Mother Sentence Examples
I live with my mother and daughter.
I knew because he proved to me that I could trust him with my heart and soul - the way you trust your mother and father.
Your mother is very anxious.
Why did your mother tie your tails?
Six-month old Dandy nickered to his mother, but Casper was busy talking to Princess and Dawn.
The Iberian Mother of God! someone cried.
Mother, what are the clouds made of?
Nicholas suddenly felt a desire and need to tell his most intimate thoughts (which he would not have told to his mother, his sister, or his friend) to this woman who was almost a stranger.
The mother sat down in the shade of a tree and began to read in a new book which she had bought the day before.
Mother will make ice-cream for dinner, we will have ice-cream and cake for dinner.
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You mean he thinks that he has to take care of his mother, now that his father is gone?
Their mouths were open for the food they were expecting their mother to give them.
Like he said; he only has one mother, and he can finish his schooling later.
If your father is American and your mother Chinese, you will have a different understanding of differences between those countries, and, on balance, will be less amenable to war between those nations.
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Speaking of your mother, we'd better go in so she doesn't worry.
She heard him talking to his mother and she heard his conversation with the man in the black car.
Is that why you want to take me up there - to show your mother how ridiculous the thought of any hanky panky is?
Don't make me choose between you and my mother, Adrienne.
AdvertisementWhen Benjamin's father came home, his mother showed him the picture.
They are too young to fly, and the mother bird is making a great fuss about it.
Are you blaming a little boy for what his mother did?
His gaze shifted to his mother and his expression softened.
His mother never needed to learn.
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My mother, moreover, succeeded in making me understand a good deal.
The countess glanced at her daughter, saw her face full of shame for her mother, saw her agitation, and understood why her husband did not turn to look at her now, and she glanced round quite disconcerted.
Of course, they didn't have the same mother, either.
One day when they were with their mother, she showed them a wonderful book that some rich friend had given her.
On the day that he was seven years old, his mother gave him a few pennies.
His heart will be hard indeed if he can refuse his mother and his wife.
Why would his mother insist that she stay?
And the conversation I overheard between you and your mother tonight?
In France there once lived a famous man who was known as the Marquis de Lafayette. When he was a little boy his mother called him Gilbert.
He said he had talked to his mother.
Time to be with his mother, and time to get over his father's death.
I'm not forcing you to make a choice between me and your mother.
It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.
Mother usually knows what she is about, but she made a mistake this time; for you are sure to escape us unless you come too near, and you probably won't do that.
They saw the mother robin flying about, and crying to her mate.
His mother unlocked her cabinet and took the precious volume from its place of safe keeping.
But his mother kissed him and gave him the beautiful book.
My mother and several of my friends said they would help me with the establishment of a public library.
This morning we received word that mother had given her consent to this arrangement.
First she heard her mother praying and sighing and the creaking of her bed under her, then Madame Schoss' familiar whistling snore and Sonya's gentle breathing.
Apparently his greatest concern was the fact that his mother was married to his adoptive father at the time he was conceived.
Yancey stepped through the door with his arms full of groceries and Lisa didn't miss the warning look he shot his mother.
He stayed at his mother's side, comforting her.
I wanted to stay, but I thought you wanted to be alone with your mother.
All this time he had to remain strong for his mother.
Hadn't she been patient while he stayed with his mother?
How's your mother doing these days?
If I didn't know you better, I'd swear you didn't think your mother was worth the cost.
His mother smiled, for she felt quite sure that there was no danger.
If I wanted my mother to make ice-cream for dinner I made the sign for working the freezer and shivered, indicating cold.
Mother will buy me lovely new aprons and dress to take to Boston.
Mildred is out in the yard playing, and mother is picking the delicious strawberries.
Sometimes, when mother does not know it, she goes out into the vineyard, and gets her apron full of delicious grapes.
I think mother will be glad to make the dress for you, and when you wear it you will look as pretty as a rose.
Give father and mother a great deal of love and many hugs and kisses for me.
My dear Mother, Yesterday I sent you a little Christmas box.
Now, sweet mother, your little girl must say good-bye.
Please give your dear mother my love.
You will be glad to hear that my mother, and little sister and brother are coming north to spend this summer with me.
My mother, and sister and little brother have been here five weeks, and our happiness knows no bounds.
Her mother interfered at this point and showed Helen by signs that she must not touch the bag.
It was St. Natalia's day and the name day of two of the Rostovs--the mother and the youngest daughter--both named Nataly.
I apologize for badgering you about your mother.
The boy was the son of a dirt-poor single mother.
She's cute as a princess and smart, like her mother.
He did a lot of bad things, and his mother was a demoness, a powerful one who seduced his father.
When he saw his mother and his wife and his children, he was filled with joy.
At one end of the room there was a big fireplace, where the mother did the cooking.
The mother is a physician and a brilliant woman, he says.
Her face flushed, and when her mother attempted to take the bag from her, she grew very angry.
She kept going to the door, as if she expected some one, and every now and then she would touch her cheek, which is her sign for her mother, and shake her head sadly.
I think my mother got me from heaven, but I do not know where that place is.
My mother sat beside my little bed and tried to soothe my feverish moans while in her troubled heart she prayed, "Father in Heaven, spare my baby's life!"
Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and carrying her burden so lightly.
She leaned against her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even the prim visitor could not help joining in.
When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostov that he was living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it.
Tell me, for God's sake, what will Russia, our mother Russia, say to our being so frightened, and why are we abandoning our good and gallant Fatherland to such rabble and implanting feelings of hatred and shame in all our subjects?
