Did he have any paternal feelings for me?

"I have 250 dealers here and I have a paternal feeling toward them," he said.

Do you think he's got any very strong paternal feeling for them?

Watching him, he felt warm, paternal human feelings, which surprised him.

It also shows a growth of paternal feeling by Hornblower toward junior officers.

Still, some company was better than none, and he had vaguely paternal feelings toward the little alien.

Where was the paternal feeling when he threw the halberd at you?

She made him feel old and important, and he stroked her hair with a paternal proprietary feeling.

Terry has become a new father and must deal with Russell's paternal feelings as well as his own.

At first he had adored her as a child, his feelings paternal and platonic.