Stepmother Sentence Examples

He mustn't be without a stepmother either!

Her stepmother-- Jonny's mother-- had said as much.

His own mother taught him to read, and his stepmother urged him to study.

The second Mrs Godwin was energetic and painstaking, but a harsh stepmother; and it may be doubted whether the children were not worse off under her care than they would have been under Godwin's neglect.

For incest with his own mother, both were burned to death; with a stepmother, the man was disinherited; with a daughter, the man was exiled; with a daughter-in-law, he was drowned; with a son's betrothed, he was fined.

Exile was inflicted for incest with a daughter; disinheritance for incest with a stepmother or for repeated unfilial conduct.

She will be little Nicholas' stepmother and I'll marry Bourienne!...

The evil stepmother is punished for her cruelty.

If the name is 'Dawkins,' my guess is she's a stepmother.

At least Dean had refrained from disclosing the tie to the Dawkinses—Josh, the missing mine manager—nor had he mentioned he knew the name of the Dawkinses' stepmother.

Dean took advantage of the time before the water fight to detail to Cynthia his conversation with the Dawkinses' stepmother.

There followed a long conflict, with alternations of success and defeat, which was not terminated till the death of the prince of Viana, perhaps by poison given him by his stepmother, in 1461.

Children also shared their own mother's property, but had no share in that of a stepmother.

Alexander II., entering Alexandria under Roman patronage, married, and within twenty days assassinated, his elderly cousin and stepmother.

It is evident that the relationships which prohibited marriage were different from those recognized by the Church; but the only fact which we know definitely is that it was customary, at least in Kent, for a man to marry his stepmother.

Of his other writings on marine zoology, most are contained in the bulletins and memoirs of the museum of comparative zoology; but he published in 1865 (with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, his stepmother) Seaside Studies in Natural History, a work at once exact and stimulating, and in 1871 Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay.

As with Goldsmith, and so many other men who have become artists of the pen, college proved a stepmother to him.

Cowper's stepmother is buried in Bath, and a tablet on the walls of the cathedral commemorates her memory.

At least Dean had refrained from disclosing the tie to the Dawkinses—Josh, the missing mine manager—nor had he mentioned he knew the name of the Dawkinses' stepmother.

If the skeleton dated back to the 1960's, as they were now beginning to believe, all the current players—the four Dawkinses, stepmother Jenny Radisson, and even Fitzgerald—would have barely been born, thereby excusing them from any direct culpability.

All three returned to find they now had a new stepmother.

The two eventually started dating and married in 1963; White became stepmother to Ludden's four children from a previous marriage.

The state is not a wicked stepmother stopping us going to the ball.

But he found a stepmother there; and this apparition on his father's hearth at first rather appalled him.

The two eventually started dating and married in 1963; White became stepmother to Ludden 's four children from a previous marriage.

Her father, a Christian, died leaving his young children in the care of a cruel stepmother.

Mr. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother.

Nobody wants to be the Ugly Stepmother when you can be Cinderella--or at least her naughty, glamorous younger sister.

Mackenzie's sister Chyna believes her story, while her stepmother Genevieve Waite, does not.

In rare cases, a biological father is awarded primary custody, and a stepmother can become a full-time stepparent.

Joining a stepmother support group can be helpful in working out frustrations and problems in the stepmother role.

Sources close to the couple say Kevin's daughter Kori and son Kaleb have taken a liking to their new stepmother.

Cinderella, star of Disney's Cinderella, is rescued from her wicked stepmother and jealous sisters by her Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming.

Cinderella's loving father passed away, leaving her to take care of the whims of her selfish stepmother and two ugly, wicked stepsisters.

The evil stepmother eventually succeeds in putting her into a sleep that only the kiss from a prince can wake her from.

Adam's heinous actions in 2009 included taking over Newman Enterprises and firing his siblings, gas lighting Ashley Abbott Newman, his stepmother and conspiring with Jack Abbott to frame Victor for murder.

His father, Michael, remarried a year later, though Miles never met his stepmother.

In Native American lore, the idea that beings can change between human and animal shape is as commonplace as the wicked stepmother in European tales.

You didn't like your stepmother?

He appears to have taken some part in public business before the death of his father; and the court at Berlin was soon disturbed by quarrels between the young prince and his stepmother, Dorothea of Holstein-Gliicksburg.

Yes, a nice stepmother little Nicholas will have!

Meet the original wicked stepmother.

In 827 he married Emma, daughter of Welf I., count of Bavaria, and sister of his stepmother Judith; and he soon began to interfere in the quarrels arising from Judith's efforts to secure a kingdom for her own son Charles, and the consequent struggles of Louis and his brothers with the emperor Louis I.