Among those who ventured to doubt the justifiability of the proposed marriage was Helene's mother, Princess Kuragina.
Tomorrow after dinner I shall take the Iberian icon of the Mother of God to the wounded in the Catherine Hospital where we will have some water blessed.
The conflict of magnanimity between the mother and the daughter, ending in the mother's sacrificing herself and offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now agitated the captain, though it was the memory of a distant past.
Two girls of about ten and twelve, dressed in dirty short frocks and cloaks, were staring at their mother with a look of stupefaction on their pale frightened faces.
But seeing a stranger the sickly, scrofulous-looking child, unattractively like her mother, began to yell and run away.
I am sure your mother will be grateful to me.
Señor Medena married my mother when I was a baby.
His mother must have been secretive as well.
Lisa hesitated, afraid of blundering further, but why did he need a sitter when his mother lived in the house?
After all, he was the one who insisted that his mother was her boss.
Let him explain all of it to his mother.
She plunged into the food on her plate, discovering that Brandon wasn't bragging about his mother's cooking.
Brandon turned to his mother.
I'm going to stay here with mother.
But after Mother died everything changed.
Anyway, he didn't know your mother was sick.
Only she wasn't going to lie down and give up like her mother.
He had a fight with your mother that night and went into town.
I never met your mother, but if she was anything like you, I reckon he thought she'd do just that.
My mother wouldn't hurt a fly.
The furniture - it was handed down to my mother and she left it to me.
If you don't want to talk about your mother, we won't.
What makes you think the topic of my mother is...
They ate in silence then, enjoying the tranquility of mother natures' work around them.
Why didn't his mother see the beauty of the ranch?
His mother, Martha's Aunt Rose says he's not the same person.
Why should I remember a 'Get out of Jail Free' card and not recognize my own mother, or a picture of my father or sister; or this bratty cousin?
I've spent a lot of time discussing my past with my mother.
It's his mother calling from Santa Barbara.
I asked my mother about visiting the country or a farm and she insisted I'd never travelled anywhere but here in New Hampshire until I left for the seminary.
Howie has no recollection and his mother won't even discuss the subject.
It described how Timothy's mother had left her son in their enclosed yard to answer a phone call.
Once he did, he moved to the back yard where mother was pushing her gleeful young son on a large wooden swing set.
As soon as the mother entered the house, he pocketed the phone, scaled the fence at a low corner, crossed to the surprised boy in a few steps, and placed a rag over his face.
He felt the mother's demeanor suggested she was preparing a bogus story.
Number three was a father taking a son from the boy's mother who held custody rights.
He's Eric Campbell's grandfather on his mother's side.
Baby Claire was often in evidence in our work place, sleeping on mother's arm or in her file cabinet remodeled crib, or supping on Martha's breast.
That's not something I can ask my mother, for god's sake!
Three. He killed the mother and father so there was no one to report their daughter missing, for nearly a week.
I wisely followed with my careful research of recent births in this community until I found mother LeBlanc, lately arrived from a city near Lynn, Massachusetts!
Is this beautiful mother the tipster?
I'll pay a visit the beautiful mother on Greenbriar Road.
Molly was all smiles, but disappointed in not being transferred to her mother when she realized I was speaking to California.
He needs desperately to know what happened to his sister and what he did that turned his own mother against him.
He buried his mother today.
She's visiting with her mother, over in Denver.
They spouted some cock-and-bull story that their mother always wanted them to have the property.
My mother left when I was nine days old.
Carmen was right; he had forgiven his mother but not his biological father.
Still, his mother had not pursued him relentlessly the way his father had.
Like all the brothers on the Council That Was Seven, he had the same father and a different mother.
Toby's birth certificate listed her as the mother, no father, and the naval hospital in Annapolis as his birthplace.
What kind of mother let her five-year-old son carry on with death like he was a favorite uncle?
I have to have a human mother.
Rhyn's mother was a powerful demon, and his father is the same as Kris's.
His glance went to the other women in the showers, who either ignored him or weren't going to say something to someone whose mother was a demon.
He'd gone from being tormented by his own mother to the affection of an abusive father who regretted ever having him.
Rhyn faced his mother again.
Rhyn watched him go, wondering just what his brother was planning, and how he.d figure it out before Katie was hung on the wall next to his mother.
He.d need to be if she turned out to be much worse of a mother.
He explored the crypt, gaze going to the display of his mother on one wall.
Gazing at his dismembered mother, he couldn.t help thinking they were right.
His own mother had been far from beautiful, and his father had told him the signs he'd found the right woman were unmistakable.
If he could've saved my father and mother, he would've.
Even Romas's mother had inquired about Kiera.
He recalled his mother, her heavy features nonetheless made beautiful by her radiant smile as she swung a waist-high Talal around.
What if she looked upon him as his mother had his father, with adoration and love?
He'd never cared for another woman in the way his father had loved his mother.
Her look of soul-deep sorrow touched him, and he recalled what he felt as a youth to find his father and mother dead and his family hunted and forced out of their own home.
There was a sound on the stairs and they all turned as the boy's mother paused just inside the room.
Perhaps that's why many of the citizens of the picturesque town decided they might as well enjoy mother nature's offerings rather than remain locked indoors for six or seven months.
Cynthia's widowed mother was a librarian in a small Indiana town.
The only other skaters were a mother and her four-year old pig-tailed professional level daughter and an old man who skated like a retired gold medalist.
Donnie sat close to his mother doing a Denver Post crossword puzzle.
The boy looked at his mother for an answer.
Donnie tugged at his mother's hem and motioned to the dress, nodding his head.
Donnie continued to tug and look up at his mother.
