The coat had also come down to him from his late father.

Coming from his father, the words were practically a speech.

The next morning came a compact letter from her father.

The stopping of it has to come from her father.

Those words coming from her father would have been followed by a hard slap.

A long and heavy sigh had come from her father.

So he was surprised when the next message came from his father.

"They came from my father for me as a gift."

The offer of marriage generally comes from the boy's father.

That style, he has often said, came from his father.