How To Use Motherly In A Sentence
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She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
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Where were her motherly instincts to love and protect her young daughter?
The Sun
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The painting of Mary carries motherly love
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God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
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Of course, I suppose if the baby is lucky enough to be white, and the mother is motherly enough and/or unmotherly enough to be willing to place it for adoption, it might be adopted.
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She also plays a motherly role to her nieces and nephews, since she considers them her own.
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Is she "lacking in motherly inhibitions and propriety and self-control" [p. 156]?
Runaway by Alice Munro: Questions
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She sat with them for a while, chatting in a friendly and motherly way.
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Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
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The puppy fussed with a sheet wrinkle; Mary straightened his sheets in a motherly fashion.
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She was quiet, simple; in short, motherly, when seen by Cooper the winter of
James Fenimore Cooper
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A warm smile lifted the corners of her mouth and her golden eyes burned of motherly warmth.
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The real motherly tenderness that was in this woman's heart was quickly perceived by the child, who did not move its eyes from hers, but lay perfectly still, gazing up at her in a kind of easeful rest such as it had never before known.
Cast Adrift
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Katrina and Shannon were giggling like little children while Judith acted with motherly affection.
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It was with motherly affection and worry that she mindlessly tucked her daughter in tighter, trying to get the creases out of the sheets and plumping up the pillows.
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Pursuivant, to the Bishop of Albertstown, to the Lord Chancellor, with an exposition of the wicked injustice and hardness of heart of lawyers, and the inexpedience of taking the poor child from her earliest motherly friend, expressly chosen by her father.
Modern Broods
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You just have to treat other people in a grandmotherly or grandfatherly fashion.
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Mae was surprised to see her, but welcoming in her crabby, grandmotherly sort of way all the same.
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Her motherly instincts took over and she tried to save her life.
The Sun
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My children are in the process of acquiring - as did their parents - some of the least utilitarian degrees out there and it would be unmotherly to disown them.
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She was highly protective of him, in an almost motherly way, although she was only three years older than him.
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Though I gained no particular motherly nourishment from my years at the University of Michigan, I for one am pleased that Hugh Hewitt is not among our distinguished undergraduate alumni.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Self-hating Wolverine
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We do turn to each other if we have problems, and I try not to be too motherly with my advice.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are the same anxieties, the same pains and disappointments but those motherly instincts are still there.
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There is a slight nod, a ghostly intangible feeling of her gloved palm against my cheek, and a sensation of motherly warmth.
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There was sensible Toby, forthright Helen, caring Belinda, laddish Ben, ladette Claire, loud-mouthed Luke, motherly Lisa and besotted Justin, who spent the whole time pining for his girlfriend.
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Just as women's motherly character was decoupled from their reproductive role, female love was dissociated from female sexuality.
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This post was written by Robina, at Motherly Loving, and submited for publication here at Catholic Cuisine.
Archive 2009-03-01
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And her motherly demeanor makes it easier for other staff members to seek her advice.
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All this Mrs. Merkel showered on the two "tenderfeet" in a breath, at the same time fairly "shooing" them into the house as a motherly hen might direct her chickens toward the feeding coop.
The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X
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She was a plump mole only a little older than the visitor, but with warm motherly eyes and pleasant grey fur.
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There is a slight nod, a ghostly intangible feeling of her gloved palm against my cheek, and a sensation of motherly warmth.
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In charged Bella Abzug, who former Ms. editor Suzanne Braun Levine noted wasn't "polite" or "motherly" -- and therefore, everyone from the conservatives to the peace activists were wary of.
Jessica Wakeman: On Sexist Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton
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` ` Leave Poll alone; she's in one of her trances! '' called a motherly, good-natured woman whose trunk stood next to Polly's, and whose business was to support a son and three daughters upon stalwart shoulders, both figuratively and literally.
Polly of the Circus
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She was a conscientious mother, but not motherly.
The Glasgow Girls
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I was taken aback by how motherly she was and her genuine concern.
The Sun
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Aunt Alice frowned slightly at this reproach against her motherly duties, but the sorrow in her beautiful eyes could not be from this reproach alone, it was too deep.
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Riz au Lait is the epitome of the French grandmotherly dessert: simple, homely, comforting, sweet and creamy.
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She has that annoying grandmotherly ability to comfort a baby just by entering the room.
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I got her youthful impetuousness, which is classic Lois Lane, and at the same time a motherly sense, a protective sense regarding her child, who plays a significant role in the picture.
Comic Book Movie
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Anna placed a comforting, motherly hand on her shoulder, making her look up.
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She smiled understandingly, tucking some hair behind my ear in an almost motherly sort of way.
