"Foster father" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said in her quaint, deliberate English that Mic-co was her white foster father. The Seminoles called him Es-ta-chat-tee-mic-co—chief of the White Race. Most of them called him simply Mic-co. He was a great and good medicine man of much wisdom who dwelt upon a fertile chain of swamp islands in the Everglades. ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... Cosmopolitan from the floor. She had dropped it in her agitation at finding her foster father had fainted. ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... preface to this collection of poems must be my excuse for obtruding myself upon the reader. Having frequently had the pleasure as editor of The Canadian Monthly, of introducing many of Mrs. MacLean's poems to lovers of verse in the Dominion it was thought not unfitting that I should act as foster father to the collection of them here made and to bespeak for the volume at the hands at least of all Canadians the appreciative and kindly reception ...
— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean
... Mr. Henfrey's will she was, of course, in ignorance. The girl had no idea of the great plot which had been formed by her foster father and ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
... you with the eye of a friend. In truth, Paula, you have forgotten how to look around and forward. The life which lies behind you and which you have lost is all your world. I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers |
