still has the aura of a strong patriarch.†   (source)
  • He looked sixty-five but might be eighty; he might be the senior partner of a law firm or the semi-retired patriarch of a construction company, but was more likely a rancher or a realtor.†   (source)
  • After they had eaten, Baba Ayub would sip his tea, watching his family, picturing a day when all of his children married and gave him children of their own, when he would be proud patriarch to an even greater brood.†   (source)
  • In 1876, when Baby Kochamma's father was seven years old, his father had taken him to see the Patriarch, who was visiting the Syrian Christians of Kerala.†   (source)
  • For his service to the Church, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem made him a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, and the French Government conferred upon him the rank of Commander in the Legion of Honor.†   (source)
  • They slept in different quarters in Cange—the patriarch of the place was, after all, a priest.†   (source)
  • Vanger had been one of the really big fish in his day, with a reputation for being an honourable, old-fashioned patriarch who would not bend in a strong wind.†   (source)
  • Papa had been the patriarch.†   (source)
  • Relatives took turns running out into the street, searching for the approach of the family patriarch.†   (source)
  • I wrote speeches mainly for corporate chairmen, ruddy white-haired guys with big ravaged noses, patriarchs of this or that industry.†   (source)
  • Why is it that in many cultures, old men are respected as patriarchs, while old women are taken outside the village to die of thirst or to be eaten by wild animals?†   (source)
  • I looked up, and the mirror on the ceiling returned my image: an old, shriveled body, the sad face of a biblical patriarch furrowed with bitter wrinkles, and what was left of a mane of white hair.†   (source)
  • I could see that the patriarch's words rang true for these ladies.†   (source)
  • After visiting Senor Alvarado, Cesar and Padre Esteban called upon other industrial barons and patriarchs of Monterrey.†   (source)
  • During the times of the patriarchs, times of war, the birth of our nation, I get it.†   (source)
  • The fact that the patriarch owned a sedan chair was taken as the ultimate measure of just how greatly the family had prospered.†   (source)
  • When Bram proclaimed that he would meet whatever demands Brigit's father cared to set, the shrewd patriarch saw his chance.†   (source)
  • The Kennedy family takes all its directives from their patriarch.†   (source)
  • So here was 'Bampa; as we called him, determined to be a good father and patriarch, spreading a protective wing over his more popular brother Aelian, and living in his empire—acres of choice land in the heart of Kegalle.†   (source)
  • For who was I to him, really, or to his mother, for that matter, but a too-late-in-coming, too-late-in-life notion of a grandfather, a sorry, open-handed figure of a patriarch, come back hungry and hopeful to people he never knew?†   (source)
  • If it seems odd to call a patriarch "Junior," there was a logical explanation.†   (source)
  • I blurted out all my plans too, after college and after I'd become a pediatrician, to get married and have children and then grandchildren, with Dad as the patriarch at all the reunions.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed the role of patriarch of his large extended family, which numbered more than sixty during his lifetime, and he even bragged at one point that he was the oldest Robertson of his line left.†   (source)
  • It's the ultimate irony, the patriarch's final vengeance — Hong Kong will be controlled by the very men who corrupted Nationalist China.†   (source)
  • He had personally known several wolves who were at least sixteen years old, while one wolf patriarch who lived near the Kazan River, and who had been well known to Ootek's father, must have been over twenty years old before he disappeared.†   (source)
  • The three pretty girls giggled and were constantly smothered by the navy-blue eye of the chieftain, backed by a hiss from the patriarch.†   (source)
  • He basks in the cheers and the excitement, like a patriarch surrounded by his children.†   (source)
  • No less a person than Ezra Bennington himself, the grand patriarch of Bluffton, had requested a bus to meet the boat from Yamacraw.†   (source)
  • That Cossack tormenting the poor patriarch-and there are thousands of incidents like it-of course it's an ignominy-but there's no point in philosophizing, you just hit out.†   (source)
  • Even the Samos patriarch, Evangeline's cruel father, bows his head.†   (source)
  • The Patriarch wiped his ring on his sleeve, and blessed the little boy.†   (source)
  • The Patriarch of Antioch appeared briefly in the sky—and waved his withered hand.†   (source)
  • The silver-haired patriarch barks out in response.†   (source)
