Mammy accepted the effusions of Blanche with perfect composure.
Mammy always kept this linen wrapped in blue tissue paper, and after almost twenty years of use on grand occasions, it was still as beautiful as the day my mother received it as a bridal present.
Mammy Susan had plum pudding, fruit cake and pies to make, and I helped with all of them.
I tell you we cleaned that room with what Mammy Susan called "a lick and a promise.
Mammy Susan had sent it in care of a coloured laundress who did up our best shirt waists and collars, things we did not dare trust to the catch-as-catch-can method of the school laundry.
I'll give it to her," as Mammy Susan says when she admits something pleasant about any one for whom she has no regard.
Mammy Susan had a witch's wand to stir things with and whatever she touched was perfect.
Mammy Susan's philosophy always delighted me and I encouraged her to go on.
Mammy Susan had as usual put up enough food for a regiment in my lunch box.
I busied myself helping Mammy Susan prepare for the guests.
This here ain't no side show Docallison is a runnin'," Mammy would say.
Tell Mammy Susan I have got a good starting of rose geranium for her.
Mammy Susan and Blanche and bow-legged Bill were called in to see old Santy, and great was their delight and joy.
She would creep in to him in the night during Mammy Easter's watches and talk him into a raging fever.
But later, when Mammy Easter went to call her mistress for supper, she found her with her face buried in the pillows.
That his life was saved was due to Virginia and to Mammy Easter, and in no particle to his mother.
I see now, too, that you was plumb right about wanting to take care of his mammy and daddy, and about wanting that sermon preached, and about erecting a lasting monument to commemorate his name.
I even gloried in the attention she paid his mammy and daddy.
Looks like me an' her'd hardly get settled in our chairs on the porch before her mammy would call out that Joe wanted water, or Joe wanted to set up, or what not.
Say, Jim, Johnny Cartwright and Carrie Wade is driving his mammy mighty nigh distracted with their doings.
Mammy Viney rather enjoyed recounting such remarks, and never took one jot or one tittle from that which she passed along.
Roderick laughed good-naturedly, as he followed her into the house, but Mammy Viney tossed her head.
But Bill had been of no account, and after his not too sadly mourned demise, his wife, promoted to the dignified title of Mammy Viney, had returned with her little girl to the Algonquin Manse, and there she was still.
But you wouldn't want me to stay and bother Aunt Kirsty in the kitchen all my life, now, would you, Mammy Viney?
Leslie persuaded Mammy Viney to let her come to the manse to wash, while Viney Junior, in high glee, promised to take care of little William Henry.
Roderick was passing the Manse one day whenMammy Viney hailed him.
Those little niggers of Mammy Judy's are lying round somewhere and are mighty 'cute, and sassy, I tell you.
And here's a leg for a stocking, And here's a foot for a shoe, And he has a kiss for daddy, And two for his mammy also.
Soon afterwards a tall man wearing a broad-brimmed hat entered the room, and nodding to the other persons, threw his whip into the corner and took the seat which Mammy Coe vacated.
I believe that my mother made a present to Mammy Coe of the gayest article of dress she possessed, which she guessed would be far more welcome than money.
I was very glad to put them on and accompany her to supper in the great hall, where several not very pleasant-looking personages were seated at a long table, with Mammy Coe at the head of it.
When I awoke I saw a person standing near me, dressed so exactly like Mammy Coe, that at first I thought it was her, but I quickly discovered that she was my mother.
My father rose, concluding that he was the host, and explained how he happened to be his guest, whileMammy Coe stood by ready to answer any questions if required.
Old Mammy Redd, of Marblehead, Sweet milk could turn to mould in churn.
Evidently it was high time to be rid of Mammy Redd.
I reckon now his mammy has grieved her heart sore many a time wondering what would become of a boy growing up to manhood who'd never be able to say a single intelligible word.
Are we going to try and take him back to hismammy to-day, Phil?
After de war and we was free, mammy hired out to our old master and we stayed on there two years.
I heard sister say, 'Mammy I would like to go to the hoedown tonight'.
