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Sentences starting with mother

Mother and daughter were alike in that both were inarticulate, but Janet had a secret contempt for Hannah's uncomplaining stoicism. [9]
Mother always says we are happy when we deny self in order to do good. [10]
Mother knew the way; and as we--she, I mean, and Dada and myself. [10]
Mother has made up her mind to the change, but grandmother is bitter about it. [6]
Mother wanted to try it, but on sober second thought she put me through. [5]
Mother is in there already. [10]
Mother wants to talk to her. [9]
Mother had a right to expect a better report. [10]
Mother of Heaven, no! [11]
Mother has given me money, and I'm spending my own little legacy, all but five thousand dollars of it. [11]

Sentences ending with mother

Take these cakes--for yourselves--and give him this one, from his mother. [5]
And what about your mother? [2]
In the morning you will visit Kassandane, chat with Atossa, and listen to the teaching of your noble mother. [10]
Who should understand you then, if not your mother? [10]
This hour makes you my son, makes me your mother. [10]
I cannot tell you how we have followed you, with what interest and delight through your travels, as you have told their story in your letters to your mother. [6]
It was left you by Becky--by your mother. [9]
Dame Joanna, do you be my mother! [10]
I arrived at Wye Island in season to dine with the good judge and his family, and there I made over to his charge the property of Patty and her mother. [9]
If not, it would be the turn next of those whom she herself had pushed into the arms of the fell monster: First Heliodora, and then her mother! [10]

Short sentences using mother

That was my work, mother! [5]
Did your mother wear that? [10]
But this mother was different. [5]
And my mother was dead. [11]
My mother would understand. [5]
His mother continued to smile. [9]
My mother was the patient. [5]
I'll speak to the mother. [11]
His mother left the Coliseum. [5]
Didn't you say so, mother? [12]

Sentences containing mother two or more times

To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
This corpse, this woman--proclaim it to every one--the sibyl was my mother yes, yes, my own mother! [10]
Kit's mother, poor woman, is waiting at the grate below stairs, accompanied by Barbara's mother (who, honest soul! [12]
In her behavior to her mother Natasha seemed rough, but she was so sensitive and tactful that however she clasped her mother she always managed to do it without hurting her or making her feel uncomfortable or displeased. [2]
Near it was the summer-house where Guida and her mother used to sit and read, Guida on the three-legged stool, her mother on the low, wide seat covered with ferns. [11]
His position was the more difficult because with his salary of twelve hundred rubles he had not only to keep himself, his mother, and Sonya, but had to shield his mother from knowledge of their poverty. [2]
Can it be that the curse is passing away, and my daughter is to be restored to me,--such as her mother would have had her,--such as her mother was? [6]
Yes, mother, I tell you he is coming soon, and when I am well, then--then--ah, mother what is this? [10]
Was there ever such a mother as Kit's mother, on her son's showing; or was there ever such comfort in poverty as in the poverty of Kit's family, if any correct judgment might be arrived at, from his own glowing account! [12]
I have long since observed that the fate of the house to which your father and mother belong is a matter of perfect indifference to you; and yet you would have to seek shelter and protection under its roof if your husband--" "Well, mother? [10]

More example sentences with the word mother in them

He had loved Zoe in a way that in a mother would have meant martyrdom, if necessary, and in a father would have meant sacrifice when needed; and indeed he had sacrificed both time and money to find Zoe. [11]
See here, mother, you've sacrificed enough for me already. [9]
But I'm glad you're going to the Old Mother of all. [6]
I knowed what your notions of right and wrong was--your--your mother had them. [9]
Will you forgive your mother, my dear, for speaking to you? [11]
Have you consulted your mother, Mr. [4]
Tell that to your mother, little wagtail, and come again very often. [10]
I am sure your mother will be grateful to me. [2]
But--but why grieve your mother when it--when it may not happen? [5]
I hope that your mother is better. [9]
My visits to your mother have been to me a comfort, a pleasure,--for she is a rare person. [9]
Go back to your mother directly. [10]
You would bring your mother back home again. [10]
The Lord took your father to himself as a martyr; your mother has dedicated herself to Heaven. [10]
In fact, the young mother had waited from early dawn with increasing anxiety for her husband. [10]
I reckon if you'd ever be'n a mother yo'self, Valet de Chambers, you wouldn't talk sich foolishness as dat. [5]
I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
More shame for you, mother, I was going to say. [12]
It is peace you want, my mother, peace and solitude, in which the soul goes to sleep. [11]
Why, mother, did you think it like the ballet? [8]
Her mother said you suggested me. [8]
Go 'long with you now, and do as your mother told you. [5]
I would that you might know what my mother has suffered from such a man, Richard. [9]
How'll yer face yer mother if yer turn yer back on the inimy of yer counthry? [11]
Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
When, a few years ago, my mother was ill in Holland, a reply to a telegram marked "urgent" was received in Leipsic in eighteen minutes. [10]
Miss Clara Browne wrote home to her mother in the same terms as Miss Florence Smythe,--that the school was getting dreadful common, and they were letting in very queer folks. [6]
His mother had written him, asking why he stayed so long in an unimportant city, he who had been so active a traveler hitherto. [4]
I was still writing it when Michael Clones came up the drive to tell me you and your mother were here. [11]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
His own mother wouldn't 'a' knowed him. [5]
And if he would take her forth, give me alarm in the room opposite yonder door, and stay them, and--" "Stay them, holy Mother, at the price of my life. [11]
I repeat, I would not for worlds have asked my father or my mother or Dr. [9]
Clara and Jean would never enter again the New York hotel which their mother had frequented in earlier days. [5]
And so matters would have remained, and in a few weeks, after passing the examination, I should have returned to my happy mother, had not a perverse Fate willed otherwise. [10]
What her mother would have called policy and reasonable concessions she would have given different names. [4]
Then her tears would burst out afresh, she would utter imploring supplications to the gods for mercy, and a few minutes later, begin conjuring her mother to take her to the hanging-gardens, that they might hear Nitetis' defence of her own conduct. [10]
For us the worst anxiety was over, and our mother recovered her composure. [10]
Bessie had grown worse and she, her mother, had not even inquired for the little one. [10]
So did it work upon me that, after many days, I got for the lad his own again, and there he is happier, and his mother happier, than the Governor in his palace. [11]
Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge. [2]
Take back your words, mother, take back your words, or--" Katuti turned paler and paler, and said soothingly: "The words may sound hard, but he has broken faith with you, and openly dishonored you. [10]
Since those harsh words with which Cambyses had sent her from the hall, not the smallest fragment of news had reached her concerning either her angry lover, or his mother and sister. [10]
And how few words in secret had we as yet spoken, how little had we discussed what might befall on the morrow, and how he should demean himself to his mother! [10]
Exploding at the word intriguer, Nicholas, raising his voice, told his mother he had never expected her to try to force him to sell his feelings, but if that were so, he would say for the last time.... [2]
It was no wonder that the Hollisters were Democrats, for they had a queer streak in them; owing, no doubt, to the fact that old Mr. Jules Hollister's mother had been a Frenchwoman. [9]
True, the old woman, her mother, is worse still; she scolds and screams. [10]
The noble, simple-hearted woman who was so proud of her son's increasing renown, his mother, died long ago. [10]
The spectators crowded within the bar and surrounded Laura who, calmer than anyone else, was supporting her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess of joy. [5]
The passionate tenderness with which his mother received him did not please the sixteen-year-old officer. [2]
The bow-windowed room, with the view of the belfry and the stately guildhall, was pleasantly fitted up for his mother, and the city gardeners received orders to send the finest house-plants to his residence. [10]
Orlando's mother dealt with the situation in her own way. [11]
My mother strode with the same eagerness in her eye and her step, to the counter, and said: "Is Dr. Barrett of St. Louis, here? [5]
As the troubles with the mother country thickened, she took to a foot-wheel, and often in the crisp autumn evenings I would hear the bumping of it as I walked to the house, and turn the knob to come upon her spinning by the twilight. [9]
Do you remain with the little one; my mother is at work, and I must go with the prisoners of war to Harmontis. [10]
Again Fate interfered with the course of this story; for on my way to school that sunny Saturday morning I met Clara's mother, and at sight of her the wish merged into a resolve. [10]
So the battles with the "Knoten" were continued until the Berlin revolution called forth more serious struggles, and our mother sent us away to Keilhau. [10]
She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother. [2]
Something--Rustem will go with me.--Important, very important, Mother Joanna. [10]
You must stay with me for the present, and not go to your mother till I have settled everything that is necessary. [10]
They became instinct with life to me, and have always remained so; for my mother gave them the form of dramas, in which I was permitted to be an actor. [10]
He was sitting, with his head bowed on his hands, opposite to the large portrait of her dead mother in her bridal robes. [10]
However, Orion went with his anxious friend to the ship-yard; the old ship-builder, a kind-hearted giant, was as ready and glad to undertake the rescue of the Sisters as if each one was his own mother. [10]
Many a time, with her mother, she had sat upon the shore at St. Aubin's Bay, and looked out where white sails fluttered like the wings of restless doves. [11]
It was different with her father and mother. [11]
After a word with her and her mother, I went up the stairs. [9]
It was scarred with erasures and interlineations till its mother wouldn't have known it if it had had one. [5]
Tom looked on with a grin, while little Tom and Peggy reached out their hands in delight, their mother vigorously blocking their intentions. [9]
Then I waked with a cry, but my man was beside me, and his arm was round my neck; and this dream, is it not a foolish dream, my mother? [11]
It would be wise, mother, for you to leave this abode of misery. [10]
And it was wise, for, had you seen him, it would have broken your poor mother heart to give him up. [10]
Come when you will, and call me your mother with the same perfect confidence with which I, from my whole heart, name you my daughter. [10]
The sleeping lion will wake again, and, when he uses his teeth and paws--" "My mother will run away, and your father will follow her," replied Caesarion with a melancholy smile, wholly untinged by scorn. [10]
Not any here will refuse to drink her health right cordially in this bumper of wine, for each and every one has personally known, and loved, and honored the very best one of them all--his own mother. [5]
Besides, all you will have to do will be to state what you have seen, and then, if I possibly can, I will bring you back under the tender escort of this arm, to your mother once more. [10]
Rufinus and I will go with you and explain to your mother. [10]
I suppose you will be wishing to take your mother somewhere this summer, but if you care to come here in the autumn, you will be welcome. [9]
Even my mother will be sure to approve of this arrangement. [10]
Perhaps the father will be living at the rate of ten thousand a year on a salary of four thousand; perhaps the mother, more beautiful and younger than her beautified daughters, will rouge; perhaps the young ladies will make wax-work. [4]
The devoted daughter, wife, mother, whose life has been given to unselfish labors, who has filled a place which it seems to others only an angel would make good, reproaches herself with incompetence and neglect of duty. [6]
As a young wife she was irreproachable; perhaps she could not have been so as a mother. [2]
There is Hadrian's wife Sabina talking out there to your mother. [10]
Will you, the wife of the great Cyrus, permit me to call you mother? [10]
So a young wife not yet a mother loses herself for hours together in a vista of unexplored experience. [11]
The queen mother, whose position, in the eyes of the people, is nearly as high as that of the monarch himself, will do nothing to thwart the happiness of her youngest and favorite son. [10]
The mother, Matter, whom for the sake of the verse I called by her Greek name Hyle, was also invested with a shade of comedy as a dissatisfied wife and the mother-in-law of Intellect. [10]
Melissa threw her whole soul into the dance while Demeter was seeking the lost Persephone, her thoughts were with her brothers; and she laughed as heartily as any one at the jests with which Iambe cheered the stricken mother. [10]
But her mother, who was born a countess--if the shoe doesn't make a foot small which Nature created big, there's such an outcry! [10]
You, our Ann, who have already learnt to be so good a mother in the Sisters's school? [10]
The sculptor Soteles, who had followed his footsteps since the apprenticeship in Rhodes, was intrusted with the erection of the monument to Myrtilus in Tennis, and another highly gifted young sculptor, who pursued his former course, with the execution of the one to his mother. [10]
The old lady who had been so liberal in her treatment of the singers was Damia, the mother of Porphyrius. [10]
The worthy doctor, who had baptized both my mother and father, died suddenly at Carvel Hall the spring following, of a cold contracted while visiting a poor man who dwelt across the river. [9]
It was he who first confided in me that he would not force Antoinette to marry; it was she, at length, who told me the story of Nicholas Temple and his mother. [9]
Her grandson Hanno, who escaped with his life, at the bidding of his father Satabus, who revered his mother, had made his way to her amid great perils to convey the sorrowful news. [10]
You will not whistle and hum over that, but sing out with all your might, as you used when my mother was alive, when you and your apprentices joined Dionysus's drunken rout. [10]
And Caracalla yielded, while her hand moved as lightly over the brow of the terrible man as when years ago it had soothed her mother to sleep. [10]
Yes, something of which she was still ignorant must be oppressing Wolff, and, with the firm resolve to give him no peace until he confessed everything to her, she returned to the couch of her invalid mother. [10]
With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
The things for which her mother had striven she took for granted, and thought of them not at all, and she had by nature that simplicity and astonishing frankness of manner and speech which was once believed to be an exclusive privilege of duchesses. [9]
Consider the ladder which he has climbed, the illustrious vocations he has served--and vocations is the right word; he has in all those vocations acquitted himself with high credit and honor to his country and to the mother that bore him. [5]

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