  • "Evangeline, of House Samos," yells the patriarch of the silver-haired family.†   (source)
  • I say, facing the patriarch who had called for service.†   (source)
  • She belongs to Ptolemus and the patriarch, but others cheer too, other families.†   (source)
  • Adam saw a big man, bearded like a patriarch, his graying hair stirring in the air like thistledown.†   (source)
  • Her brother, eight years Katherine's senior and only fifteen when their father died, had begun his journey toward becoming the Solomon patriarch much sooner than anyone had ever dreamed.†   (source)
  • If the patriarch had had anything to do with the disappearance of his brother's granddaughter, his actions over the past thirty-six years would fall into the psychopathic arena.†   (source)
  • Some of the young ones turned into venerable patriarchs with so much haste that no one could explain how they had time to grow old.†   (source)
  • EB: He was a patriarch, was he not?†   (source)
  • The first thing I saw, lying in a fold of the tarpaulin above the bow bench, was a large cockroach, perhaps the patriarch of the clan.†   (source)
  • For a moment the mask of the good-natured patriarch slipped, and Blomkvist could detect the ruthless captain of industry from his days of power confronted by a setback.†   (source)
  • What was clear was that the old patriarch had tackled the job with the systematic approach of an amateur archaeologist—the material was going to fill twenty feet of shelving.†   (source)
  • They found themselves right in front of a group of people whom the Patriarch was addressing in the westernmost verandah of the Kalleny house, in Cochin.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist wondered whether the patriarch's suspicions about his family had warped his judgement in the matter of Harriet's disappearance, but now he was starting to realise that Vanger had made an amazingly sober assessment.†   (source)
  • The future Reverend, skidding on his heels, rigid with fear, applied his terrified lips to the ring on the Patriarch's middle finger, leaving it wet with spit.†   (source)
  • She had defiled generations of breeding (The Little Blessed One, blessed personally by the Patriarch of Antioch, an Imperial Entomologist, a Rhodes Scholar from Oxford) and brought the family to its knees.†   (source)
  • Of course, the second I move next to the door, the wretched black-eyed patriarch slaps the button on his table.†   (source)
  • Reverend Ipe was well known in the Christian community as the man who had been blessed personally by the Patriarch of Antioch, the sovereign head of the Syrian Christian Church—an episode that had become a part of Ayemenem's folklore.†   (source)
  • Before anyone can nudge me in the right direction, I set off to the right box, barely hearing the Samos patriarch speak.†   (source)
  • At first Jose Arcadio Buendia had been a kind of youthful patriarch who would give instructions for planting and advice for the raising of children and animals, and who collaborated with everyone, even in the physical work, for the welfare of the community.†   (source)
  • And more even than the elegant facades, the interiors and furnishings of such houses—the marble floors, chinaware, leather-bound books, maps, and huge ebony-framed portraits of the merchants themselves or of their Golden Age patriarchs—bespoke generations of accumulated wealth and unrivaled position.†   (source)
  • It was as if the youngest, the least experienced, had been appointed to display what the others, held back by awe or fear, or some old-country notion of respect for the patriarch, could not.†   (source)
  • The orator walked ominously out of the light of the torches to the two petrified men kneeling in front; 'Your devotion to money transcends your devotion to our cause,' he intoned like a sorrowful but angry patriarch.†   (source)
  • The family also still wanted Ellaha to marry her cousin, partly because he was the son of her father's oldest brother, the family patriarch.†   (source)
  • She was the lone woman who could read, albeit slowly: "Message from His Holiness, Patriarch of the Church, Abuna Basilios," she said, and heads at once bowed, and hands made the sign of the cross, as if His Holiness were on the steps with them.†   (source)
  • The patriarch was clearly taken aback.†   (source)
  • The round of parties began as scheduled the following day and our social odyssey was initiated, of course, at the home of the patriarch and matriarch of the clan.†   (source)
  • What did interest him in Dudorov's story was his account of a cellmate of his, Bonifatii Orletsov, a follower of Tikhon, the Patriarch of Moscow.†   (source)
  • The patriarch gave some kind of signal.†   (source)
  • In the first miracle you have a popular leader, the patriarch Moses, dividing the waters by a magic gesture, allowing a whole nation-countless numbers, hundreds of thousands of people— to go through, and when the last man is across the sea closes up again and submerges and drowns the pursuing Egyptians.†   (source)
