The kindly woman, as she spoke, stroked her brow and eyes with maternal tenderness, and Barine felt as if goodness itself had quelled the tempest in her soul.
The girl follows his example, and clings fast only to the doll in which she sees the living child, in order to do justice to the maternal instinct, the token of her sex.
For this purpose she did not need the aid of Charmian, her uncle Archibius's sister, who had hitherto been a beloved associate and maternal friend.
Her maternal instincts revealed to her the true state of the case.
On her maternalside Mrs. Lincoln was highly connected.
One morning the girl escaped maternal vigilance, and slyly followed after the young woodman, who had gone some distance from the house, and was already hidden from view behind the dense growth of trees and underbrush.
Beyond this is the country of Vastacius, whose son is named Astar, after his maternal grandfather, and this country is not under the dominion of the Tartars.
His youngest maternal brother, named Arabucha, lives with him, and keeps up his mothers court, who was a Christian.
As the small opossum held in pouch maternal Grasps the nutrient organ whence the term mammalia, So the unknown stranger held the wire electric, Sucking in the current.
The views which the Princess de Waradin had upon Louis, made her use every maternal art to domesticate him in her family; but the hurrying vortex into which he was plunged, rendered that impossible.
There was something in her figure and air, which so reminded him of the cherishing mother of his youth, Mrs. Coningsby, that his harassed soul seemed to have regained its home, while he drank in her sweet maternal comfortings.
In passing to her own chamber she met the Emperor, and, in the agitation of her maternal fears, told him all that had passed.
She read the note; and looked with maternal sympathy upon the distressful countenance of the duteous son to whom it addressed so cutting a reproach.
Louis looked from the weeping Marchioness, who hung on him withmaternal tenderness, to the daughter, pale, and trembling, but firm in the faith that nerved his soul.
Louis yielded his pistol to the demand of Stanhope, relaxing his fingers from the iron grasp in which he held it, and trembling from head to foot, he leaned on the sympathising representative of his maternal country.
For another instance of affection almost maternal for the young and helpless larvae, let us take a peep into an ant's nest.
Perfectly heedless of the attitude assumed by the young lady, she was arranging all the details of the affair withmaternal diligence, and had gone so far as to select the persons who were to be present at the ceremony.
To you I would hint, that it is among my maternal relations that a clue to the plot will probably be found.
Mrs. Effingham, with all her maternalfondness and devotion, had been physically unable at times to bear up against the fatigue of protracted watching and anxiety.
All that maternal love and the most tender sisterly affection could give was lavished upon the sufferer.
Mr. Crackemup was a man of delicate ideas, so he euphemised the maternal probabilities.
At the conclusion of this farewell ceremony with Mrs. Teviot, who indeed took a most maternal interest in the whole company, they hied themselves at once to the dining-room.
A natural pride in her unquestioned loveliness had always mingled with the maternal repression of all save the higher aims and qualities which it had been the fond mother’s life-long duty to inculcate.
Mamma Sendel had bestowed her blessing upon the happy pair, and in the ardour of her maternal accolades had nearly extinguished her future son-in-law's left ogle with the wire stalk of an artificial passion-flower.
The blushing damsel appeared in the most elegant attire, and took her place in the maternal drawing-room, amongst the sisters of the enraptured lover.
Must these go forth from my maternal hand To deal their insults thro' a peaceful land, And boast while Freedom bleeds, and Virtue groans, That "ISIS taught Rebellion to her Sons?
The results of maternal care are fully developed, its rich rewards are set forth, and its lesson and its moral are powerfully enforced.
In a few days many of these left the maternal side, fixed their own little tails to the glass, and commenced housekeeping on their own account.
My mother looked after me in that pretty way that children often have; and, on the other hand, my little daughter, now a tiny mite of eight, was almost maternal in her solicitude for me.
James Whidden, thematernal grandfather of Mrs. Shute, was a captain in the army at the taking of Cape Breton in 1745.
In this she alluded to the day when some pious hand would place in her own grave, along with the carrying belt and paddle, this little relic, hallowed by maternal tears.
Marguerite of Orleans, the maternal grandmother of Henri IV.
The Greeks traced the origin of the human race to the maternal Ash; and the Romans regarded the Oak as the progenitor of all mankind.
Marriage is forbidden within the section and in that of the paternal and maternaluncles and aunts.
If they want the child to have pretty teeth its maternal uncle threads a number of grains of rice on a piece of string and hangs them round its neck, so that the teeth may grow like the rice.
Among the Marars of Balaghat [167] the maternal uncle of the bridegroom goes to the village of the bride and brings back with him the bridal party.
It is essential for a man to be properly married at least once, and an old bachelor will sometimes go through the form of being wedded to his maternal uncle's daughter, even though she may be an infant.
If the child's navel is swollen, the maternal uncle will go out for a walk and on his return place his turban over the navel.
In some castes a Brahman is invited at the first cutting of a child's hair, and he repeats texts and blesses the child; the first lock of hair is then cut by the child's maternal uncle, and its head is shaved by the barber.
The women tattoo their bodies after marriage, and the charge for this should always be paid by the maternal uncle's wife, the paternal aunt, or some other similar relation of the girl.
For Bud she possibly had a more tender, maternal feeling on account of his being so delicate.
These, and not the mythical factors that make up so-called maternal impressions, are the causes of deformities and mothers' marks.
If we take up the medical books and the popular science, or rather pseudo-science, and the folk stories of a century ago we find overwhelming evidence for the belief in maternal impressions.
Now the mechanism by which such maternal impression could be transferred to the child is incomprehensible.
Maternal impressions are on the same path and in twenty-five years they will be as great curiosities in serious medical literature as the gastric fauna of two generations ago.
It was set down as due to a maternal mental impression.
The presence of the child and the consequent exercise of maternal instinct does more to bring about the prompt, healthy flow of milk than anything else.
Maternal immunity is evidently due to the occurrence of the disease in some form within the maternal tissues which produces the usual protection against the disease in a briefer time than usual.
When stories of maternal impressions are analyzed it is found that a great many mothers have had forebodings as to their children being marked and their dreads have not come true.
Maternal impression stories grew luxuriantly for the benefit of the news-gatherer in dull seasons.
But if these curious deformities and markings are not due to maternal impressions, what, then, is their cause?
This imposing revelation of maternal solicitude was an instance of what continually happened in connection with the Devil Baby.
We were ready, all the baptismal party, plus myself and the borrowed 'maternal font.
Her ambition was centred in her sons, but Bismarck in his recollections of his childhood missed the influences of maternal tenderness.
In 1135, on the death of his maternal uncle, Henry I.