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Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
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She was a conscientious mother, but not motherly.
The Glasgow Girls
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Jane, oddly, was showing her motherly instincts as she rubbed each of their backs with her hand.
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Many women are torn between their nationalism and motherly instincts.
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She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that an extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them.
Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls
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She gave her son a motherly hug.
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God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
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Leave Poll alone; she's in one of her trances!" called a motherly, good-natured woman whose trunk stood next to Polly's, and whose business was to support a son and three daughters upon stalwart shoulders, both figuratively and literally.
Polly of the Circus
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Andy finds time to squire a few pretty ladies around, too, and even his motherly Aunt Bee dallies with romance this season.
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Motherly love was glorified within the ideology of the bourgeois family.
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Then my grandmother, in true grandmotherly fashion, marched into her local bookseller and demanded to be told what the young people were reading these days.
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Jane watched with something akin to motherly pride as the general awarded him the Silver Star and the regent bestowed another medal, both of which she judged “richly deserved.”
A Covert Affair
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It was an incredible display of motherly love and forgiveness.
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Welcome to Elk Lodge!" called a motherly voice, and Mrs. Macksey appeared in the open door of the main corridor.
The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film
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She straightened the collar of his shirt in a very motherly sort of way.
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(1. 3.147-149) and even undermines her motherly status, observing that bawds are often older women, and mothers are older women (usually): "The name [of 'bawd']/is so in league with age that nowadays/It does eclipse three-quarters of a mother.
Draft: Women's Negotiations of Moral and Material Status in The Revenger's Tragedy
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Once, when eating breakfast at a small outdoor aboriginal restaurant in the mountains of Taiwan, the owner, a motherly woman, asked me if I wanted to try some, "san bei guan niu".
Matt Gibson: Finding Serendipity: How to Make Your Travels More Exciting
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She was quite plump, and emanated motherly love.
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Both my grandmothers wore shapeless, listless, grandmotherly dresses with baggy bosoms and they donned sturdy black oxford-type shoes.
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Barbara, meanwhile, came into her own at last as an extremely popular first lady who made the most of her grandmotherly image.
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First Impression: Kathy is described as a softhearted and motherly woman who likes to please.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor
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Is there anything better than a piece of motherly advice?
Times, Sunday Times
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The older woman waved even as she welcomed her son home with a motherly hug.
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Mia muttered something to her, and then she looked at me, her green eyes looking at me in a motherly sort of way.
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Looking at family problems from a grandmotherly perspective has thrown up some recurrent themes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The woman, from whom he got his blue eyes and brown hair, immediately took him into a tight motherly hug.
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She smiled and placed her hand on his cheek in a motherly sort of gesture, thanking him again for the Merlot.
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Everybody liked grandmotherly Barbara Bush, who kept her wicked barbs private and mostly stayed out of public political combat.
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I can almost hear a grandmotherly voice telling me that it's no way to get rid of a cold.
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She had meant only to point the way, but, following a new impulse, she went on, listening to the poor soul's motherly prattle about "me baby" and the "throuble" it was to "find clothes for the growin 'childer when me man is out av work and the bit and sup inconvaynient these hard times" as they descended to that darksome lower world where necessities take refuge when luxuries crowd them out from the gayer place above.
Rose in Bloom
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Behind the officers sits the Altar Guild—a group of grandmotherly women in matching red outfits—next to whom stands one half-empty pew, roped off as “Reserved” seating for former mayor Kurt Schmoke, current mayor Sheila Dixon, city comptroller Joan Pratt, and other community power brokers who call Bethel their home church.
American Grace
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She was a lovely, motherly old lady with a mane of white hair wound into a compact bun.
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She prepares for the showdown by rehearsing what she will say to this most unmotherly of mothers, reminding her of the atrocities she witnessed and facilitated, and the family she rejected.
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In a trial, a southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand.
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This tiny cottage was occupied by a charming, grandmotherly lady called Mrs. Newman.
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There was an unmotherly chortle from the other end of the phone.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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The retribution exacted from the Anti-Semite that day came in the form of a motherly chiding.
How We Avenged the Blums
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There is a distinct lack of grandmotherly clutter—no knickknacks, no lace doilies, no miniature teacups with depictions of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Ten Miles Past Normal
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Marsha's frown returned and for a moment Thomas feared she'd go all motherly on him.
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Beyond the doll, a book and a trio of wooden figures (princess, baby in cradle and a motherly market woman) are her only birthday gifts this year.
A Small Gift for a Small Girl
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Susan allowed the ship to drift down, and relaxed as the bulk settled into the receptive, motherly ground.