  • He passed the bottle to the patriarch in his corner, and the old man smiled so sweetly that for the first time I could see he lacked front teeth.†   (source)
  • If all this rhetoric about leaders and peoples had the power to reverse history, it would set us back thousands of years to the Biblical times of shepherd tribes and patriarchs.†   (source)
  • But the operating chieftain, with deference of course to the patriarch, was a fine-looking man of about thirty-five, broad-shouldered and lithe, with the cream-and-berries complexion of a girl and crisp black curling hair.†   (source)
  • They were nice-looking people, a dozen of them, not counting children, three of the girls pretty and given to giggling, two of the wives buxom and a third even buxomer with child, a patriarch, two brothers-in-law, and a couple of young men who were working toward being brothers-in-law.†   (source)
  • They had patriarchs and matriarchs but they had no prince before him.†   (source)
  • Gilgamesh, on landing, had to listen to the patriarch's long recitation of the story of the deluge.†   (source)
  • Plus the sun's heat and the patriarch wake, spitting and lacy.†   (source)
  • That morning Aunt Pitty had reached the regretful decision that she had better kill the patriarch before he died of old age and pining for his harem which had long since been eaten.†   (source)
  • There were thousands that trusted in him right next to God Almighty, and they told stories about him and all the things that belonged to him that were like the stories of patriarchs and such.†   (source)
  • A patriarch with a long white beard, black skull cap and toothless gums presided over the vats with a big forked wooden stick.†   (source)
  • He had learned from his father, a Tennessee patriarch who ran a farm, preached on Sundays, and put down rebellion in his family with a horse-whip and pious prayers, the advantages of being God!†   (source)
  • Druses, patriarchs, icons, bed-bugs, Romanesque remains, curious dishes of goat and sheeps' eyes, French and Turkish officials—all the catalogue of Near Eastern travel was provided for our amusement.†   (source)
  • Look at his bars," she said respectfully, and they both glanced at the portly patriarch, whose breast was indeed barred with black stripes, like the gold rings on an admiral's sleeve.†   (source)
  • They too, the patriarchs, the professors, had endless difficulties, terrible drawbacks to contend with.†   (source)
  • Shame and fear sped her homeward and, in her mind, Archie with his patriarch's beard assumed the proportions of an avenging angel straight from the pages of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • "128 The story is told of a Confucian scholar who besought the twenty-eighth Buddhist patriarch, Bodhidharma, "to pacify his soul."†   (source)
  • Hence the enormous importance to a patriarch who has to conquer, who has to rule, of feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race indeed, are by nature inferior to himself.†   (source)
  • However, when the hero in question is a great patriarch, wizard, prophet, or incarnation, the wonders are permitted to develop beyond all bounds.†   (source)
  • The professors, or patriarchs, as it might be more accurate to call them, might be angry for that reason partly, but partly for one that lies a little less obviously on the surface.†   (source)
  • An ancient earth being, Kagyapa, "The Turtle Man," had married thirteen of the daughters of a still more ancient demiurgic patriarch, Daksa, "The Lord of Virtue."†   (source)
  • And as I watched her lengthening out for the test, I saw, but hoped that she did not see, the bishops and the deans, the doctors and the professors, the patriarchs and the pedagogues all at her shouting warning and advice.†   (source)
  • Comparable are the protracted lives of the Hebrew patriarchs: Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, Seth nine hundred and twelve, Enos nine hundred and five, etc., etc. 3 "Will you bring this horn to me?" asked Oisin of the herdsman.†   (source)
  • …overcome with wonder, his hair standing on end, Arjuna bowed his head to the Lord, joined his palms in salutation, and addressed Him: In Thy body, 0 Lord, I behold all the gods and all the diverse hosts of beings—the Lord Brahma, seated on the lotus, all the patriarchs * The principal text of modern Hindu devotional religiosity: an ethical dialogue of eighteen chapters, appearing in Book VI of the Mahabharata, which is the Indian counterpart of the Iliad. and the celestial serpents.†   (source)
  • And by all the other patriarchs, I know.†   (source)
  • Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his twelve sons to be patriarchs.†   (source)
  • I have walked in the courts of heaven, and held speech with the patriarchs.†   (source)
  • Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his twelve sons to be patriarchs.†   (source)
  • Well, what are the names of the patriarchs?†   (source)
  • Now they come—the patriarchs first; next the fathers of the tribes.†   (source)
  • A reverent old patriarch man as you be—seventy if a day—to go hornpiping like that by yourself!†   (source)
  • [+] Colonel Boon, the patriarch of Kentucky.†   (source)
  • Patriarch was the name which many people delighted to give him.†   (source)
  • One woman and four men—all bent, and wrinkled, and mind-extinguished patriarchs.†   (source)
  • "I never knew Miss Hepzibah so forgetful before," said the patriarch to himself.†   (source)
  • Uncle Tom was a sort of patriarch in religious matters, in the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • 'Really, really?' returned the Patriarch.†   (source)
  • Uncas took the scout by the hand, and led him to the feet of the patriarch.†   (source)
  • The promise of a blessing to all the earth through the patriarch reached far into the future.†   (source)
  • And behold, it was the five patriarchs that had been released from the dungeons the evening before!†   (source)
  • Everybody else within the bills of mortality was hot; but the Patriarch was perfectly cool.†   (source)
  • "Abaddon seize him!" yelled the patriarch, shrilly.†   (source)
  • 'Not so, not so,' said the Patriarch, 'not so.'†   (source)
  • No, by the patriarchs, Esther, I would rather lay us both with your mother to sleep as she sleeps!†   (source)
  • 'Dear, dear, dear!' exclaimed the Patriarch in sweet regret.†   (source)
  • The Patriarch, meanwhile, came inanely beaming towards the counting-house in the wake of Pancks.†   (source)
  • But he's a perfect Patriarch; and it would do a man good to serve him on such terms—on any terms.'†   (source)
  • 'Dear, dear, dear!' said the Patriarch, 'how very unfortunate!†   (source)
  • 'None,' returned the Patriarch, shaking his big head with his utmost benevolence.†   (source)
  • 'Ah, indeed?' said the Patriarch, sweetly.†   (source)
  • The Patriarch insisted on his staying to dinner, and Flora signalled 'Yes!'†   (source)
  • 'Ah, to be sure!' returned the Patriarch.†   (source)
  • Everybody was thirsty, and the Patriarch was drinking.†   (source)
  • The more restless Mr Pancks grew in his mind, the more impatient he became of the Patriarch.†   (source)
  • Here is your benevolent Patriarch of a Casby, and there is his golden rule.†   (source)
  • Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs.†   (source)
  • The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal.†   (source)
  • When I became interested in the subject towards the end of the eighteen-seventies, Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J. Ellis was still a living patriarch, with an impressive head always covered by a velvet skull cap, for which he would apologize to public meetings in a very courtly manner.†   (source)
  • Often, too, we would hurry for shelter, tumbling in among all its stony saints and patriarchs, into the porch of Saint-Andre-des-Champs, How typically French that church was!†   (source)
  • There was little about them resembling the stern, quiet, somber austerity of the more matured men, and nothing at all of the strange, aloof, serene impassiveness of the gray-bearded old patriarchs.†   (source)
  • Mr. Braithwaite was large, somewhat of the stern patriarch in appearance, having a rather thin white beard.†   (source)
  • 'An emaciated patriarch in a suit of white drill, a solah topi with a green-lined rim on a head trembling with age, joined us after crossing the street in a trotting shuffle, and stood propped with both hands on the handle of an umbrella.†   (source)
  • It was a matter of reaching back to certain religious orders of knights in the Middle Ages, to the Knights Templar in particular—you know, the ones who swore vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience before the patriarch of Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • The mood he evinced, Claggart—himself for the time liberated from the other's scrutiny—steadily regarded with a look difficult to render,—a look curious of the operation of his tactics, a look such as might have been that of the spokesman of the envious children of Jacob deceptively imposing upon the troubled patriarch the blood-dyed coat of young Joseph.†   (source)
  • As the soldiers obediently unbuckled their heavy leather belts, the Jew set up a howl that surely would have been enough to bring all the patriarchs out of Hades and elsewhere, to defend their descendant from the brutality of this French official.†   (source)
  • The monk, overwhelmed with sorrow, went to the OEcumenical Patriarch at Constantinople and besought him to release him from his obedience.†   (source)
