padre
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After confiding in a padre - a military chaplain - the 56-year-old says she was reported to bosses and admitted to hospital, where she was held in isolation.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The padre had always had a warm spot for the young man with a sly sense of humor and delicate “LA” tattooed beside his left eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
At the Met as Idamante — another trouser role — she found clear paths between soft, somber tones and quicksilver intensity, her “Il padre adorato” commanding yet sweet, crystal clear and diamond sharp.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
And at the end, when she dies, she says, “Mio padre, addio!”
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
“Captain Balan,” said the peregrine, “it is rude to whisper. We will proceed to swear the new officer in. Now, padre, if you please.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
“When the padres came through … they used the words ‘a land of abundance.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
His full name and years of life were in the middle, along with the legend “Recuerdo de sus padres y hermanos” — “A memento of Jose’s parents and siblings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Brought to the New World by the Spanish padres, the pomegranate is a curious and beautiful fruit, an ancient symbol of birth and eternal life.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012
I want it to hold the romance of the Pilgrim fathers … the romance of the Spanish conquistadores and of the French padres.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2012
There were two padres, one sitting and talking to a man lying on his side, the other praying by a shape under a blanket.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
The stewards, most of whom understood a few words of English, readily grasped the fact that the padri was asking for help in a situation which they well knew to be desperate.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
We shook hands with our smiling friends among the padri, took leave of the archbishop, and then visited the studio of Padre Alessio, who had just finished a faithful and spirited portrait of monsignore.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
There!--this has done more to make me believe in a Providence than all the preaching of all the padri of Italy!
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper
Santa Maria!—what is it they are saying about Fra Paolo finding the die for making money that the padri left behind?
From A Golden Book of Venice by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
