They tied her clothes over her head and hanged her by her waist to a hickory sapling, and ripped open her bowels until a babe, that would within a few weeks have occupied its place in its mother's arms, fell to the ground.
She had passed through great suffering in making her escape with her two children; a third was born in Cincinnati--yet it too must share the anticipated fate of its mother.
I could never silence my conscience if I were to deprive a child, already wretched enough, of its all--its mother!
The effect of such a mood upon the child whose heart throbs beneath that of its mother is one of nature's mysteries.
From that day forward the child never saw a sad look on its mother's face.
Bending on one knee, he placed it reverently by the side of its mother, with its head upon her breast.
Villefort, thunderstruck, fell upon his knees; the child dropped from his arms, and rolled on the floor by the side of its mother.
Ask yourself, wherefore, after rescuing the infant from its living grave, you did not restore it to its mother?
The little creature, as if insensible of its mother's death, continued to cling to the dead body till they reached their evening quarters; and even then it required considerable force to disengage it.
Because the milk is the proper nutriment of the child in the womb of its mother, therefore if the milk run out, it is a token that the child is not nourished, and consequently is weak.
Let it be granted that the race of man was born as literally out of the animal forms below him as the child is born out of these vague, prenatal animal forms in its mother's womb.
Not by his own will or exertion, surely, any more than the embryo in its mother's womb develops into the full-grown child by its own exertion or than our temperaments and complexions and statures are matters of our own wills and choice.
Something greater than man and before him, to which he sustains the relation that the unborn child sustains to its mother, must enter into our thought of his origin and development.
I stake a calf: stake thou a lamb, its mother's self in size.
Around his gravestone with the first spring-breeze Flock the bairns all, to win the kissing-prize: And whoso sweetliest lip to lip applies Goes crown-clad home to its mother.
To pray is to act towards GOD as the child does to its mother, the poor man towards the rich, eager to do him good, the friend towards his friend, who longs to show him affection.
Should one of those moments of vague misgivings, that leave the soul as it were in utter darkness, come to overwhelm you, call upon GOD, as a child in terror cries out to its mother.
Hence the infant's sublime unconsciousness of danger and absolute fearlessness, and its impulse to spring upward out of its mother's arms, the laws of gravity notwithstanding!
Septimus Hardon thought mournfully of the treasure he had just lost, and, taking the child, he hurriedly bore it to its mother, telling the old man to wait.
I am its mother, and what else have I here to cling to?
This queer, staring, soft little being in its mother's arms is organizing something within itself, beside which the most wonderful orchestra one can imagine is a lump of rude clumsiness.
As to the ceremony of assigning a child either to its father's or to its mother's tribe, see W.
However, parents had it at their option to assign a child at birth either to the tribe of its father or to the tribe of its mother; this they did by pronouncing over the infant the name either of the father's or of the mother's god.
Thirdly, A child that is newly born, if it have not other comforts to keep it warm than it had in its mother's womb, it dies.
Following the natural impulse of his soul, man must pour out before his God all his desires and sighs, all the emotions of grief and delight which sway his heart, in order that he may find rest, like a child at its mother's bosom.
The infant in its mother's arms was the first on whom their savage fury fell,--it was tomahawked and scalped.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its mother" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
