Besides its main purpose of mothering the infantry, the new system of contact patrols was found to be useful in dealing with enemy movements directly behind the front line.
If, later, a further advance be made, the low-flying contact machines again play their part of mothering the infantry.
Tarbell Introduction A more illuminating interpretation of the settlement idea than Miss Furman's stories "Sight to the Blind" and "Mothering on Perilous" does not exist.
Honor Carmody got to her feet and stood looking after him, the odd mothering look in her square child's face.
Again he had to bear the mothering of her understanding eyes.
It was going to be fine for him at Stanford, Honor's motheringthought raced ahead.
There was something intensely pitiful about this lad to her mothering young heart, for all his poise and pride.
Then this Madonna of the Range goes proudly to the mothering of her first-born.
The mothering of a lion cub has its disadvantages, and thereafter her milk of human kindness overflowed no more.
The sun of her smile was like a clean breath in the stivy den; and, behold, she took Robaccia by the hand and lifted her up, she encircled her with a mothering arm, and drew her close to her own breast.
Love itself seemed to have spread its strong wings in the room, and the others gazed astonished until they saw her flinch, as Roger crumpled up and fell on her breast, and visibly force herself to be all soft, mothering curves to him.
She was glad he had come, for he looked interesting, but she hoped he would not interrupt her warm comfortable occupation of mothering Mr. Philip.
On still another day, while they idled between scenes, she talked to him about salaries and contracts, again with her important air of mothering him.
Mark was no mere bravo when he turned partisan to the lad Jehan, and took him within the pale of his mothering wit.
Cooped as they had been within the mothering arms of the Church, peril found them utterly impotent when self-reliance and natural instinct were needed to shepherd them from danger.
An old English name for this Sunday isMothering Sunday.
Her years of mothering had given her an almost supernatural intuition as to causes, and effects.
The admission of another to the parsonage mothering hurt her.
Lola Brandt prowled about me in a wistful, mothering way, showing me a fresh side of her nature.
She has become to me the mere great mothering creature on whom I have depended for custard and the removal of crumbs and creases from under my body, and for support to my tottering footsteps.
Although she did not say so, Bobs and Lena May knew that their mothering sister was eager to return to their Long Island home that she might see Gwendolyn before her departure.
He was very glad to have an opportunity to talk with a young woman whose interest in welfare work paralleled his own, especially as he had one rather wayward boy whom he believed needed mothering more than all else.
But all that day, try as she might to be cheerful, the mothering heart of Gloria was filled with anxiety concerning her two charges.
Instinctively he supplied her place in Olivier's life: and it was a touching sight to see the awkward German hap unwittingly on certain of the delicate attentions and little mothering ways of Antoinette.
Christophe used to see her in the courtyard mothering the children of a family living in the house.
It is the way with maids, the nearer they are tomothering the less they wish to hear of it.
It left him the helpless and unprotesting victim of that run-over maternal instinct of mine which took wayward joy in mothering what it couldn't master.
The thought of a fat spinster fussing over a French poodle or a faded blond forlornly mothering a Pekinese chow gives me a feeling that is at least first cousin to sea-sickness.
And a hint of mothering contentment stole sweetly over him behind this shadowy yet genuine consolation.
The Wave might fall indeed, but it would fall into the mothering sea where levels must be restored again, secure upon unshakable foundations.
He had an absurd yet delightful feeling as though Tony was their child, and the perfectly natural way she took him under her mothering wing stirred an admiring pity in him.
Into the mothering sea, as he sank back, the memory of the light went with him.
It was impossible to give up any room, even a hotel room, into which she had put her sweet and mothering personality.
For behind the mothering words lurked, he knew, the other self that any minute would return.
Even her mothering became exasperating; it was so unforced and natural; it seemed still so right that she should show solicitude for his physical welfare.
It remained and grew and filled his heart, and all that day it kept close by him--her love, her comfort, her mothering compassion.
Meanwhile, in the act of protecting, mothering him she must use pain, as to a learning child.
He was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinelymothering him.
They emerged from that mothering background and returned into it again.
These three fundamental mothering occupations in Canada nourish and sustain all the others, such as commerce, manufacturing, transportation and the professions.
Ruined by too much motheringand fathering" is a verdict we would frequently render if we knew the facts.
You get into the way of nursing them, and comforting them, and playing with them, and mothering them, until you feel that they belong to you.
I have pretended to satisfy myself by mothering other people's children; but it was cruel comfort, and often only made my heart to ache the more.
Shocked, startled and filled with a poignant mothering pity, Kathleen struggled with a longing to take him in her arms and comfort him as the mother was the little wailing child upstairs.
The little maid repaid him with a passionate love and a quaint mothering care tender and infinitely comforting to the lonely man.
Without the courage, as yet, to hear the men ridicule her weakness, she nevertheless contrived to place a hundred little comforting things in Barney's path, as he went his rounds of mothering his sad little wild thing from the hills.
Owns my mothering Earth A piper who pipes so alluringly Of beauty that is, of beauty to be?
