And then he sat on the bed and we had a nice little chat, uncle and nephew, foster-father to foster-son. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Jamieson, — her menial situation, and her excessive partiality for her foster-son, considered, — altogether such a matron as could afford her protection. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In another Irish legend, Diarmait mac Cerbaill, king of all Ireland, is killed by his foster-son Aed Dub by drowning, burning and stabbing see Wikipedia. ❋ Carla (2008)
The connexion between them and their foster-children was considered a tie far too dearly intimate to be broken; and it usually happened, in the course of years, that the nurse became a resident in the family of her foster-son, assisting in the domestic duties, and receiving all marks of attention and regard from the heads of the family. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Her heart, perhaps, fixed itself almost with almost a warmer love on Frank Gresham, her foster-son. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was good to see tomorrow's generation of clansmen testing their mettle, and his son Draig and foster-son Gwalchmai were among them. ❋ Gemmell, David (1995)
The Hawkbrothers Moondance and Starwind, and their foster-son Brightstar were the ones that had helped him the most. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1990)
Elrond receives him as foster-son and gives him the name Estel (Hope); his ancestry is concealed. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)
York to visit his foster-son, who had left Scotland for America when a lad, had gone out in the afternoon into the great city, bidding Jeanie carefully guard their small luggage -- a few treasures tied up in a silken kerchief, and Granny's precious umbrella, which was a sort of heirloom in the family. ❋ Various (N/A)
"And yet her foster-son, the king, has often sent for her." ❋ Various (N/A)
Before he could well tell his story, the most of it became known to his foster-son, for the Commissioners, finding he did not return to Castle ❋ Various (N/A)
In vain he had asked every one to tell him where his foster-son Alec ❋ Various (N/A)
But you've nursed that foster-son from his babyhood, and don't you yet know that disposition of his, how that he takes his skin and flesh and sticks it, (not on the body of a relative), but, on the contrary, on that of an outsider and stranger? ❋ Xueqin Cao (N/A)
And so passed the early springtide, Roy waxing fat and strong, Tzaritza never relaxing her care, though at first it was a sore trial to her to remain behind with her foster-son while her beloved mistress galloped away upon Shashai. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Tzaritza with her foster-son followed in Peggy's wake, Tzaritza sniffing inquiringly at the saddle, ❋ Unknown (N/A)
But Regin the smith did not give up his hopes of possessing the hoard: he adopted as his foster-son Sigurd the Volsung, thus getting into his power the hero fated to slay the dragon. ❋ L. Winifred Faraday (N/A)
As usual, _Völsunga_ gives the fullest account, in the form of a story told by Regin to his foster-son Sigurd, to incite him to slay the dragon. ❋ L. Winifred Faraday (N/A)
The next fragment brings Regin and Sigurd together, and the smith takes the young Volsung for his foster-son. ❋ L. Winifred Faraday (N/A)