We had big fields o' wheat an cahn an sich, but mah mammy didden work in de fiel', she spin an she weave.
I'se half Indian and I look it too, and if I wo' gold rings in my ears and nose I would look just like my mammy did 'cause she was full blooded Indian.
Soon the Missis come in our cabin and was talkin' to my Mammy when that crazy old parrot he begin to get fussy like somethin' was wrong.
Mammy used to card wool and cotton and spin, then she would weave goods.
When we got up to leave, the old Negro mammy ran out and fell down and kissed our feet.
And mammy bade us kiss you and love you, and that she'd come back if she'd be let; but she found something in the thatch that took her away.
And Miss Emma's childen can't do without old 'Mammy Betsy,' for I takes care of all thar pet chickens.
Sometimes he would git so mad wid us chillun, my mammy would have to run and hide us to keep him from killin' us.
George (enters at left): I was jes' suah I yerd mammy callin' me in heah.
Lan' sakes, I reckon what's good enough for dere ole niggah mammy 's good enough for dem two black niggahs.
Before going out, Mammy Muff put the nice soup she had made for dinner on a great chest in the parlour to cool; as they were very hungry, they meant to be back in a short time.
The next Bear in size was his wife, called Mammy Muff, from her smooth skin; and the smallest of the three was their little darling, Tiny.
One stout old negro mammy stopped to stare in surprise at his bloody head.
My old mammy used to say that the Boones were born wolves.
My old black mammy used to live here, and she has made me feel as if my blood had turned to ice-water, lots of times, with her tales.
Every old black mammy or uncle who had ever worked on the place, every little pickaninny who could find the slightest claim, visited the great house at some time during the day for a share of its holiday cheer.
There, Mammy says I can," Matilda shouted triumphantly, and spinning around on one set of toes, till the old hood slipped away from the pin and fell to the floor.
Let's get into a ring round Mammy an' open 'em one at a time," said Mark.
I suppose boys like horses," said the old man, accepting the chair Mammy Belle brought forward, and evidently not indifferent to the admiration his gift excited.
Mammy says she reckons the sun's going to shine by and by, so she let me come," he announced.
Mammy had sole charge of the Norton household, and no doubt it was a relief to her to know that her charge had found so safe an asylum; but on the occasion of her first visit the shopkeepers felt they were being weighed in the balance.
Mammy Belle and Susanna were there, also, to look on.
Jus' you ax James Mandeville in the mawnin'," added Mammy Belle.
When Mammy Belle came for her charge at noon, Marion asked her if she knew anything about old Mr. Goodman.
They were in the midst of the dressing, Mammy Belle looking on in delight, when there was a ring at the door, and of all persons, who should it be but Mr. Goodman with a large package under his arm!
She saw Mammy Belle on the corner one morning, gazing over here with all her eyes.
Mammy and I are of the same opinion, then," said Norah, helping him off with his coat.
It developed that James Mandeville's mother was ill in a sanitarium, his father absorbed in business, and his only guardian an old colored woman, known as Mammy Belle.
Yes, you is comin', honey; don' you talk to mammy dat way.
It was Marion who made the explanations,--their friendship for James Mandeville and Mammy Belle's difficulty with the tree, and she did it with a gracious charm of manner that was irresistible.
It was after their late dinner and Norah was putting up the last bit of holly, whenMammy Belle came in.
When the grocer's boy or the one from the butcher, come for orders, they wait in the kitchen while Mammy comes to me here, and we talk over what we need.
Mammy has been sick in bed since nine o'clock; and Jake Stall did not put a foot inside the house to my personal knowledge," but although she said this as if to signify that her mind was made up, Fred could detect a little hesitation.
Perhaps he thinks my old black Mammy did; or poor, but honest, Jake Stall.
As they sat together on the train Steve said: "I'll be larnin' to do things jes' like mammy said fer me ter do.
I'd every bit as soon whip my mammy as a body feelin' like you do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mammy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amah; dam; mammy; mother; mummy; nurse; nursemaid; stepmother
