Within a year after the defence of the Kennistons, Mr. Webster was called upon to defend his Alma Mater against the acts of the Legislature of his native State.
The mater has asked everyone of a right age within a dozen miles around, and the house will be crammed with visitors.
I always meant to be that, Peg; and, as the mater says, it is only another kind of battle.
Head of Christ, by Jesse; Vanity, by Titian; Mater Doloroso, by Sassoferrato.
In glass case on stand at first window, Mater Dolorosa, by Guido Reni.
The first three stanzas, however, of the Stabat Mater will serve to show how well MacCarthy accomplished his difficult task: By the cross, on which suspended.
One of them, the famous Stabat Mater of Jacopone da Todi, has been considered by some critics as quite as beautiful as the Dies Irae in poetic expression, though below it as poetry because of the lesser sublimity of its subject.
I think the Mater will take the train and save herself some of the climb.
Mater says since the room is cleared we may just as well finish with a little hop ourselves.
If you'd go, now and then, you'd cheer the mater up.
I say, you chaps," Ninian said to them, "you might go and see my mater sometimes.
The Vicar was frightfully sick about it, and jawed Gilbert after the service, and the mater told Mary the truth about herself.
The mater is just daffy about you--ought to see her letters.
Breck told me that she really was better than nothing, and his mater was terribly keen about having her around.
Mater popped the news she's going to open up old Grassmere pretty soon.
The mater got a notion she wanted me to come up to Bar Harbor and bring down the yacht.
I was in London when mater happened to mention the name of her jewel of a secretary.
But the Wesleys call her Alma Mater also, and, not less, Newman.
In the Mater Dolorosa, suffering is tormented into agony: the anguish is too human: it is not sufficiently softened by resignation; and makes us turn away with a too painful sympathy.
Witness his lovely Virgin in the Vatican, his Mater Sapientiæ, and his celebrated Assumption at Venice, in which the eyes absolutely float in rapture.
In his Mater Amabilis, sweetness and beauty are sacrificed to expression; and dignity is exaggerated into masculine energy.
It is remarkable, that towards the end of his life, Guido more frequently painted the Mater Dolorosa, and gave to the heads of his Madonnas a look of melancholy, disconsolate resignation, which is extremely affecting.
Of course, theMater goes and calls and gushes and comes back talking about beauty and talent and all the rest of it.
The Mater wanted to send me in the car, but I said I'd rather ride.
Back comes the Mater almost in tears and says she really doesn't know whatever she's going to do about it, and there never was such a fiasco, etc.
The expressions are respectively equivalent to mater ejus, not mater sua; pater ejus, -- pater suus.
I wanted to reach Taormina as soon as possible, so as to be on the spot when the mater arrives.
As soon as there's a chance that the mater can have arrived I shall go down to Santa Margherita, Sir Evelyn Haines' place, and have it out with her.
Still I'm certain Mater would be less scared of it than she would of a mouse, even if the wire could kill her and the mouse couldn't.
But now where ye take vpon you to defende the hole mater as ye were in no default.
But my lord if it were in an other mannys caas than your owne and out of themater whiche ye fauor I doubt not but that ye wold think him that shuld haue doen as ye have doen non only worthy hevy wordes but also hevy dedys.
Aduertising you that it is fully determynyd betwixt my lord Chaunceler and me that we will sitt vpon the mater in variaunce betwixt Elizabeth Colcoke widowe and you the Friday after Alhallow day.
We--the pater and I--were awfully cut up when the mater died.
I haven’t a picture of the mater here; we have only one, and the pater keeps that.
Then he got confidential and told me a lot of interesting crimes this mater of his had committed in her mad efforts to make a companion of him.
He found his glasses and wiped 'em off, and said it was too bad the mater couldn't have seen him, because it would have been a bright spot in her life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dam; mammy; mother; mummy; parent; stepmother
