Jim was taken aback at her failure to glow with his success; and when she said, "I hate to leave momma and poppa," he writhed.
Jim was glad to escape, even on so gruesome an errand, and now when he kissed Kedzie good-by he had to kiss momma as well.
I'll take Momma away from that old scoundrel so fast it'll make his head swim!
I couldn't hear what started it, but finely it woke me up and I listened, and Momma was cryin' and Poppa was swearin'.
The moon was up, and the river was so bright you could hardly look at it, and Momma stood there with her arms 'way out like she was on the Cross, or something.
By and by Momma kind of broke like somebody had hit her, then she began to cry again and to walk up and down wringin' her hands.
Momma went to the front door, and it was locked, and she stood a long, long while before she could bring herself to knock.
Well, I jumped into my shirt and pants and slid down the rain pipe and ran along the street, and there sure enough was Momma walkin' as fast as she could.
Momma replied to the effect that she wouldn't mind his going anywhere else alone, but this was important.
So I merely bowed with what magnificence I could command and filed it, so to speak; and walked to the other side of the deck, leaving poppa to his conscience and momma and his Aunt Caroline.
Momma looked as if she wished she had the courage to ask Miss Callis to explain.
I know we did because momma took down the names, but I fancy they couldn't have differed much from the general landscape, for I don't remember a thing about them.
When it was accomplished she looked at momma sideways and down her nose, precisely in the manner of the late Mr. Du Maurier's ladies in Punch, in the same state of mind.
Momma and I, looking at our fellow travellers, at once decided that the Misses Bingham had been a little hasty.
So far, momma said she had every reason to be pleased with the effect on her mind.
As they launched to conversation momma and I glanced at each other with mutual congratulation.
Momma at once gave up her soul to the young St. John, having had an engraving of it ever since she was a little girl, and the Senator went solemnly from canvas to canvas on tip-toe with a mind equally open to Job and the Fornarina.
Momma wishes me to state that the word Italy, in any language, will for ever be associated in her mind with the journey from Genoa to Pisa.
Momma said she thought I ought to have the experience, because, though I'd been a good deal in society in Chicago, she didn't consider that that in itself was enough.
Lately he has devoted himself to politics; he is in Congress now, and at the next election momma particularly wishes him to run for senator.
Momma was a Miss Wastgaggle, of Boston, and she was teaching school in Chicago when poppa met her.
The 'dear ones' read so sympathetically that momma said she knew we could depend upon Mrs. Portheris to take me round and make me enjoy myself, and she wanted to cable that I was coming.
We have several of the finest in America in our city; and we ourselves attend a very large one, erected last year, the Congregational--though momma has taken up Theosophy considerably lately.
Gladys dear, momma wouldn't like you to use that kind of language.
Yes, momma darling; but you won't say that any more till we get home, now will you?
Momma won't need much looking after--the way she is.
Momma and Hilda come in all the time, and you don't say so.
I don't like these pink shorts Momma put on me this morning.
Momma had been crying, even though she was smiling bravely now.
There was the taste of the sick green flowers that Momma kept in the window box and, just for a side course, a little bit of the dirt, too.
Momma was cooking doste, and that to Oley smelled best of all.
And then, suddenly, there was a loud, snarling splat--and Momma screamed from the doorway.
So the cause of the short that Momma and Poppa yakked so loudly about was never attributed to Oley's actions, but only to "How could a needle have gotten from your sewing machine into this lamp cord, Alice?
Your Momma and Poppa will be in to see you in just a minute.
It was a week later in the kitchen, when Momma dropped a giant version of the neatle on the floor, that his information file in this area increased again.
You'll just have to turn in, as Momma says, and leave me to look after things.
Momma thinks the man is clever, but, of course, he isn't, and she will find it out sooner or later.
Julius had just rejoined me with his pockets stuffed full of cartridges, and had murmured, "Momma and the others are all right; they promised not to come out.
I must run away and leave you for a few minutes to tell Momma the good news, and arrange to have some food prepared for you.
I guess the first thing you'll do after you've got Momma out of her cabin will be to get my breakfast ready, and don't you forget it!
But that somebody must not be you, Mr Leigh; you have no right to interfere, you know, and I am sure that Momma would never tolerate anything of the kind from you.
And I wouldn't speak to Momma either, if I were you; it is not worth while.
I am so glad you are here, for Momma is in her cabin and can't get out; and Jule and I haven't been strong enough to help her.
I will talk very seriously to Momma and see if I cannot open her eyes to the very serious wrong and injury that we are all doing to the boy by petting and pampering him, and humouring his every whim, however outrageous it may be.
That's just how my daddy and I've been ever since my poor momma died years and years ago.
You see, when my daddy built this for my momma he hadn't a pile of dollars.
He's lookin' ahead fer something he's needing, and his pop or his momma are the folks to pass it along to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "momma" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
