1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 4 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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 5 The calm and deep silence which succeeded these words sufficiently announced the awful reverence with which his people received the communication of the patriarch.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 6 Uncas took the scout by the hand, and led him to the feet of the patriarch.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 7 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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 8 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.
9 Uncle Tom was a sort of patriarch in religious matters, in the neighborhood.
10 Right in front of the house, upon the left-hand side of the drive, there stood a patriarch among oaks, one of the most magnificent trees that I have ever seen.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 11 And, even with this terror in his heart, he could hardly avoid laughing, to imagine how the sanctified old patriarchal deacon would have been petrified by his minister's impiety.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE 12 Levin, who had long been familiar with these patriarchal methods, exchanged glances with Sviazhsky and interrupted Mihail Petrovitch, turning again to the gentleman with the gray whiskers.
13 Tradition it holds sacred; it is a patriarchal people; it cannot live without faith.
14 You're an advocate of patriarchal despotism.
15 Both her cast of form and feature, her complexion and her general air, suggested the idea of some Israelitish princess of the patriarchal days; and such was doubtless the character she intended to represent.