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1 I have known many fond and tender parents, but never have I seen a man whose heart was softer toward his child.
The Last of the MohicansBy James Fenimore Cooper ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
2 Thither Tamenund also retired, with calm composure, after a short and touching interview with Uncas; from whom the sage separated with the reluctance that a parent would quit a long lost and just recovered child.
The Last of the MohicansBy James Fenimore Cooper ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 31
3 Even the children would not be excluded; but boys, little able to wield the instruments, tore the tomahawks from the belts of their fathers, and stole into the ranks, apt imitators of the savage traits exhibited by their parents.
The Last of the MohicansBy James Fenimore Cooper ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23
4 The scout, who by this time was seated, examining into the state of his rifle with a species of parental assiduity, now looked up at the other in a displeasure that he did not affect to conceal, roughly interrupting further speech.
The Last of the MohicansBy James Fenimore Cooper ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12
5 Munro started, as if the last trumpet had sounded in his ear, and bestowing one anxious and hurried glance around him, he arose and followed in the simple train, with the mien of a soldier, but bearing the full burden of a parent's suffering.
The Last of the MohicansBy James Fenimore Cooper ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 33
6 As the thoughts of those who are in misery seldom slumber, and the invention is never more lively than when it is stimulated by hope, however feeble and remote, he had even imagined that the parental feelings of Munro were to be made instrumental in seducing him from his duty to the king.
The Last of the MohicansBy James Fenimore Cooper ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10
7 At first it seemed as if the remembrance of the promised reward grew vivid in his mind, while he listened to the sources of parental feeling which were to assure its possession; but, as Duncan proceeded, the expression of joy became so fiercely malignant that it was impossible not to apprehend it proceeded from some passion more sinister than avarice.
The Last of the MohicansBy James Fenimore Cooper ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11