  • He has his favourite box, he bespeaks all the papers, he is down upon bald patriarchs, who keep them more than ten minutes afterwards.†   (source)
  • I deemed that yonder black-browed girl had been thy concubine, and I gave her to be a handmaiden to Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, after the fashion of patriarchs and heroes of the days of old, who set us in these matters a wholesome example.†   (source)
  • We thought a bolt had fallen in the middle of us; and Joseph swung on to his knees, beseeching the Lord to remember the patriarchs Noah and Lot, and, as in former times, spare the righteous, though he smote the ungodly.†   (source)
  • He was the patriarch of Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Saintete Claustrale, he was the Basil of the West.†   (source)
  • The hand soon stopped in the midst of them; the light that had always been feeble and dim behind the weak transparency, went out; and even Mrs. Gradgrind, emerged from the shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain, took upon her the dread solemnity of the sages and patriarchs.†   (source)
  • Take care, you are going to immure a traveller, Sinbad the Sailor, a man who comes to see Paris; you are going to make a patriarch of him.†   (source)
  • …down to his mark; and when this observance has made the circuit of the shores, then ejaculates the master of ceremonies, with satisfaction, tr-r-r-oonk! and each in his turn repeats the same down to the least distended, leakiest, and flabbiest paunched, that there be no mistake; and then the howl goes round again and again, until the sun disperses the morning mist, and only the patriarch is not under the pond, but vainly bellowing troonk from time to time, and pausing for a reply.†   (source)
  • Then—the morning light still waxing stronger—old patriarchs would rise up in great haste, each in his flannel gown, and matronly dames, without pausing to put off their night-gear.†   (source)
  • The room was soon filled with a motley assemblage, from the old gray-headed patriarch of eighty, to the young girl and lad of fifteen.†   (source)
  • Mr Lenville was a blooming warrior of most exquisite proportions; Mr Crummles, his large face shaded by a profusion of black hair, a Highland outlaw of most majestic bearing; one of the old gentlemen a jailer, and the other a venerable patriarch; the comic countryman, a fighting-man of great valour, relieved by a touch of humour; each of the Master Crummleses a prince in his own right; and the low-spirited lover, a desponding captive.†   (source)
  • Seth is a gracious young man—sincere and without offence; and Adam is like the patriarch Joseph, for his great skill and knowledge and the kindness he shows to his brother and his parents.†   (source)
  • There, likewise, fell the family Bible, which the long-buried patriarch had read to his children,--in prosperity or sorrow, by the fireside and in the summer shade of trees,--and had bequeathed downward as the heirloom of generations.†   (source)
  • From the moment that he took his seat, until the present instant, the lips of the patriarch had not severed, and scarcely a sign of life had escaped him.†   (source)
  • This patriarch now presented himself before Hepzibah, clad in an old blue coat, which had a fashionable air, and must have accrued to him from the cast-off wardrobe of some dashing clerk.†   (source)
  • Now, the old sofa was a regular patriarch of a sofa—long, broad, well-cushioned, and low, a trifle shabby, as well it might be, for the girls had slept and sprawled on it as babies, fished over the back, rode on the arms, and had menageries under it as children, and rested tired heads, dreamed dreams, and listened to tender talk on it as young women.†   (source)
  • That sagacious Miss Mills, too; that amiable, though quite used up, recluse; that little patriarch of something less than twenty, who had done with the world, and mustn't on any account have the slumbering echoes in the caverns of Memory awakened; what a kind thing she did!†   (source)
  • Not possible will the soul all rich, all eloquent, with thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature.†   (source)
  • Then touching on the entry of the councillor, he did not forget "the martial air of our militia;" nor "our most merry village maidens;" nor the "bald-headed old men like patriarchs who were there, and of whom some, the remnants of our phalanxes, still felt their hearts beat at the manly sound of the drums."†   (source)
  • He hired the first cab he met and told the driver to go to the Patriarch's Ponds, where the widow Bazdeev's house was.†   (source)
  • The honour and love you bear him is nothing but meet, for God has given him great gifts, and he uses them as the patriarch Joseph did, who, when he was exalted to a place of power and trust, yet yearned with tenderness towards his parent and his younger brother.†   (source)
