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Example sentences for "mother was"

  • I told you in it, That my mother was not a papist.

  • My mother was out of town when I returned there.

  • My mother was, indeed, what the world calls a very charming, agreeable woman.

  • Lord Glenmorris received it with proper indifference, so far as my mother was concerned; but expressed much pain at my leaving him so soon.

  • My mother was convicted of felony for a certain petty theft scarce worth naming, viz.

  • My mother was as sensible of this as I; and, upon the whole, we knew not what to do.

  • Moreover, the long established fame of the Grand-I-Vert, dating from 1795, made it a venerable spot in the eyes of the common people.

  • Though everybody knew that the family had no principles and no scruples, nothing was ever said against the morals of the Grand-I-Vert.

  • Presently the avenue merges into an alley of acacias, which leads to an iron railing made in the days when iron-workers fashioned those slender filagrees which are not unlike the copies set us by a writing-master.

  • The girl's mother was a lady of means and fashion, a member of one of the exclusive card-clubs of that town, and an inveterate player.

  • Mother was always a hardworking little woman, and raised a large family.

  • She was a good Christian, my mother was; and just before she died, she sent everybody out of the room so as to have a talk with me.

  • Julia's mother was helpless in a great wheeled chair, with blankets and pillows carelessly disposed about her, and her eager eyes bright in a face chiselled by pain.

  • The children's mother was a plump, handsome little woman with bright, flashing eyes, dimples, and lovely little hands covered with rings.

  • Julia's mother was in the kitchen when she and Anna got home, her dark hair still damp from brushing, her thin wrists no whiter than her snowy ruffles.

  • Emeline's mother was an overworked and shrill-voiced woman, whose personality drove from the Shotwell Street house whatever small comfort poverty and overcrowding and dirt left in it.

  • While my mother was living I never cared to have a stepmother.

  • My mother was born in Ohio near the Pennsylvania border, but was reared in Carroll County, Ohio.

  • My mother was in the home at the time Sister Barrett was healed of erysipelas.

  • I had called the Methodist Church my mother; and now to think that my mother was treating me in this way, made me feel very bad.

  • My mother's mother was of German descent, and could speak the German language; but she died when mother was but a small child.

  • They are no countrymen of mine, O Montezuma,' I answered, 'though my mother was one of them.

  • My mother was standing by the open door, her stately shape framed as it were in the flowers of a white creeping shrub that grew upon the wall of the old house.

  • My mother was by birth their chieftainess, the last of a long line, and I am her only child, moreover my father is their emperor.

  • My mother was right," he thought; "the baron hates that miserable viscount mortally.

  • He knew only too well that his mother was right, and yet it wounded him cruelly to hear her speak in this style.

  • My mother was pleased to put in a gentle word for me: I know not what it was: but thus she was answered--My dear, this is the most provoking thing in the world in a woman of your good sense!

  • This, as my mother was pleased to tell me, being the last persuasory effort that is to be attempted, I will be particular in the account of it as my head and my heart will allow it to be.

  • Svein's mother was Astrid, a daughter of King Svein Forkbeard.

  • Ragnhild's mother was Thorny, a daughter of Klakharald king in Jutland, and a sister of Thrye Dannebod who was married to the Danish king, Gorm the Old, who then ruled over the Danish dominions.

  • Otto's mother was Ragna, a daughter of Earl Orm Eilifson and Sigrid, a daughter of Earl Fin Arnason.

  • The one thing certain was, that not the faintest trace, in feature or expression, of Eunice's mother was to be seen in Eunice herself.

  • But I can remember now how sad my mother was at times--it almost seemed as though she had a premonition.

  • John Hodder's mother was a widow, and to her, in the white, gabled house which had sheltered stern ancestors, he travelled in the June following his experience.

  • Mother was against it,--said I was too good-looking to leave home.

  • When I came home, I went straight into the parlour, where my mother was sitting by herself.

  • His presence always brought joy with it into our family, for my mother was uplifted, and I had so few who cared for me, or for whom I cared, that I felt rather gratified at seeing him.

  • My mother was a burning and a shining light, in the community of Scottish worthies, and in the days of her virginity had suffered much in the persecution of the saints.

  • She was 'is only child and 'er mother was dead.

  • And 'er mother was as fine a columbine as ever lived, she was that refined and steadfast.

  • Oh, you are going to say that my mother was different.

  • My mother was a tender-hearted parent, and full of anxiety in behalf of an only child.

  • My mother was of Dutch extraction on both sides, her father having been a Blauvelt, and her mother a Van Busser.

  • They did not seem displeased, however, for the family name of my mother was good, and no one need have been ashamed of affinity to her, on her own account.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bowing; ball player; being allowed; being cast; captain over; central office; chemical tanker; gazing down; healing power; independent company; mother and; mother dear; mother died; mother goddess; mother had; mother told; mother was; mother will; mother would; mushroom sauce; negro troops; noncommissioned officer; not enough; porcupine quills; relative term; will engage