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    If it seems odd to call a patriarch "Junior," there was a logical explanation.†  (source)
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    The Kennedy family takes all its directives from their patriarch.†  (source)
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    To me he was a patriarch with authority over me, but he seemed to surrender that authority the moment I passed through his door.†  (source)
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    I had seen those movies where the patriarch of the family is on his death bed and he calls for his estranged son so that he can make peace before he goes.†  (source)
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    "But," he cried, "one of the Patriarchs!"†  (source)
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    In an HBO documentary about eastern Kentucky hill people, the patriarch of a large Appalachian family introduces himself by drawing strict lines between work acceptable for men and work acceptable for women.†  (source)
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    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)
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    In addition, it had become generally known in the bar that anyone who could drink all four cocktails back to back earned the right to be called "The Patriarch of All Russia"—as soon as he regained consciousness.†  (source)
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    And by all the other patriarchs, I know.†  (source)
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    And then I glimpsed him, a man rising from the shadows: like a figure from myth, the great patriarch of the Wildes, Fellow of the Royal Society, recipient of the Copley Medal and the Bakerian lectureship, the man whose learning had kindled his son's mind and never burned down, the man who had drawn us north through icefield and hazard, against what odds, oh, that man, whose very treatise on the icy nature of comets once left the Sorbonne in chaos, whose learning could be expressed in twelve languages, who admired the jokes of the Tartars and the salads of the Inca, who had instructed his three-year-old son to scoop when his hand held a knife and to cut when it held a spoon, for no person oug†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    During the times of the patriarchs, times of war, the birth of our nation, I get it.†  (source)
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