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In keeping with the atmosphere of restoration which marked nearly all state-sponsored and commercial culture in the 1950s, the songs were banal and consolatory; they spoke of motherly love, bell-towers, village life, and doves.
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Then, with the air of a motherly adult babying her child, he said, ‘why don't you get your mama to kiss your little boo-boo, you poor thing…?’
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Luckily, there is a motherly woman on hand who takes me to the ladies and gives me tissues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everybody liked grandmotherly Barbara Bush, who kept her wicked barbs private and mostly stayed out of public political combat.
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And the crazy family stuff, complete with a motherly white-haired and gowned Sherri Moon, seems to be an amalgamation of queues from FRIDAY THE 13TH, THE CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, and PSYCHO.
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Black and mulatto women, on the other hand, were masculinized in paintings which portrayed black women dominating Spanish and mestizo men and treating their children in neglectful and decidedly unmotherly ways.
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She was a lovely, motherly old lady with a mane of white hair wound into a compact bun.
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Realistic depictions of nurses treating their patients, leaning over them in "caring, motherly positions" and all the poses completely unposed as it were.
War Paint & Grey & Scarlet.
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Though she was called the ‘Mother of India, ‘Gandhi did not hesitate to pursue rather unmotherly activities such as intervening in Pakistan's civil war and bringing India into the nuclear age by acquiring atomic weapons.’
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His is a tale of jealousy, envy and treachery, but also of motherly love, shrewdness and adventure.
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It was an incredible display of motherly love and forgiveness.
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She was quiet, simple; in short, motherly, when seen by Cooper the winter of 1828-29.
James Fenimore Cooper
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But motherly warmth turns cold beside the journalistic revulsion the Molinari gambit provokes.
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Harriette's expression of resolve softened, and she reached out and cupped Marguerite's chin in a motherly fashion.
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She was a conscientious mother, but not motherly.
The Glasgow Girls
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His playing of Sarah the Cook - ruddy of cheek, in need of a fashion makeover from Trinny and Susannah - is full of pathos, mock shock and motherly fluster and concern.
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Onyx notably lacked inclination for housework, not to mention motherly instinct.
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Motherly love is a huge flame.
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the girl felt motherly and useful
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Almost every woman who meets him feels either the secret urge to fuck him, or becomes awash in motherly protective urges, or both.
Why I Hate Sandman
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Equally, the power of corporate towers is manifest in up-looking, phallic worship, and in the motherly (that is, custodial) surveillance of the world below.
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Her own daughters would undoubtedly have laughed at how motherly she sounded.
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Beth is distant and cold to Conrad, unable to show him the type of motherly love he needs and desires.
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From the time of her first acquaintance with him, till her death, in 1821, she treated him with the most flattering regard, -- with an affection, indeed, that might be called motherly, had there not been in it an element of excitement which was neither maternal nor dignified.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
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Crystal approached her with a motherly smile and a false calm performance.
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Sarah's face creased into an expression of motherly frustration, a look that said: Oh, you damn Brits, always with the self-deprecation.
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~ Some humpback whale calls deciphered -- "Australian scientists studying the sounds of humpback whales say they have begun to decode their mysterious communication system, identifying male pickup lines and motherly warnings.
Speedlinking 11/9/07
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I probably got a motherly smack on the back of the legs for the escapade.
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If you're over a certain age, say 75, and you have a sweet grandmotherly voice, you may be able to call them ‘dear’ and ‘honey’ with impunity.
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It's only me," and if there wasn't a great, big, motherly-looking hoptoad, out in the dusty road, and the next moment if that toad didn't begin hopping up and down as fast as she could hop.
Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories
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A butch lesbian with motherly tendencies, she maintained her dignity and in some lights could look beautiful.
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Her mother got the point and got rid of the blatent sneaky smile and replaced it with a friendly, motherly smile.
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A woman with a smile as ready as it is warm, Ann has all the motherly charms of a village matchmaker.
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Her appearance was motherly, and she had an aura about her that just seemed to welcome Katherine in.
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A short, plump and positively motherly lady appeared in the doorway, ushering us in.
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Selma breathed heavily, walked with lead feet, and possessed a grandmotherly smell that will forever be endearing to me (but problematic in covert operations).
Todd Kashdan: Three Clues That CEOs or Politicans Are Lying to You
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I didn't have that kind of motherly emotion at that point.
The Sun
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You can be called the motherly one, if you are in a group of people, which doesn't have to be bad.
Qdiosa Diary Entry
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She was stout enough to be a grandmother, but the hair confined beneath her hair net was dark, and her quick, decisive hands did not seem grandmotherly.
