Use motherly in a sentence
Sentences ending with motherly
- It never struck me as particularly motherly. [10]
More example sentences with the word motherly in them
- Mrs. Benson beamed with motherly content, and was quite as tearful as ungrammatical, but her mind was practical and forecasting. [4]
- Captain Stanwix's wife, who was a good, motherly person, took charge of the little orphan, and arriving at Carvel Hall delivered her to my grandfather, who brought her up as his own daughter. [9]
- Her motherly solicitude was aroused, and she tried to get him interested in the talk and win him to a happier frame of mind, but the cloud of sadness remained on his countenance. [5]
- I never believed that story; I couldn't believe she would be so dead to all motherly instincts as to come here, knowing the risk she would run of getting me into irremediable trouble. [5]
- She had grown stouter and broader, so that it was difficult to recognize in this robust, motherly woman the slim, lively Natasha of former days. [2]
- But Mavra Kuzminichna stood at the closed gate for some time with moist eyes, pensively swaying her head and feeling an unexpected flow of motherly tenderness and pity for the unknown young officer. [2]
- Still, and in spite of the lavish demonstrations of more than motherly affection which the widow showered her daughter-in-law, Dada felt a stranger, and ill at ease in the great house in the Canopic way. [10]
- This was to some extent explained, a few days later, when Wetherell found himself gazing across the counter at the motherly figure of Mrs. Moses Hatch, who held the well-deserved honor of being the best cook in Coniston. [9]
- Mrs. Mackellar's motherly smile, Sam's civil bow, and the rosy cheeks of many-buttoned Robert made us feel at home as soon as we crossed the threshold. [6]
- For an instant she seemed not to comprehend, and then a flood of motherly feeling overcame her. [4]
- On her return she forced herself to reprove George for his recklessness before she yielded fully to her motherly affection. [10]
- She could find protection and love with Pollux and look to dame Doris for motherly counsel. [10]
- Julia greeted the pretty creature in whom she had once taken a motherly interest with affectionate sympathy, beckoned Arsinoe to her, smiled as she listened to her request for a night's shelter, and led her with much satisfaction to her husband. [10]
- She could pour out to this motherly soul all that weighed on her own, and was received by her as a beloved daughter of her old age. [10]
- The main part of his daily life was occupied in looking after "Fan," in a motherly way, and doctoring her for a hundred ailments which existed only in his imagination. [5]
- A pleasanter, more motherly, sweeter matron I never met. [10]
- She obeyed her motherly impulse to encourage Polykarp with some loving words, and climbing up the narrow stair that led to the roof, she went into his room. [10]
- I will step in presently, and be the anxious, motherly friend. [10]
- Yes, that was her own Atossa--this her motherly friend, and there stood, not the angry king, but the man she loved. [10]
- The kindness of her motherly friend should not bring misfortune upon her. [10]
- In obedience to her motherly adviser, the convalescent remained quiet for a while; but joy seemed to have doubled her strength, for she desired to see Agatha, Alexander, and Andreas, and--she colored, and a beseeching glance met Euryale's eyes--and Diodoros. [10]
- When she opened her eyes again her head was resting in the lap of a kind, motherly woman, while some men were just bearing away the senseless form of Diodoros on a bier. [10]
- Her motherly heart had found a new object to love, and exclaiming, "Impossible! [10]
- There is something good and motherly about Washington, the grand old benevolent National Asylum for the Helpless. [5]
- Her motherly instincts found an outlet in the care of the half-crushed, but not hopelessly lost man; and the desire to drag him back to life kept her busy day and night, and made her regard everything else as trivial and of secondary importance. [10]
- That would account for a great deal, for the milk in a woman's veins sweetens, or at least, dilutes an acrid doctrine, as the blood of the motherly cow softens the virulence of small-pox, so that its mark survives only as the seal of immunity. [6]
- But a watchful eye noted these things and in time a motherly sympathy unsealed the secret. [5]
- It was Dame Dorothea who in her motherly pride had led the Gaulish lady into her son's workshop. [10]
- It seemed to be a relief to her to rush from one mood to the other; but neither in her grief, nor when her motherly feeling led her to talk, nor yet in her wrath, did she lose her perfect dignity. [10]
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