It is useless to interfere parentally, and we hardly see our way to buying either rat or monkey, even to ensure them a peaceable old age.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
He did not say that he had shown it parentally while the tragedy was threatening, or at least there was danger of a precipitate descent from the levels of comedy.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
But could he afford parentally to lose the boy?
"The High Calling"
Charles M. Sheldon