Donnie popped to his feet and brushed a kiss on his mother's cheek and resumed his work.
Donnie smiled at his mother and nodded his approval.
Donnie ran up to his mother and gave her a hug.
Janet was late again and Cynthia's bedside attempt to call her mother in Indiana resulted in unanswered rings, causing her further concern.
She responded to Dean's hug, saying she felt better, but was still concerned about her mother.
He went on to add judiciously that elevation changed Mother Nature's rules about the weather every few hundred feet.
Cynthia, it's your mother.
Janet O'Brien had just told me my wife's mother had a heart attack, for God's sake!
He thought she wasn't mature enough to be a mother?
No mother should want to leave her child to go to some other world, her mate said.
It was her responsibility now and having a job would give her the opportunity for a more modern approach to being a wife and mother.
But she wasn't like her mother – or maybe she was.
She would have been a terrific mother too, but I guess it wasn't in the plans.
Anyway, since when did you get to be such a mother hen?
You cannot bury your mother if you're too weak to carry her, can you?
He made your mother suffer.
You replaced his mother; it's how he views you.
She was not what you'd call a caring mother figure.
His mother married Francois de Balzac, marquis d'Entragues, and one of her daughters, Henriette, marchioness of Verneuil, afterwards became the mistress of Henry IV.
In 1394 the countship came to the house of Orleans, a member of which, Francis I., became king of France in 1515 and raised it to the rank of duchy in favour of his mother Louise of Savoy.
During the campaign he met his wife, Anita, who became his inseparable companion and mother of three children, Anita, Ricciotti and Menotti.
According to another story, her son Perseus, on his return with the head of Medusa, finding his mother persecuted by Polydectes, turned him into stone, and took Danae back with him to Argos.
The young tsar married the boyarinya Lopukhina at his mother's command.
If there is no issue she takes the whole of the personal estate, while the real estate, subject to her dower, goes first to her husband's father and then to his mother, brothers and sisters.
Even the Virgin Mary, though she is styled Mother of God and Queen of Heaven, receives only dulia or at most hyperdulia.
The loss of his patrimony, however, thanks no doubt to his mother's providence, did not prevent Propertius from receiving a superior education.
His mother was Ida d'Ardenne, sister of the fourth Godfrey ("the Hunchback"),.
His mother died a few days after giving him birth; his father, Pynaston Hastings, drifted away to perish obscurely in the West Indies.
She bore him two children, of whom one died in infancy at Murshidabad, and was shortly followed to the grave by her mother.
In his case the ancestral hoards were under the control of his mother, the begum of Oudh, into whose hands they had been allowed to pass at the time when Hastings was powerless in council.
Their mother, loving the latter most, avenged his death by murdering her son, and the people, horrified at her act, revolted and murdered both her and King Gorboduc. This legend was the subject of the earliest regular English tragedy which in 1561 was played before Queen Elizabeth in the Inner Temple hall.
On his marriage in 1823 with Elizabeth, daughter of Dawson Turner of Great Yarmouth, he had become a Christian, and had changed his name to Palgrave, the maiden name of his wife's mother.
After her death he married Eadgyfu (Odgiva), daughter of Edward the Elder, king of the English, who was the mother of Louis IV.
Albany had to blockade Margaret in Stirling Castle before she would surrender her sons, After being obliged to capitulate, Margaret returned to Edinburgh, and being no longer responsible for the custody of the king she fled to England in September, where a month later she bore to Angus a daughter, Margaret, who afterwards became countess of Lennox, mother of Lord Darnley and grandmother of James I.
Several letters between 1643 and 1649 are addressed to the princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the ejected elector palatine, who lived at The Hague, where her mother maintained the semblance of a royal court.
His father died when he was three, his mother when he was only seven, and he grew up in a brutal and degrading environment where he learnt to hold human life and human dignity in contempt.
His fathers took a prominent part in Athenian politics, and in 479 held high command in the Greek squadron which annihilated the remnants of Xerxes' fleet at Mycale; through his mother, the niece of Cleisthenes, he was connected with the former tyrants of Sicyon and the family of the Alcmaeonidae.
His youth, spent at the Neapolitan court, was far from blameless, and it is not certain that he was married to the mother of his numerous family.
His mother was a native of the place; his father, a Persian from Balkh, filled the post of tax-collector in the neighbouring town of Harmaitin, under Nall II.
There are three declensions, each with a definite and indefinite form; the genitive, dative and ablative are usually represented by a single termination; the vocative is formed by a final o, as memmo from memme, " mother."
Her early years were clouded by the execution of the duc de Montmorency, her mother's only brother, for intriguing against Richelieu in 1631, and that of her mother's cousin the comte de Montmorency-Boutteville for duelling in 1635; but her parents made their peace with Richelieu, and being introduced into society in 1635 she soon became one of the stars of the Hotel Rambouillet, at that time the centre of all that was learned, witty and gay in France.
Alarmed at the attempts made upon his life by his mother, he fled to the mountains and was for many years a hunter.
He trusted no one; he murdered his mother, his sons, the sister whom he had married; to prevent his harem from falling to his enemies he murdered all his concubines, and his most faithful followers were never safe.
In 1563, the year in which his mother died, he matriculated at St Salvator's College, St Andrews.
His mother was a Langhorne, in some way related to the poet and translator of Plutarch.
Never in the history of colonization has a mother country pursued so relentlessly a policy more selfish and short-sighted.
At the end of Heraclius' reign he obtained through his mother's influence the title of Augustus (638), and after his father's death was proclaimed joint emperor with his half-brother Constantine III.
The first was matriarchal, inheritance being reckoned through the mother.
When the time came for him to speak, his mother and the minister were both there to hear him.
One day Benjamin's mother had to go to a neighbor's on some errand.
At first his mother tried to answer all his questions.
Yes, mother, I will read and then I will know.
The mother gave each a tin plate and a wooden spoon, and then helped them all to boiled beans.
My eyes fill with tears now as I think how my mother pressed me close to her, speechless and trembling with delight, taking in every syllable that I spoke, while little Mildred seized my free hand and kissed it and danced, and my father expressed his pride and affection in a big silence.
Mother and teacher and Mrs. Hopkins and Mr. Anagnos and Mr. Rodocanachi and many other friends went to Plymouth to see many old things.
Soon I shall go home to see my mother and my father and my dear good and sweet little sister.
Teacher sends you her kind remembrances, and father and mother also send their regards.
I can almost think I see you with your father and mother and little sister, with all the brightness of the beautiful country about you, and it makes me very glad to know how glad you are.
She understood in a flash and ran downstairs to tell her mother, by means of emphatic signs, that there was some candy in a trunk for her.
I don't think she has any special tenderness for them--I have never seen her caress them; but she dresses and undresses them many times during the day and handles them exactly as she has seen her mother and the nurse handle her baby sister.
She screamed with glee when the little things squealed and squirmed in their efforts to get back to their mother, and spelled, "Baby--eat large."
We go home about dinner-time usually, and Helen is eager to tell her mother everything she has seen.
When she had finished the letter she carried it to her mother and spelled, "Frank letter," and gave it to her brother to take to the post-office.
In conclusion she asked her mother if she should like to see "very high mountain and beautiful cloudcaps."
The mother bird lays her eggs in a nest and keeps them warm until the birdlings are hatched.
She was much pleased with the letter, and after she had asked all the questions she could think of, she took it to her mother, who was sewing in the hall, and read it to her.
A few minutes afterward she felt of her little sister's head and said to her mother, "Mildred's head is small and hard."
Her mother and I cut up several sheets of printed words so that she could arrange them into sentences.
She carried it to her mother, who spelled it to her.
The other day Helen came across the word grandfather in a little story and asked her mother, "Where is grandfather?" meaning her grandfather.
One day, while she was out walking with her mother and Mr. Anagnos, a boy threw a torpedo, which startled Mrs. Keller.
But PERHAPS his mother sent him to a store to buy something for dinner.
Mother went to Huntsville.
This morning Helen was reading for the first time Bryant's poem, "Oh, mother of a mighty race!"
I said to her, "Tell me, when you have read the poem through, who you think the mother is."
She had met with the expression Mother Nature in the course of her reading, and for a long time she was in the habit of ascribing to Mother Nature whatever she felt to be beyond the power of man to accomplish.
She would say, when speaking of the growth of a plant, "Mother Nature sends the sunshine and the rain to make the trees and the grass and the flowers grow."
How does Mother Nature take care of the flowers?
But I cannot imagine who made Mother Nature, can you?
Mrs. Keller writes me that before her illness Helen made signs for everything, and her mother thought this habit the cause of her slowness in learning to speak.
I do not remember what they all were; but I do know that MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER and TEACHER were among them.
Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me.
At length the old hound burst into view with muzzle to the ground, and snapping the air as if possessed, and ran directly to the rock; but, spying the dead fox, she suddenly ceased her hounding as if struck dumb with amazement, and walked round and round him in silence; and one by one her pups arrived, and, like their mother, were sobered into silence by the mystery.
Do you want the carriage? he asked his mother with a smile.
Boris said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking off his cloak.
The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs.
But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people.
However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings toward him whom He may give me for husband.
Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care!
I have written to my poor mother, said the smiling Mademoiselle Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r's.
You may take offense or not but I always stick to mother truth.
Only his mother was not there, he noticed that.
My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother, and Dolokhov pressed Rostov's hand and burst into tears.
Rostov went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate of sons and brothers.
I have an adored, a priceless mother, and two or three friends--you among them--and as for the rest I only care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful.
He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to escape it all, and felt that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does with a mouse.
Alex was doing everything in his power to provide her with all the experiences of a natural mother.
She didn't like putting her mother's old China in the dishwasher.
For starters, I think I got derailed when you said your mother's name was Alexandrine.
She gave him insight into how Katie and her mother felt about the subject.
The driver's name is John – he's the father, and the mother's name is Marie.
He turned to his mother.
Where is Tammy's mother?
Miss Clara chuckled like a mother hen.
He let the child fall into the trunk, slammed it and quickly drove away just as the mother was emerging from the house.
Betsy screamed, It's like if The Lord Jesus was standing here, writing a mother's day card to the Virgin Mary, you'd be sitting around on your asses discussing if it was really the month of May!
Young Timothy Burton was reunited with his mother shortly after ten PM this evening.
He so busied himself with his silly telephone trick to call away the mother he didn't notice someone who must have been watching.
We lost his mother to cancer at an early age and his father is in jail, convicted of fraud.
When they questioned the mother of kidnap victim, she was fine, until she learned Youngblood was murdered.
While he yearned to return to New Hampshire I sensed he possessed a strong guilt, locking him to his mother's bedside.
Betsy and I moved away to give mother and daughter space.
Howie's mother took a turn for the worse and he'd been advised she wouldn't make it.
She was ready to hang up but I added the sad news Howie's mother, her aunt Rose, wasn't expected to live.
There goes our chance to play mother.
My wife proceeded to say how sorry we were about his mother's death.
I know the clerk down at Starbuck's more than I know my own mother.
Owner's mother died... in California.
His mother was very ill and she recently passed away.
She is a mother to the beautiful young girl I saw walking the family dog.
She was a sweet girl and I'd truly miss her when she returned to her mother, and presumably her stepfather.
Two are in California with the ill mother of the one named Howard.
Why was he faking having a mother and child with him?
Both of them, mother and daughter, out walking that bitch dog.
Betsy agreed but suggested we wait until Molly finished her bath so she could speak with her mother first.
You're as safe with the Reverend as with your own mother if that's what you're worried about.
The mother, Rosie, she was the one that set the cops on me.
He was an outcast, especially by his mother, though she wouldn't admit it.
After a solid hour of the child crying, I wondered if the mother read about the abandoned child, perhaps with a fleeting hint of sympathy.
You could lie and tell him Humphries said it wasn't really his fault and his mother was just upset at losing a daughter.
He lived with his mother here in Santa Barbara until he was arrested and sent away.
It's out of character if this mother is still alive.
Her mother moved to her side, as close as her single restraint allowed.
I told her when I returned from my preparations in the cabin I'd better find my little angle quiet or she could watch her mother die before her eyes.
If so, he'd know Julie was Molly's mother.
He'd been moving steadily downhill since before he traveled west to his mother's final days and had not improved since her passing.
I hummed a tune I remembered my mother singing to me as I strolled to the barn to slay the lying witch-bitch who thought she'd tricked.
Real estate records were scoured for any known relative of the now deceased murderer in an attempt to locate family owned property, a difficult chore as mother Grasso wedded three men and lived with countless others.
Her stepmother-- Jonny's mother-- had said as much.
Her mother and father had tried for years and finally had been successful.
Thinking back, it seemed her mother always had a cup of coffee close by.
That's what Alex says, but I don't want to adopt a baby and then have the mother change her mind after we've learned to love it.
Would you mind if I used mother's dishes?
I'd feel honored if you brought your mother's dishes here and used them instead of these.
I don't think I could stand it if the mother changed her mind.
But then, she wasn't their mother, so maybe it didn't matter.
Carmen said she was afraid of adopting because the mother could take the child back after they learned to love it.
As the days passed, the little filly grew stronger and they finally released her in the pasture with her mother and sisters.
She had inherited violet eyes from her mother, but what if the baby had blue eyes like Dad?
And then she remembered something her mother had said.
And this little boy — would he happen to have a mother and father?
Everybody has a mother and father.
His mother died and his father doesn't want to be troubled with a handicapped child.
She will learn to love you and think of you as her mother.
Some said that babies recognized their mother's voice when they were first born because they had listened to them in the womb.
Maybe having one mother leave and not come back ... no, surely they couldn't reason that early in life.
His own father hadn't mated with his mother for ten years, until after Darian's birth.
The mortal world is no place for a mother of a small child, her father said.
This is the way to get there, she said, turning to her mother.
If he hadn't saved that nobleman's child years ago, you'd have been sold on the auction block, her mother said.
Mother, the apothecary is a good idea.
Her mother and father-in-law sat in front of the crushed structure, hunched over while their sobs reaching her ears.
Jenn glimpsed the black curls of her daughter's head as her mother tried to push her away.
Her mother made it to her feet and flung something at her.
Horrified, Jenn's mother dropped to her knees, sobbing.
Servants—which her father and mother had been—were listed on the House of their immortal lords.
Beside it was the name of their Oracle mother, Kinila, who had gone crazy soon after Damian's birth.
He didn't know if she still yearned for her husband during a time when marriages among servants were arranged, but there was nothing that could soothe the ache a mother felt at losing her child.
A full day will make you powerful and probably, a mother.
His mother was my sister.
Her father farmed 80 acres and her mother worked hard.
Carmen was one of the most selfless people he had ever met – probably much like her mother.
Maybe he had learned it from his mother, or maybe he had inherited the tendency.
She simply wore what her mother sewed for her.
Alex had endured a lot of embarrassment because of the relationship between his mother and biological father – and now this.
My mother insisted I go to dance school.
Her father had been the final authority, but never had she questioned her mother's authority.
Your mother said no, didn't she?
Two lambs followed their mother as the ewe leaped from one ledge to another.
This was where they had discovered the mother bear that Alex had to kill.
She worked hard at taking care of her husband and children, yet how often had someone told her she was a good wife and mother - or even a nice person?
She laid the phone on the tombstone and knelt beside her mother's grave, closing her eyes.
Before Katie started teaching her how to be a modern wife and mother, what were her expectations?
Maybe her mother hadn't either.
How did she know how her mother felt?
Do you think he was ashamed of my mother?
Do you think Alondra will make a good mother?
Sometimes a woman has to be both mother and father.
He hadn't realized how important a mother could be in a grown man's life until she died last year.
She put the last candle in the cake and glanced up at her mother's startled face.
Outside of my sister and mother, you're the only woman who has ever heard me say those words.
The hallway was so charged with emotional electricity that even the young mother noticed.
He reached the hovel he shared with his mother beyond the edge of the city, where all those who lived in poverty were similarly exiled.
His mother – who had been sick for weeks – was not alone in their home.
Xander's surprise turned to concern for his mother.
Xander crossed to his mother and knelt, wary of the stranger.
His mother spoke of a rich woman often, one who sent her on errands when his mother was not wanted at the whorehouse where she made what living was afforded a poor woman beyond the marriage age.
His mother was so pale, like the bodies of the dead he saw tossed in the channel at the other edge of town.
Son, your mother is nearly gone.
Xander's eyes were glued to his mother.
The two times in his life he recalled people seeing his eyes – which glowed like the red gem at his mother's throat – were not pleasant.
He was beaten once, at the age of seven, and the second time, his mother was.
Xander held his mother's hand and lifted his gaze.
It was not a warm smile, like Xander's mother gave him, but a kind of smile that left Xander scared, without knowing why.
He forced himself out of his senses and draped the cloak over his mother.
His attention shifted to his mother, whose breathing was shallow enough, he barely heard it with his super sensitive hearing.
Xander stroked the cloak draped over his mother's arm.
He even tried to eat real food, like his mother and everyone else around him did.
He looked again at his mother.
Your mother told me.
There had never been a world without his mother.
Most people saved that look for his mother while casting uncertain or suspicious looks at the masked child who followed her dutifully through the city.
If your mother has passed, will you consider joining me?
Xander stared after her then crept closer to his mother.
Xander touched the soft skin of his mother's face.
When he finished carefully feeding it to her, he curled up beside his mother under the heavenly cloak.
His mother's body was as cold as the extinguished fire.
He felt nothing, seated beside his dead mother, except the prick of anger.
He couldn't control the surge of adrenaline he experienced whenever he thought of sinking his teeth into his father's neck and draining his life from him, the way his father drained his mother's life.
He draped it over his mother's body.
His mother never held a grudge against his father, and suddenly, Xander didn't understand why not.
The image of his mother lying serenely in the grave he made her was engraved in his mind.
There was nothing that would stop him from punishing the man who left his mother to die alone.
It was where he was birthed and spent only a few weeks before his mother was cast out.
Their armies thought they were mother and son, and she stopped denying Xander was anything else.
Inside was the red gem, Xander's only belonging, that he'd kept once his mother died.
She was one; the memory of his real mother the second.
Animals didn't protect a necklace belonging to their mother or insist their adopted-mother stay where it was safe.
The gem can be destroyed to release its magic, but by doing so, you lose all that remains of your mother and me.
Jessi was reminded of the last time she saw the mother of the cousins, a day before her death.
The similarities between the girl's appearance and the memory of her deceased mother made Jessi nauseous.
Eden had been more than a friend, assuming the role of Xander's mother when his died.
You're the product of a single mother, probably raised in near-poverty, based on your simple tastes.
Whatever your father did to you and your mother, it was probably bad.
She sensed some deep sadness when he mentioned his mother.
My mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant.
My father disowned me and cast out my mother and me.
Because of his mother, she knew now.
She didn't want to imagine a ten year old living in the slums, knowing his mother was reduced to prostitution to keep them alive.
He was largely immune to the world, but he had some depth of emotion, if he respected his mother's memory by not killing women.
We were at the bedside of my mother, and she was dying.
I was too young to understand why she sought out my mother and me.
The night my mother died, Eden gave me advice I've never forgotten.
She offered to take my mother and me in at one point, but my mother refused.
Eden told me my mother's love for me was greater than her fear of the consequences of living in the streets, Xander said.
It was my mother's.
Louis, who was the eldest of four children, received from his mother a strict religious training.
After the death of the tsaritsa Natalia, Peter's mother, in 1694, his influence increased still further.
His mother, Agnes Pincheon, is said to have been of gentle birth.
His mother was Marytje, daughter of Jan de Gorter, of a good family in Delft.
His mother, in 1537, suffered martyrdom as an Anabaptist.
Her father was Maurice Dupin, a retired lieutenant in the army of the republic; her mother, Sophie Delaborde, the daughter of a Paris bird-fancier.
On his death the mother resigned, though not without a struggle, the care of Aurore to her grandmother, Mme.
She was jealous as a lover of the child's affection, and the struggle between the mother and grandmother was one of the bitterest of Aurore's childish troubles.
They reveal to us the true and better side of George Sand, the loyal and devoted friend, the mother who under happier conditions might have been reputed a Roman matron.
To explain this we must open a new chapter of the life in which George Sand appears as the devoted mother.
Solange, who inherited all her mother's wild blood with none of her genius, on the eve of a marriage that had been arranged with a Berrichon gentleman, ran away with Clesinger, a sculptor to whom she had sat for her bust.
He upbraided the mother with her hardheartedness, and when she resented his interference he departed in a huff and they never met again.
An accredited team of bowlers from the mother country visited Canada in 1906, and was accorded a royal welcome.
Prince Alexander, who was born on the 5th of April 1857, was nephew of the tsar Alexander II., who had married a sister of Prince Alexander of Hesse; his mother, a daughter of Count Moritz von Hauke, had been lady-in-waiting to the tsaritsa.
Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island.
When Henry Smith was just two years old his father died, whereupon his mother left Ireland for England.
After being privately educated by his mother and tutors, he entered Rugby school in 1841.
Under the latter prince the country prospered greatly, and having introduced the principle of primogeniture, he died and was succeeded by his infant son, Bernard Ernest Freund (1800-1882), whose mother, Eleanora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, governed in his name until 1821.
His father, Mathieu de Lesseps (1774-1832), was in the consular service; hi$ mother, Catherine de Grivegnee, was Spanish, and aunt of the countess of Montijo, mother of the empress Eugenie.
In 1839 he was appointed consul at Rotterdam, and in the following year transferred to Malaga, the place of origin of his mother's family.
In the following year, by the death, of Ferdinand of Aragon, his maternal grandfather, and the incapacity of his mother Joanna, who had become hopelessly insane, he succeeded to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, which carried with them large possessions in Italy and the dominion, of the New World of America.
At last Philip unwillingly gave way, and he secretly suggested to the cardinal that he should ask permission from the regent to visit his mother at Besancon.
The trouble was soon complicated by the conflict with the mother country.
His mother was descended from a family named Styward in Norfolk, which was not, however, connected in any way, as has been often asserted, with the royal house of Stuart.
Only ten of them have any appreciable size, and these are named - commencing from the north - Muko-shima (Bridegroom Island), Nakadachi-shima (Go-between Island 1), Yome-shima (Bride Island), Ototo-jima (Younger-brother Island), Ani-shima (Elderbrother Island), Chichi-jima (Father Island), Haha-jima (Mother Island), Mei-jima (Niece Island), Ani-jima (Elder-sister Island) and Imoto-jima (Younger-sister Island).
His grandfather was a small farmer in county Kildare, and his mother was the daughter of a captain in the merchant service.
He had made special inquiries of the authorities of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart museums, and published questions in the newspapers, but no evidence has reached him that the eggs of Ornithorhyncus have ever been obtained except by the dissection of the mother.
St Francis, the first child of this union, was born in August 1567 when his mother was in her fifteenth year.
The worm inhabits the lung of the frog and toad, and is hermaphrodite (Schneider) or parthenogenetic (Leuckart); the embryos hatched from the eggs find their way through the lungs into the alimentary canal and thence to the exterior; in a few days they develop into a sexual larva, called a Rhabditiform larva, in which the sexes are distinct; the eggs remain within the uterus, and the young when hatched break through its walls and live free in the perivisceral cavity of the mother, devouring the organs of the body until only the outer cuticle is left; this eventually breaks and sets free the young, which are without teeth, and have therefore lost the typical Rhabditis form.
The eggs of the female give rise to embryos within the body of the mother; her other organs undergo a retrogressive change and serve as food for the young, until the body-wall only of the mother remains as a brown capsule.
They made Milan their home; and the empire was nominally divided between them, Gratian taking the trans-Alpine provinces, whilst Italy, Illyricum in part, and Africa were to be under the rule of Valentinian, or rather of his mother, Justina.
The emperor and his mother fled to Theodosius, the emperor of the East and husband of Galla, Valentinian's sister.
Although married she always remained a member of her father's house - she is rarely named wife of A, usually daughter of B, or mother of C. Divorce was optional with the man, but he had to restore the dowry and, if the wife had borne him children, she had the custody of them.
These children were free, in any case, and their mother could not be sold, though she might be pledged, and she was free on her master's death.
Adoption was very common, especially where the father (or mother) was childless or had seen all his children grow up and marry away.
Children also shared their own mother's property, but had no share in that of a stepmother.
In early times the son who denied his father had his front hair shorn, a slave-mark put on him, and could be sold as a slave; while if he denied his mother he had his front hair shorn, was driven round the city as an example and expelled his home, but not degraded to slavery.
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.
A sort of symbolic retaliation was the punishment of the offending member, seen in the cutting off the hand that struck a father or stole a trust; in cutting off the breast of a wet-nurse who substituted a changeling for the child entrusted to her; in the loss of the tongue that denied father or mother (in the Elamite contracts the same penalty was inflicted for perjury); in the loss of the eye that pried into forbidden secrets.
Fouillee's wife, who by a previous marriage was the mother of the poet and philosopher Jean Marie Guyau (1854-1888), is well known, under the pseudonym of "G.
Mary Thy Mother stopped at the foot of the Cross, but poverty mounted it with Thee and clasped Thee in her embrace unto the end; and when Thou wast dying of thirst, as a watchful spouse she prepared for Thee the gall.
The boy's mother was of Huguenot descent.
Their elder son, George William Frederick (1775-1838), succeeded his father as duke of Leeds and his mother as Baron Conyers.
At the age of fourteen he was sent by his mother, who had in 1501 become a widow, to Cambridge.
Cranmer went with two of his pupils named Cressy, related to him through their mother, to their father's house at Waltham in Essex.
Any chance of safety that lay in the friendliness of a strong party in the council was more than nullified by the bitter personal enmity of the queen, who could not forgive his share in her mother's divorce and her own disgrace.
A strong opposition was quickly aroused, and when Theophano and Adelaide, widow of the emperor Otto the Great, appeared in Germany, Henry was compelled to hand over the young king to his mother.
His worship was closely connected with that of the great mother Cybele and of Attis.
Her father (the Congregational minister of the town) and her mother were both descended from members of the company that, under John Davenport, founded New Haven in 1638; and the community in which she spent her childhood was one of the most intellectual in New England.
His mother Domitia Calvilla (or Lucilla) was a lady of consular rank, and the family of his father Annius Verus (prefect of the city and thrice consul), originally Spanish, had received patrician rank from Vespasian.
The moral training which he received from his grandfather and his mother must have been all but perfect.
I Capitolinus states that he was originally called Catilius Severus after his mother's grandfather; if so the name was early discarded.
They usually took as a present for their mother a small cake known as a simnel.
A beautiful house of the 16th century belonged to one Thomas Rogers, whose daughter was mother of John Harvard, the founder of Harvard College, U.S.A. Among public buildings are the town hall, originally dated 1633, rebuilt 1767, and altered 186 3; market house, corn exchange and three hospitals.
The maiden name of the poet's mother was Mary Arden, and this name, that of an ancient county family, survives in the district north-west of Stratford, the Forest of Arden, though the true forest character is long lost.
In the vascular cryptogams and phanerogams it takes place in the spore mother cells and the reduced number is found in all the cells of the gametophyte, the full number in those of the sporophyte.
The two divisions of the spore mother cell in which the reduction takes place, follow each other very rapidly and are known as Heterotype and Homotype (Flemming), or according to the terminology of Farmer and Moore (1905) as the meiotic phase.
He was a younger son, although he had some of his mother's inheritance.
By the death of this little girl, John Howard became one of the coheirs of her illustrious house, which was now represented by the issue of Margaret Mowbray, his mother, and of her sister Isabel, who had married James, Lord Berkeley.
To the grief of his mother he left the Roman church.
After the death of his mother in 1463, and of her principal supporter, James Kennedy, bishop of St Andrews, two years later, the person of the young king, and with it the chief authority in the kingdom, were seized by Sir Alexander Boyd and his brother Lord Boyd, while the latter's son, Thomas, was created earl of Arran and married to the king's sister, Mary.
He was found by Pharaoh's daughter, and his (step-)sister Miriam contrived that he should be nursed by his mother; on growing up he killed an Egyptian who was oppressing an Israelite, and this becoming, known, he sought refuge in flight.
His father died suddenly of spasm in the heart in 1801, and his early education was confided by his mother to her sister, Miss Delafield.
His father was an Irishman and his mother of Scotch-Irish and Huguenot descent.
He wore on his breast a badge with his title of "Pere," was spoken of by his preachers as "the living law," declared, and probably believed, himself to be the chosen of God, and sent out emissaries in a quest of a woman predestined to be the "female Messiah," and the mother of a new Saviour.
Hexathionic acid, H 2 S 6 0 6, is probably present in the mother liquors from which potassium pentathionate is prepared.
His mother was carried off by Zeus to the island of Oenone, which was afterwards called by her name.
For example, the grub of a pea or bean beetle (Bruchus) is hatched, from the egg laid by its mother on the carpel of a leguminous flower, with three pairs of legs and spiny processes on the prothorax.
He came of a good family; his father was in the commission of the peace and his mother was a sister of Sir John Popham, successively attorney-general and lord chief justice.
With Thomas Dekker he wrote The Fairy Knight and The Bristowe Merchant (licensed in 1624, but both unpublished), with John Webster A late Murther of the Sonne upon the Mother (licensed in 1624).
Suslov selected a " mother of God " and twelve apostles.
It had to be divided, therefore, into a number of independent principalities, but it continued to be loosely held together by the dynastic sentiment of the descendants of Rurik and by the patriarchal authority - a sort of patria potestas - of the senior member of the family, called the grand-prince, who ruled in Kiev, " the mother of Russian cities."
During Ivan's minority the country was governed, or rather misgoverned, first by his mother, and then by rival factions led by great nobles such as the princes Shuiski and Belski.
Francisco de Valenzuela having died young, his son was placed by his mother as a page in the household of the duke of Infantado.
He was born at his mother's castle of Xavier or Xavero, at the foot of the Pyrenees and close to the little town of Sanguesa, on the 7th of April 1506, according to a family register, though his earlier biographers fix his birth in 1497.
His mother took him to Surat, where he was educated in a mission school, but he never succeeded in gaining an academical degree.
His mother, Judith Porten, was the daughter of a London merchant.
The " true mother of his mind as well as of his health " was a maiden aunt - Catherine Porten by name - with respect to whom he expresses himself in language of the most grateful remembrance.
In December 1747 his mother died, and he was taken home.
Some scholars, identifying Iasion with Jason, regard Thessaly as the original home of the legend, and the union with Demeter as the iEpen 'yaµos of mother earth with a health god.
Kuhn, is the etymological equivalent of the Sanskrit Saranyu, who, having turned herself into a mare, is pursued by Vivasvat, and becomes the mother of the two Asvins, the Indian Dioscuri, the Indian and Greek myths being regarded as identical.
When her father, on discovering that Iocaste, the mother of his children, was also his own mother, put his eyes out and resigned the throne of Thebes, she accompanied him into exile at Colonus.
His mother was one of a family named Winston, of Welsh descent, noted for conversational and musical talent.
By her first husband she was the mother of Marcus Marcellus (q.v.), who died in 23 B.C. (2) Octavia, daughter of the emperor Claudius, was the wife of Nero, by whom she was put to death.
Of this monarch, known as Murkertagh MacNeill (Niall), and sometimes by reference to his mother as Murkertagh Mac Erca, the story is told, illustrating an ancient Celtic custom, that in making a league with a tribe in Meath he emphasized the inviolability of the treaty by having it written with the blood of both clans mixed in one vessel.
Conn, who was related through his mother with the earl of Kildare (Fitzgerald), became chief of the Tyrone branch of the O'Neills (Cinel Eoghain) about 1520.
Being thus composed, he is neither able to eat flesh like his father, nor herbs like his mother; therefore he perisheth from inanition"; the moral follows.
In these forms the pregnant female, instead of laying eggs, as Diptera usually do, or even producing a number of minute living larvae, gives birth at one time but to a single larva, which is retained within the oviduct of the mother until adult, and assumes the pupal state immediately on extrusion.
His young son Jehoiachin surrendered after a three months' reign, with his mother and the court; they were taken away to Babylonia, together with a number of the artisan class (596).
Its citizens appealed to Ptolemy Lathyrus, who had been driven from the throne of Egypt by his mother Cleopatra and was reigning in Cyprus.
It is unnecessary to remark that in the British colonies the Jews everywhere enjoy full citizenship. In fact, the colonies emancipated the Jews earlier than did the mother country.
On account of the prejudices of her mother, who did not desire her to know more than was necessary for being useful in the family, she received in youth only the first elements of education.
After the death of her father in 1767 she obtained permission to learn millinery and dressmaking with a view to earning her bread, but continued to assist her mother in the management of the household until the autumn of 1772, when she joined her brother William, who had established himself as a teacher of music at Bath.