be a good provider

He works hard to be a good provider for his wife and children.

In this family, the hard-working father was a good provider.

If the parents liked the man and knew him to be a good provider, they were sometimes agreeable.

Bennett's father does not appear to have been a good provider for his family, though the reason is unclear.

"My husband is a good provider and a good father," she said.

"So you'd be a good provider," Richard said, and his voice was full of scorn.

"A father may have been a good provider but was absent emotionally from the child's life.

He has been a good provider, but he just doesn't understand love.

Although he has only a middle-class income, he is a good provider for his family.

His father was a good provider, but very tough, leading him to feel abandoned and unloved.

The husband who, if a little short-tempered and quick to use his fists, had always been a good provider?

She was a good provider: a quiet woman who appreciated well-crafted things.

He was a good provider and capable husband.

Bob was a good provider, but he hadn't the imagination to understand anything more important than making a living and planning his next fishing trip.

Like the buffalo who knows where to go, is a good provider and good for his family".

She was a good provider, my my mother was.

Robert, tall and stout, was a good provider.

In all these months, my mother has not only been a good provider, she has been a good friend.

I'm beginning to be gnawed by worries that I may never know the contentment and satisfaction of being a good provider.

The army is a good provider for the young, and there hasn't really been an army here for-oh, many years!

Charlie, content with having been a good provider, feels entitled to just lie there, resting on his old laurels.

Hoom, for all his mildness and lack of initiative, was a good provider.

He will be a good provider."

Lord Melongel was a good provider and, while the weather remained so bitter, opened his stores to those who were short of food.

It was easy to joke about money then, when I was in college and secure in the fact that my father was a good provider.