  • "There's your fare!" says the patriarch to the coachman with a fierce grin and shaking his incapable fist at him.†   (source)
  • The passage at which he was utterly unable to say anything, and began fidgeting and cutting the table and swinging his chair, was where he had to repeat the patriarchs before the Flood.†   (source)
  • "My dear," said Villefort, in answer to his wife, "you know I have never been accustomed to play the patriarch in my family, nor have I ever considered that the fate of a universe was to be decided by my nod.†   (source)
  • Traddles, exactly the same simple, unaffected fellow as he ever was, sits at the foot of the large table like a Patriarch; and Sophy beams upon him, from the head, across a cheerful space that is certainly not glittering with Britannia metal.†   (source)
  • This outlaw's wife was, somehow or other, mixed up with a patriarch, living in a castle a long way off, and this patriarch was the father of several of the characters, but he didn't exactly know which, and was uncertain whether he had brought up the right ones in his castle, or the wrong ones; he rather inclined to the latter opinion, and, being uneasy, relieved his mind with a banquet, during which solemnity somebody in a cloak said 'Beware!' which somebody was known by nobody (except…†   (source)
  • Having reached the Patriarch's Ponds Pierre found the Bazdeevs' house, where he had not been for a long time past.†   (source)
  • However that may be, the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, "….†   (source)
  • This adventurous and venerable patriarch was now seen making his last remove; placing the "endless river" between him and the multitude his own success had drawn around him, and seeking for the renewal of enjoyments which were rendered worthless in his eyes, when trammelled by the forms of human institutions.†   (source)
  • But the Patriarch replied that not only was he unable to release him, but there was not and could not be on earth a power which could release him except the elder who had himself laid that duty upon him.†   (source)
  • The father of the Custom-House—the patriarch, not only of this little squad of officials, but, I am bold to say, of the respectable body of tide-waiters all over the United States—was a certain permanent Inspector.†   (source)
  • To the enquiries of Athelstane and Cedric, the old Jew could for some time only answer by invoking the protection of all the patriarchs of the Old Testament successively against the sons of Ishmael, who were coming to smite them, hip and thigh, with the edge of the sword.†   (source)
  • At last, it came out that the patriarch was the man who had treated the bones of the outlaw's father-in-law with so much disrespect, for which cause and reason the outlaw's wife repaired to his castle to kill him, and so got into a dark room, where, after a good deal of groping in the dark, everybody got hold of everybody else, and took them for somebody besides, which occasioned a vast quantity of confusion, with some pistolling, loss of life, and torchlight; after which, the…†   (source)
  • There were all the marked passages, which had thrilled his soul so often,—words of patriarchs and seers, poets and sages, who from early time had spoken courage to man,—voices from the great cloud of witnesses who ever surround us in the race of life.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the afternoon we came upon one of those very patriarchs ourselves, in the edge of a poor village.†   (source)
  • He felt himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him, as he saw the Hayslope patriarch, old Feyther Taft, descend from the waggon and walk towards him, in his brown nightcap, and leaning on his two sticks.†   (source)
  • …by heart, and when they were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms.†   (source)
  • "With what tongue does the prisoner speak to the Manitou?" demanded the patriarch, without unclosing his eyes.†   (source)
  • In other respects, it was a substantial, jolly-looking mansion, and seemed fit to be the residence of a patriarch, who might establish his own headquarters in the front gable and assign one of the remainder to each of his six children, while the great chimney in the centre should symbolize the old fellow's hospitable heart, which kept them all warm, and made a great whole of the seven smaller ones.†   (source)
  • …room, where, after a good deal of groping in the dark, everybody got hold of everybody else, and took them for somebody besides, which occasioned a vast quantity of confusion, with some pistolling, loss of life, and torchlight; after which, the patriarch came forward, and observing, with a knowing look, that he knew all about his children now, and would tell them when they got inside, said that there could not be a more appropriate occasion for marrying the young people than that; and…†   (source)
  • Then, elevating her rich features and beaming eyes, she continued, in tones scarcely less penetrating than the unearthly voice of the patriarch himself: "Tell me, is Tamenund a father?"†   (source)
  • His order has produced forty popes, two hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years.†   (source)
  • After a suitable and decent pause, the principal chiefs arose, and, approaching the patriarch, they placed his hands reverently on their heads, seeming to entreat a blessing.†   (source)
  • The patriarch who survived the Flood had with him three sons, and their families, by whom the world was repeopled.†   (source)
  • "Tell me, my children," continued the patriarch, hoarsely, motioning to those around him, though his eyes still dwelt upon the kneeling form of Cora, "where have the Delawares camped?"†   (source)
  • Before the patriarch was done with his expletives, a dozen hands were at the bits of the horses, and their quiet assured.†   (source)
  • The calm and deep silence which succeeded these words sufficiently announced the awful reverence with which his people received the communication of the patriarch.†   (source)
  • Far more than mere pride of property—more than anxiety for the result of the race—in his view it was within the possible for the patriarch, according to his habits of thought and his ideas of the inestimable, to love such animals with a tenderness akin to the most sensitive passion.†   (source)
  • Magua, whose feelings during that scene in which Uncas had triumphed may be much better imagined than described, answered to the call by stepping boldly in front of the patriarch.†   (source)
  • The eyes of the patriarch glowed mildly, and, raising his head, and looking the inquisitor full in the face, he answered, his associates giving him closest attention, "With thee, O king, be the peace of God, of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!"†   (source)
  • He had a reputation to keep with his tribe, such as became a prince and patriarch of the greatest following in all the Desert east of Syria; with the people of the cities he had another reputation, which was that of one of the richest personages not a king in all the East; and, being rich in fact—in money as well as in servants, camels, horses, and flocks of all kinds—he took pleasure in a certain state, which, besides magnifying his dignity with strangers, contributed to his personal…†   (source)
  • When perfect silence was again restored, and after the usual long, impressive pause, one of the two aged chiefs who sat at the side of the patriarch arose, and demanded aloud, in very intelligible English: "Which of my prisoners is La Longue Carabine?"†   (source)
  • The dress of this patriarch—for such, considering his vast age, in conjunction with his affinity and influence with his people, he might very properly be termed—was rich and imposing, though strictly after the simple fashions of the tribe.†   (source)
  • In such light as I could, my Judah, I have set our great men before you—patriarchs, legislators, warriors, singers, prophets.†   (source)
  • But Cora, instead of obeying the impulse he had expected, rushed to the feet of the patriarch, and, raising her voice, exclaimed aloud: "Just and venerable Delaware, on thy wisdom and power we lean for mercy!†   (source)
  • "I know," said Ilderim, taking some of the rings in his hand—"I know with what care and zeal, my son, the scribes of the Temple in the Holy City keep the names of the newly born, that every son of Israel may trace his line of ancestry to its beginning, though it antedate the patriarchs.†   (source)
  • All under foot was fresh grass, in Syria the rarest and most beautiful production of the soil; if he looked up, it was to see the sky paley blue through the groinery of countless date-bearers, very patriarchs of their kind, so numerous and old, and of such mighty girth, so tall, so serried, so wide of branch, each branch so perfect with fronds, plumy and waxlike and brilliant, they seemed enchanters enchanted.†   (source)
  • Heyward struggled madly with his captors; the anxious eye of Hawkeye began to look around him, with an expression of peculiar earnestness; and Cora again threw herself at the feet of the patriarch, once more a suppliant for mercy.†   (source)
  • "I remember, that when a laughing boy," returned the patriarch, with the peculiar recollection of vast age, "I stood upon the sands of the sea shore, and saw a big canoe, with wings whiter than the swan's, and wider than many eagles, come from the rising sun."†   (source)
  • On the delivery of this solemn judgment, the patriarch seated himself, and closed his eyes again, as if better pleased with the images of his own ripened experience than with the visible objects of the world.†   (source)
  • When he cast off the Patriarch at night, it was only to take an anonymous craft in tow, and labour away afresh in other waters.†   (source)
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