Her Portuguese mother had died years earlier and her father has now taken native wives and sired several children with them.

Cugel, watching, at last was able to hazard a guess as to how four fathers might sire a single son.

In April, the news broke that Rih had two older sisters and a brother whom her father sired with different mothers.

We have the same mother, but different fathers sired us.

"Your father certainly sired a number of sons," Malcolm remarked, his rasping voice tinged with envy.

There are times,' he said bleakly, 'when I wish your father had sired a son.

My father had sired Adam and me and all fourteen of his children by the time he was the age I am now.

Her father could have sired more children, but he had transferred his remaining permits to Sanni, who wanted them.

This means that society can hold fathers responsible for the children they sire.

Only a father who was a coward would sire sons who were unable to fight.