"But a lot duller," his father observed darkly, and a moment later turned right, away from the square.

"Of course you must go," her father had observed.

But Fred, as his father had often observed, "was not a good mixer for nothing."

Once the father observed that his son was "no better than a garage hand."

Scarcely had they finished, when her father observed a shade of anxiety come upon his little daughter's face.

The father observes that another boy has learned algebra and geometry in the same time.

Adrian's father had already observed that the child looked comparatively well this morning.

As their father had once observed, not long before the fall that carried him off, "Bright or dim, that's a lot of meat in motion."

"He must be on dry land," his father observes at one point, "because he's drawing eagles."

My father has observed this thousands of times in his thirty-five years studying the connection.