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Example sentences for "her mother"

  • Her mother, thirty years before, had eloped and left Germany with her music teacher, to give herself over to lifelong, drudging bondage at the kitchen range.

  • To hear him recalled vividly the days of her childhood, when he always used to spend his business vacations at her mother's home in Maine.

  • I don't WANT you to go," she whispered in her mother's ear, sobbing.

  • Trina would arrive breathless from her raids upon the bargain counters, her pale cheeks flushed, her hair blown about her face and into the corners of her lips, her mother's net reticule stuffed to bursting.

  • It was easy to lie to McTeague, who took everything for granted; and since the occasion of her trickery with the money that was to have been sent to her mother, Trina had found falsehood easier than ever.

  • She buried her face in the pillow and thought of her mother with an infinite longing.

  • Her mother's way of putting it jarred on her; yet the hungry craving she felt at this time for a touch of companionship with a girl of her own age, her longing for the beloved Ellen of her childhood, overbore all shrinking.

  • She put the last tiny candy potato in place, pushed back the basket, wiped her hands, and turned fully to her mother.

  • The "middle class" daughter of to-day, if her mother is living and housekeeping, goes indoors into a vacuum.

  • I had always noticed this scent about any of the things which had belonged to her mother; and many of the letters were addressed to her--yellow bundles of love-letters, sixty or seventy years old.

  • We were interested to study a long letter quite coherently written to her mother a few days before we saw the young woman, and about the time when she first told her long story to the department manager.

  • This attorney, consulting with me, soon came to the conclusion that the only interest he would serve in the case was that of the girl, and then only in the effort to save her from the miserable influences of her mother.

  • Her mother came to believe that this was undoubtedly the fact.

  • Janet wishes now to take out a twenty year endowment policy in favor of her mother.

  • Perhaps it was this money which became now the amount she was paying to her father's pensioner, now what she had to send home to her mother, and, again, her payments upon an imaginary sewing machine.

  • Then she went and said her prayers to her mother: it was evident she was being admirably brought up.

  • And she paused and glanced from the prince to her mother, and from Rowland to the Cavaliere, and then threw back her head and burst into far-ringing laughter.

  • She was looking at no one, and, save for the fact of her being alone, you would not have supposed she was in her mother's house.

  • If her mother was a daughter of the great Republic, it was to be supposed that the young girl was a flower of the American soil; but her beauty had a robustness and tone uncommon in the somewhat facile loveliness of our western maidenhood.

  • Her mother is sick and she had to go home for the night.

  • Mrs. Simon Fletcher is going to lend us her mother's braided rugs and Mrs. Levi Boulter some old chairs and Aunt Mary Shaw will lend us her cupboard with the glass doors.

  • She said she had never written a letter and she didn't know how to, or what to say, but there was bundle of love letters in her mother's top bureau drawer which had been written to her by an old 'beau.

  • She's got a good deal of her mother in her, but she hasn't got all.

  • Her head had a downward droop; her step was soft and apologetic, even in her mother's house, and her smile had the sickly, uncertain flicker that so often comes from a secret humiliation.

  • As her mother had no room for her household belongings, Mrs. Andersen had brought home with her only her bedroom set, which now furnished her own room at Mrs. Lorch's.

  • As her father remarked, she must have inherited the "constitution" which he was never tired of admiring in her mother.

  • Henry Linwood paid great attention to Isabella, which was looked upon with gratification by her mother, and became a matter of general conversation with all present.

  • To the credit of Marion be it said, she used every means to obtain the freedom of her mother, who had been sold to Parson Wilson, at Natchez.

  • She has never been from under her mother's care.

  • Marion had been brought up by her mother to look after the domestic concerns of her cottage in Virginia, and well knew how to perform the duties imposed upon her.

  • After a sleepless night, Gertrude arose from her couch, resolved that she would reveal the whole matter to her mother.

  • The sight of Betsey brought the image of little Mary back again, but she would not have pained her mother by alluding to her for the world.

  • Her mother, however, could not stay long enough to suspect anything.

  • Aye, do; and tell her to come to her mother in the dairy.

  • Totty turned her face towards Dinah, and looked at her an instant, then lifted herself up, put out her little arms, and let Dinah lift her from her mother's lap.

  • Her mother's fortune had been spent by that good-for-nought Sorrel, and Hetty had Sorrel's blood in her veins.

  • Then, without speaking, she nestled to her mother again.

  • She had made herself a captive; she had taken herself in the strong net of her mother-love.

  • Then the child ran away to her mother, saying: "Ah, every one is fond of home!

  • As Christmas Day drew near she said to her mother, "I wonder what the good Saint Nicholas will bring me this year.

  • In spite of her mother's advice she wrapped herself in her pelisse, put on a warm hood, and took the road to the mountain.

  • Lord bless you, nothing of her mother in her!

  • A spy behind her in the rumble of her mother's carriage!

  • One afternoon she came to her mother in bitter tears.

  • Flossie had been asleep about two hours when she suddenly called to her mother.

  • Nan handed them to her mother, and then Aunt Sarah gave out the work.

  • Gwen to her mother, trying to alter the key of the conversation.

  • Never for a moment had violence come between these two since long ago he had, in spite of her mother's protest in the background, carried her kicking and squalling to the nursery for some forgotten crime.

  • If she picked any, she took only a few, mostly to lay on her mother's pillow--for she had a habit of drawing comfort from a cinnamon pink or a trillium laid where its delicate fragrance reached her with every breath.

  • Her mother's health, which always had been perfect, broke about the time of the author's first remembrance due to typhoid fever contracted after nursing three of her children through it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced towards; because she; fair sweet; her beautiful; her best; her bosom; her death; her for; her grandfather; her great; her memory; her mind; her now; her right; her sister; her thoughts; her young; her youth; here given; hereby authorized; hereditary succession; hereditary taint; heroic deeds; heroic poem; power supplied; well they