"Parentally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pick up the bad 'abit of droppin' 'er haitches," he warned, parentally. "I'll learn 'er a lot, but that's one thing I mustn't learn 'er. I don't do it often—Oh, once in a wye, mybe—but that's something madam speaks right already—just like ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... worriedly to it, and he is flung far out into the fringe of waves, to pick his shivering way up again and again from the water. These children have a white rat, also, which they chase over the sand, and souse into puddles, and otherwise maltreat. It is useless to interfere parentally, and we hardly see our way to buying either rat or monkey, even to ensure them a peaceable old age. One wonders why children have this queer taint of cruelty. Unconscious cruelty it may be, but it seems none the less out of place in their fresh, unused nature. ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix |
