fathered
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Fathered by one man but bearing the name of another, with a mother who spent her son’s early years imprisoned for robbery, young Charlie lived with various relatives but never for too long.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2013
Fathered by a Samoan teenager, adopted at nine months by the Greek owner of a San Diego fishing-boat dock, Louganis had a stammeringly shy childhood that was further complicated by dyslexia and asthma.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fathered triplets at 69 and wrote a TV play about it?
From Time Magazine Archive
The mind of man can compass many things, But still, to reach perfection's dizzy height, It should be centered on some special point, Fathered by energy, to reach the goal.
From 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts by Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)
Fathered by the fear of this disease, mothered by opium, and reared by unhygiene and eye-strain, came the miserable "St. Anthony" of the second remaking.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
