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She decided that though she had three good dads (or perhaps, three fatherly friends), none of them were perfect, for they had wrongfully deceived her.
She was released from jail after the fatherly intercession of a police officer.
Where is your fatherly heart?
First of all, the novel goes far towards establishing working-class men as exemplars of a new model of fatherly care.
The small man when he starts wants a fatherly guiding hand.
He is a popular figure, always ready with some fatherly advice and a good yarn to tell.
He is writing fatherly letters of advice up and down the country telling people how to save water, and what they should do.
I have heard with astonishment the declarations from the benches opposite—their sudden fatherly interest in the children.
One can perhaps picture a fatherly chief constable giving advice to an officer who has just entered the force.
However, a friendship grew up— it could hardly have been otherwise—because of his integrity, experience and fatherly attitude towards someone much younger.
He has taken the roads under his fatherly care; he looks upon himself as occupying a specially created post of godfather in regard to roads.
We want less of the great-grandfather attitude on the bench, and a little more of the fatherly attitude, in dealing with the unfortunate people who come before our courts.
The fact that the police are able in this way to deal with these lads in this fatherly, almost family, way is a great feather in their cap.
He seems fatherly to the twins, having known them from birth.
He's fallen in love with her over years of ghostly observation, fatherly attention turning to infatuation.
