The words were as gentle as if he had been speaking to one of his own children, and he drew her to him with a tender, protecting fatherliness which seemed the natural habit of his life, such as never, in her poor, forlorn life, had any one shown to Christian Oakley.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
"Yes, it's most kind of you," said Mr. Sandys, putting his arm within his daughter's with a pleasant air of fatherliness.
"Watersprings"
Arthur Christopher Benson
What was there in this wine of great age which expelled reasonableness, fatherliness?
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith