How To Use Mother In A Sentence
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There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
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Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.
Gravity's Rainbow
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Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.
Chapter 1
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All the while their mother snorted, shuffled about a bit and then went back to sleep.
The Sun
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His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
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Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
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And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon!
Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
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Or did her pushy mother and absent father turn her life into a sordid soap opera?
Times, Sunday Times
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The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency.
We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
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The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
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Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.
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Another category of vessels and flatware was distinguished by the use of precious stones or exotic materials, such as coral, mother-of-pearl, or coconut shell.
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Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
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Evelyn answered, crossing her arms across her chest, as if daring her mother to challenge her.
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Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
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Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it.
The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
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I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
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He is always telling the director how to run the business; that's like teaching one's grandmother how to suck eggs.
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Bachofen was the first to discuss under the name of gyneocracy and mother-right.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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Owner Jane Organ said it was tragic for the pup to be taken from its mother at such a young age.
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I have NEVER heared my children call me mother EVER!
Why I’m PROUD to call myself a Mommy! « Bored Mommy
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From the father comes honour; from the mother, comfort.
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In her new role she will help to develop the midwives' public health role, with increased support for breastfeeding and encouraging mothers-to-be to stop smoking.
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My mother's from Paris, so it's kind of ironic because when they gave him the word noisette, we heard later that the ESPN guy said, "Oh, his mother speaks French, he should know this.
Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition
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Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mother brought me a box of chocolates.
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The deep grief and guilt of the mother as well as the hatred and home-sickness of the daughter permeate the story and eventually melt away due to the abiding family love.
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I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
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You have devoured all when you were standing godmother.
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The story of the guilt-ridden woman who knows she can never be a good enough mother is beautifully judged in its mixture of comedy and depression.
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Thompson claimed that his grandmother, who lived in Blyth, Northumberland, was a pagan high priestess, and that she had passed on her powers to him.
Sex cult leader jailed for forcing girlfriend into sex with others
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He remembers his mother convulsed with laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, "My mother said I could be no lad, till I was twentye, '* is a passage I notice in my Milton with a view to this; which see; and therein also of a shep - herdess" taking the tale.
The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ...
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That's bushwa, this mirror and its brother mirror were created for my mother.
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No, you plockit, no; and I will write your mother word you have proke Priscian's head four times this tay, since her letter came.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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The water seal technology is used to solve the problem of the collection rate of the mother liquid in situ leach mining of the rare earth mineral.
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Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press A displaced child, whose family fled from the Khyber tribal region due to military operations, held onto her mother while waiting to register at the Jalozai camp on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday.
Asia in Pictures
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In Burns, the mother had full custody of two children and the parents shared custody of a third child.
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She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
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At home in Harrogate, Leon's mother watched as news of the disaster broke, knowing of her son's plan to dive on Boxing Day.
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From the rearmost area of the building, my mother stepped into the hallway.
Arcane Circle
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They charged down the stairs to meet their grandmother.
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His mother gave Paul a hug for being a big help.
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Father eventually married her and she became my step-mother.
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I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then).
Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
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His father was a hairdresser and beautician, his mother an astrologer and former dancer who also acted as a promoter for women's wrestling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.
Jamaica Information Service
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Your mother's will most likely transfers property to the revocable trust, rather than the other way around, in case she failed to transfer something to the trust prior to her death.
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A woman responding to a survey about the experience of illegitimates in 1986 said that her mother ‘was put in an orphanage and did not get full knowledge about her parents until she was 55.’
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It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Iëna then went in advance, and sought the open plain, whereupon the child resembling the mother would cry out and complain, because she disliked an _open_ path.
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
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Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight.
Virginia: the Old Dominion
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The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported.
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Obj. 2: Further, filiation, which is said of a man as being the son of someone, his father or his mother, depends, in a way, on him: because the very being of a relation consists _in being referred to another; _ wherefore if one of two relatives be destroyed, the other is destroyed also.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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Her mother's opinions on how babies should be cared for were freely given and duly ignored.
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MAN-agement is the one lesson your mother never taught you.
Matt Titus: MANagement
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His mother's liniment was prime stuff, and allowed him to move the limb often enough to keep the kinks worked out.
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I said, " Oh, dear godmother, tell me, pray do tell me, did mama die on my birthday?
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Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III.
The Rise Of an Empress
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A mother has hit out at heartless thieves who stole her son's memorial from a lamp-post.
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Sharing the tiny apartment were one of his grandmothers and a spinster aunt.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1934 he moved to Vancouver with his mother and stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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These connect from the motherboard to the front panel on the top corner of the case.
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Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg,
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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A touching painting was the one depicting motherhood made in canvas by K. Kumaran.
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She said: 'I felt very safe in my little bubble of motherhood and domesticity.
The Sun
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My mother told me about a dream she had before the sleeping stopped.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fracas, that mother of all big floral scents, the strange, kinky Diva Tubereuse Criminelle, and the lustrously beautiful Carnal Flower.
Archive 2007-07-01
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With two children bedridden the mother was ill at ease.
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Git yo 'motherfuckin' ass some help before somebody beats you down like a bad dawg.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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I personally beg all mothers to insist that their governments work towards this end.
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I was about to dismiss this as a sort of think-tanky special interest political advocacy group, but then I remembered that mothers are good.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt
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The relationship with her mother, Zippora, née Assur, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family, who had never attended school, became more and more difficult.
Fanny Lewald.
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But, just in case you get the idea that all was pretence and subterfuge, I feel I should let you know just how the mother of a friend of mine described the communist years.
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Many of the major characters are historical figures, notably Llewellyn and David, their mother Lady Senena and their two other brothers Owen Goch “Owen the Red” and Rhodri, and King Henry III of England.
Sunrise in the West, by Edith Pargeter. Book review
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Zeena, also enraged, tells him that she became sick from nursing his ill mother.
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Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati.
The War of the Wenuses
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This can lead to reduced coral growth, inability to recover from hazards like cyclones, smothering of coral by sediment, fish poisoning and unusually high growth rates for organisms that overgrow coral or support its rivals.
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She decided to search for her biological mother after her adoptive parents died.
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Until the middle of September an exhibit titled Eros showcases Cupid and his mother Aphrodite or Venus.
2007 April 13 archive at eternallycool.net
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The whole time, I was thinking about the recipe for curried chicken that my mother taught me.
THE BROKEN GOD
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She was, of course, my sister, and I loved her, but I had never mothered her the way I had doted on Henry or - most of all - Maggie.
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Dey allowed de patterollers to snoop around an 'whup de slaves, mother said dey stripped some of de slaves naked an' whupped 'em.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
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I don't need their future stepmother telling me that they are excited about my wedding.
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Newborns 'levels of an enzyme called paraoxonase 1 (PON1), critical to the detoxification of organophosphate pesticides, average one-third or less than those of the babies' mothers.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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Leopards are not the only mammals in which daughters live close to their mothers.
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Marriage certificates will be changed so that they include the occupations of the bride and groom's mothers, plus details of step-parents if applicable.
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Eadie said just before 2 pm, as she was about to prepare a late lunch, she looked out the back door and called out to her mother, pensioner Millie, only to see the gushes of water and slush cascading from the neighbour's yard.
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To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me.
1997: What I Wanted
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The mother of the chillun was a good lady an 'she let me look on the books when she read to them an' larned me the lessons 'long with her chillun.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
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Mothers dropped off their young sons for the first term with a perfunctory peck on the cheek.
Times, Sunday Times
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There had even been, the nurses told Anastasia's mother, a terrible collision involving a bedpan.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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The girl began to whine and her mother was losing her patience.
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She tenderly cares for her bedridden mother (euthanasia not being next on her agenda).
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I have a wife, a son, a sister, a sister-in-law, three brothers-in-law, a mother, a father-in-law, a nephew, and a niece.
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During morning prayers, Ifemelu's mother commanded God to bless the General, "Father Lord, bless Uju's mentor," she would say, the word "mentor" pushed out of her mouth like a challenge.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
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When such water evaporates, it becomes concentrated, along with the magnesium and potassium salts, in the "mother liquor"; and upon complete evaporation, it crystallizes out as boracite and other rarer minerals.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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The nurse said my mother had rallied after a poor night.
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Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.
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Your first book was actually a theological exploration of the meaning of motherhood.
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‘Walter's wife, Cathy, is the godmother to my second son,’ Andy says in his embracing voice.
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The photosynthetic technique for transferring energy from one molecular system to another should make any short-list of Mother Nature's spectacular accomplishments.
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When routine testing at 20 weeks showed that Southampton, PA mother-to-be Andrea Malloy's alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were high, the news was not good.
Gastroschisis — Malloy
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Her mother Mandy, 38, has now urged all parents to have their children vaccinated with the MMR jab, which protects children against measles, mumps and rubella.
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Yes, he disowns his mother and his wife attempted suicide as a result of being publicly slandered by him, but we also know how much he cares about his daughter.
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Many say a sense of sisterhood motivates them to protect other mothers from the fear and pain they have faced.
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I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa
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Thes. 2:7 But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children.
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Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother, -- [Mother or mauther, a wench.] -- that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all the morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
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A mottled seal mother flops onto her fat belly, (What in the name...?
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Overseas aidJohn Arne Riise, or "mummy's boy", finally joined this summer having been utterly unwooed by the club's fluttering eyelashes before he signed for Liverpool in 2001, supposedly on the advice of his representative – his mother.
Fulham Premier League 2011-12 team guide
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The happy event occurred in the Taylor's aviary in Wakefield, after the mother - a kakariki called Cheeky - and father Tom, a golden mantel rosella, were reared together from chicks.
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I'm the sole victim of Mother's tyranny.
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Grandmother displayed all the warmth, enthusiasm, and flamboyance that she had loved so dearly in her brother Theodore.
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My mother used to do the cleaning of the upper rooms in our house wearing a hat and coat.
Times, Sunday Times
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This ring has been passed on in my family from mother to daughter.
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Typically, this part of the film is edited so unemphatically that it appears to place equal emphasis on the little boy's bed-wetting and the death of his mother.
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Delia's stepmother is dealing with strange perplexities of her own.
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Viewing it from all angles the point is, it is discriminative criteria to reject siblings of non Jewish mothers on the logical basis that no female line could possibly hereditarily claim pure Jewish roots going back five thousand years.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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When her great-Aunt (an Evil Stepmother) dies, Estelle is under suspicion by the authorities and hopes to be cleared by a member of the Static Society.
REVIEW: Extraordinary Engines edited by Nick Gevers
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Hiring Teenagers:For many mothers, the very word baby-sitter means hiring a teenager.
Mothering Twins
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But the sheer exhilaration of combat had carried him 80 miles from the haven of the mother ship.
Times, Sunday Times
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No one knows why a foetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system.
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My mother was upset about his appearance here, not least because she felt it was invading her privacy.
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A general rule of thumb is that the mother should gain 25 to 35 pounds, the weight of a full-term singleton pregnancy, by the end of the second trimester—and then gain an additional 15 to 25 pounds in the last trimester.
Mothering Twins
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Detmar is the sort of chap who would once have been described as a milksop; when Issie met him in 1988 he was 25, but so close to his mother he used to shop for her sanitary towels.
Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow
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Remember when your mother said that being warm was more important than looking fashionable?
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Is there any other kind of test we can do to determine if the motherboard is non-functional (which seems rather likely at this point)?
Help me, livejournal wan kenobi!
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Tayrah took a deep breath and smothered the anger she felt approaching and then quickly changed the subject.
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He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
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A TEN-year-old schoolgirl yesterday told a hushed court how she had seen the man accused of murdering and dismembering another man beat her mother.
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Mother turtles burrow into the sand to lay their eggs.
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One day she would be the shining example of a loving wife and mother.
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I stood at the sliding doors of Crosshouse Hospital, my arm around my grandmother.
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Looking after her dying mother had sapped all her energy.
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A helicopter airlifted him back to his mother.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was an overcast day, the light hidden behind grey clouds that smothered the sky and threatened to rain.
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They also have a gift shop with lots of presents suitable for Mum on Mother's Day.
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My mother has inherited the photographs of her oldest friend who died aged 93 without any blood kin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, contributed much to the eloquence of her sons; and her learned stile is handed down to posterity in her letters.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage.
Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
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This central, multistory void separates distinct living spaces for the two owners, a mother and son.
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The tumbledown exterior walls were smothered with moss and ivy, and many of the original features, including fragments from the first-floor medieval loo - known as the garderobe - were strewn around the overgrown garden.
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While she waited on the step May thought about Maurice's mother looking at Southport's slug-like sea with mean, jaundiced eyes.
PROSPECT HILL
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Shannon sat on her mother's lap.
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The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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My mother has never paid a bill, written a cheque or drawn money from the bank in her life.
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He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
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I am [3] the daughter of Menœceus, and Creon my brother was born of the same mother; me they call Jocasta (for this name [4] my father gave me), and
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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The governor is enforcing the law, nothing wrong with that. mother in pa
Steele talks immigration policy in meeting with Hispanic activists
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He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches.
Almayer's Folly
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My own mother said romantically that I was to expect you to feel like "catching a butterfly in my hand."
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She burst into tears and said she hadn't spoken to her mother for three years.
The Sun
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The GOP consultant who designed the ad gleefully called the mugshot “every suburban mother’s greatest fear.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Perils of High Public Office
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There he showed her the burial plot that he and my grandmother had selected as their final resting place.
Times, Sunday Times
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On balance, her ample stomach seems to suggest more impending motherhood than lax calorie control.
Times, Sunday Times
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That Malkin b! tch is a mother (* shudder*) and she ought to know better.
Think Progress » Thiessen’s Inconsistency Undermines Claim That Detainee Lawyers Can’t Be Compared To John Adams
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The hen with her brood is an accepted model of motherhood in this respect.
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
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No, you really ought to stay in bed; remember, Mother knows best!
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My mother is a professional hypnotherapist who trains other hypnotherapists.
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Elizabeth - You're not he first to mention grandmothers ... perhaps the notion of using mayo in cakes is not new?
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
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The fact that the cubs were orphans, abandoned when their mother was run over by a car, was of no account.
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A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter.
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Like many African families, these Creole families are matrifocal, centering on the mother's lineage, with strong traditions of women working outside of the home.
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And he flatters the mother and she kind of gets prissy and he talks her into going for a ride in the sports car.
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John's mother was worried about the company he kept.
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From what you have just told me, your mother has got the idea, that your husband is what is called a complaisant husband.”
Maigret and the Old Lady
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The mother of a teenager killed during an argument about a dog has branded the British justice system a joke after his attacker was jailed for three years.
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The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce.
Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
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The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
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What is left in ‘her’ wake, however, is an acerbically astute representation of a social environment in which mothers are routinely erased, undervalued, and ‘trapped’ within the domestic milieu.
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`Maybe my mother will make me a dress of green velvet," went on the even-tempered Violet.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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At least I still remember how to make my grandmother's infamous "sweetish" meatballs.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
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The immunity to disease passed through the mother's colostrum called ‘maternal immunity’ usually lasts for several weeks in the puppy's system.
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Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment.
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Mira rejected the official history that viewed her mother as a traitor, preferring instead to cast her as a martyr to the partisan cause.
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
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She felt her mother's death very deeply.
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The mother is being held without bail until her arraignment, which is scheduled for tomorrow.
CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006
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These include chemoprophylaxis for patients with latent infection, and strategies for chemotherapy of dually infected individuals.
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Our forefathers and foremothers in 1951 were concerned with the way medical practice relates to changing times, a theme that sounds familiar today.
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He said that the exceptional permission for the unusual ceremony had been granted because his grandmother had herself served as a Wren.
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This is mainly due to the number of multiple births and the age of the mother - IVF mothers are usually older.
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Studies have shown that cot death is more likely to occur if the mother smoked while pregnant.
Times, Sunday Times
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His mother quilted a cotton - padded anorak for him.
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It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother.
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He has a mother completely dependent on him.
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The mother, Chris Hempel, of Reno, Nev., says she wrote in the email that her daughters were being treated with cyclodextrin on an experimental basis.
Surprising New Uses for Older Drugs; HIV Vaccine?
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It just seems as if Mother Earth had become young again, and was tossing her babies up to the summer sky, and the wind played hide-and-seek, or peep-bo, or some other ridiculous game, with them, and made the summer babies as glad and as mischievous as himself.
My War Experiences in Two Continents
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It looks like a mother uncrumpling papers in her son's backpack to find a missing assignment.
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We had no idea that this arcane "mother of all crimes" - ignored since World War II - would ever again seize public attention as it has recently, because of the conduct of John
Fonda
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I would like to digress at this point, to describe another use for allopruinol which materialized about 10 years later, because it typifies the kind of chemotherapeutic selectivity which can be achieved with purine analogs as the result of differences in the specificties of parasitic and mammalian enzymes.
Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy
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The red cloth was then edged with rows of iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons.
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Mother had not heard, or had chosen to overlook her nurse's remark.
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Give the letter to your mother when you've read it.
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In the study, he pulled the drop cloths off the crates holding his books-his and his great-aunt 's and his father's and his mother's.
NEW YORK DEAD
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A youth - accused of rape, housebreaking and theft - burst into tears yesterday when his mother asked the court to keep him in jail for his own safety.
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In _Coriolanus_, Shakespeare makes Volumnia the mother, and Virgilia the wife, of Coriolanus; but his _wife_ was Volumnia, and his _mother_
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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From the sounds downstairs, my mother was trying to recover from last night's hangover and put on a decent dress for her daughters' weddings.
