I should like to hear what you gentlemen have to say," and Aunt Jessie subsided with a pretty flush on the face that was full of motherly anxiety for her boys.
Certain kind and motherly Cambridge ladies took the neglected child in hand, tamed her rude strength, and subdued her manners.
Mrs. Cameron smoothed Katy's hair as she talked, trying to be motherly and kind, while her heart beat more painfully at thoughts of a Genevra living than it ever had on thoughts of a Genevra dead.
She had a calm, motherly face, gray hair combed smoothly down over her ears, a plain old-fashioned gray dress and an air of being perfectly at home.
The motherly Khadeejeh had at once, with a woman's instinct, divined her husband's heart and confirmed his fainting hope by her firm faith in him.
She walked near me, resigned, with an air of infinite motherly pity; from time to time she repeated: "Ah!
She could pour out to this motherlysoul all that weighed on her own, and was received by her as a beloved daughter of her old age.
I will step in presently, and be the anxious, motherly friend.
Properly speaking, you are as it were her female mentor, the motherly patroness.
And she went on again in her motherly way, delighted at his seeming complacency in listening to her.
She was never happy save with them; she understood their language far better than that of mankind, and looked after them with motherly affection.
In Kadijah's sombre abode Omeyya came to his consciousness of life, nursed with motherly solicitude, and was later initiated into the secrets of her dark arts.
With motherly tenderness she hurries to split the stone by applying the Shamir.
No doubt it was the motherly interest of Mrs. Randolph that impelled her to come softly and look after her; and for once her simple surmises were correct.
She lives in a house that has a lean-to and a great motherly kitchen, where they set the dough down on the hearth in its big wooden cradle, and make cider apple sauce by the barrel, and give you good, honest cheer.
Yonder is a motherlyold lady, going to see a son in Iowa or Nebraska, and stay all winter.
This prediction scarcely troubled me, and since the motherly creature never disturbed me until I had slept a good nine hours by the clock, I do not think she was really distressed on this score.
When I came to myself, I saw a kind, motherly face bending over me, and was aware of a hot taste in my mouth.
One of the women, a fat motherly creature, glanced back.
And so she found herself standing and looking with tearful eyes at the machine she had learned to love, at the little room in which she had worked so long, supporting her invalid father and her little ones--as she motherly called the children.
She saw her half sob and she patted her cheek in a motherly way as she said: "Oh, but I didn't mean to hurt you so.
I know that," said Ella softly, as she clung to the motherly arm at her side.
In a cottage hard by, the venerable Hamilton was passing his declining days, extremely feeble, but solaced by the motherly care of his colleague's wife.
The image of her long-lost darling rose before her in all its winsome beauty, and she gathered up the baby in her lap, more closely to her motherly breast, and pressed it fondly for the sake of the one that was gone.
And," added Mrs. Campbell with an exaggerated drawl, "we who are not of an age to look upon them in a motherly light may not appreciate all those feelings.
That is enough to make any older woman feel it her motherly duty to guard and counsel them, I'm sure," was the calm reply.
The motherly wife of the caretaker had warm food and hot drink waiting them, but Clancy hardly tasted them.
And so, with many motherly injunctions about the hot-water bottle at her feet and the heavy woolen blankets drawn up about her shoulders, Mrs. Walbrough departed.
There was something warm, motherly in the older woman's reply.
A kind word of advice, a look of motherly reluctance to deny me pleasure, and yet of motherly solicitude for my good, would have settled the doubt, and put me in the right way.
And in the privacy of her motherly correspondence Catherine wrote to the Queen of Spain, her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Philip II.
Well, my dear, let an old woman kiss you, and wish you well," whereupon the motherly creature flung her arms round his neck and kissed him heartily.
And, having no mother, he was not ashamed to turn to thismotherly heart for comfort.
She looked at Arthur with humorous eyes, in which also there was the gleam ofmotherly affection and solicitude.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motherly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestral; fatherly; maternal; mother; parent; parental; paternal; patriarchal
