Some had women with them, wives and mothers and sweethearts; children clung to the women's skirts, unnoticed and frightened into quietness by the sight and sound of their mothers' grief.
He wants to marry you, Joan; they always do if they introduce their mothers to you.
They had all been long enough away from their own mothers to have come to feel the worth of a mother quite touchingly.
The mothers followed them, Mrs. Paterno and Mrs. Vereshchagin in the lead.
This was lucky, for the grass was too wet for the children to play on it, and when mothers and children were crowded on the veranda idle words sometimes changed to cross ones.
The scholars carried the information home, and there were few houses in Rosemont where it was not known that Mr. Emerson's old farmhouse was to be turned into a summer home for weary mothers and ailing babies.
When you go home to-night please ask your father to be making his selection--four mothers with two children apiece.
I remember it; we found Father there talking with a lot of mothers and children.
The mothers and children will be out of doors all the time, so they won't sit around and examine the furniture," laughed Delia.
Delia Watkins, Tom's sister, and Dorothy Smith, a cousin of the Mortons, were going about among the mothers and urging them to let the little ones take part in the games.
She trembled much, And sudden rose full height, and stood An empress in high womanhood: She stood a tower, tall as when Proud Roman mothers suckled men Of old-time truth and taught them such.
Your fathers fell, your mothers wept, Their nude babes clinging to the knee.
The eight little school-mothers at Sunshine Lodge wanted no one good thing that could add to the joys of life.
The eyes of the rest of the school-mothers followed her, and Jane's face grew first white and then pink.
I am taking a house at the seaside--a very nice country house for the holidays; and I want to know if all the school-mothers can come and stay with Ralph and me in my house.
He will be my gift to the little girl who mothers my boy.
My bestest mothers are my naughty one and my goodest one.
If you can prove to me that such an action on my part is necessary, I will gladly give not two, but twenty, ponies to Ralph's little mothers in this school.
It seemed to Harriet that the eyes of all the school-mothers watched them, that Robina, in particular, followed them about with those grey eyes of hers.
The eight little mothers shall join Ralph and me at Sunshine Lodge in a fortnight.
But ought we not to leave fathers and mothers and wives and children, all, all, for the sacred cause of Calvinism; nay, must we not suffer all things?
We would here remark that so long as Britain can produce such heroic mothers her sons will ever uphold her flag.
Mothers refused to be comforted, their darling boys being torn from their homes.
Fathers shook hands with their sons, and bade them farewell, whilemothers embraced them; and then the bands struck up "Cheer!
Hundreds of them cried for joy, to think that the day of vengeance had dawned--that they would be able to wipe out the stain of insulted mothers and ruined sisters.
In the midst of this terrible scene, mothers were seen lifting their infants above their heads in the water, holding them up until they were exhausted, then sinking beneath the waves.
These things come about, ma'am, without fathers and mothers having anything to do with them till too late.
Fathers and mothers such as these often remain serenely unaware while some dangerous malady or injurious habit is fastening itself upon a favorite child.
In the last analysis it is the mothers of a nation who direct that nation's destiny.
Her own contemporaries were sober mothersby this time; girls with not a tithe of her charms, or her wit, having made good matches, and now claiming precedence over the spinster who but lately had derided and outshone them.
Officers were eager enough to read it; mothers and sisters at home must have sickened over it.
A better feeling generally exists, and a keener sense of social duty is coming over the Europeans, so that a good many have really married the mothers of their children, a thing which fifty years ago was never heard of.
Passing to lighter subjects, Dutch girls are now breaking loose from the stiffness and espionage in which their mothers were brought up, and this is without doubt in a large measure due to the introduction of sport.
Dutch fathers are kind, and the mothers are indulgent, and among the poorer classes especially family affection is very great.
Our country, our lives, the honor of our wives and mothers and daughters, the tender flesh of our innocent babes, were at stake.
Children are left to the care of their mothers until they are weaned; then they are put into a general nursery, under the care of special nurses or care-takers, who are both men and women.
The following were some of the mottoes on the Lincoln banners: [Westward the star of empire takes its way; The girls link on to Lincoln, their mothers were for Clay.
If our mothers discovered our wet clothes they would whip us.
No mourning mothers come to-day Whose hopeless eyes forget to pray: They each hold high the o'erflowing urn, And bravely to the altar turn.
Marie, on her part, speaking to the women and mothers and children, found a word of affection and solicitude for all, and proved that like her son she had a perfect acquaintance with the sorrows and needs of each one.
Mothers of sixteen-year-old sons will understand and appreciate these apparently insignificant details.
The children of elderly mothers show a tendency to superiority throughout.
Sweet domestic days, when girls stayed at home and helped their mothers and let father support the family!
The National Congress of Mothers discerned one of its functions when it said: "The time has come when every nation through a special department should provide data concerning infants which may be used by mothers everywhere.
Mothers of the World Leaning over a tiled parapet, we looked down at the streak of street so far below.
I leive you to ghesse whether the daughters wipe or the mothers was tartest.
Oh, mammy darling, what different sorts of mothers do crop up when you think of it!
They contrive that these sons shall pass through youth to early manhood without a suspicion that even mothershave human weaknesses.
For she chose this opportunity to enlarge upon the duties of young married women towards their husbands' parents, their mothers especially.
The mothers of the boys might have been more upset, but they felt relieved to think that Dick would be with the lads.
Well, those mothers deserve the front seats every time," said Jack.
During that time the Rover boys heard from their mothers in New York that their fathers were expected home in about ten days.
All seemed to be talking at once, and boys, fathers and uncles shook hands over and over again, while the girls and their mothers came in for innumerable hugs and kisses.
When the train rolled into the Grand Central Terminal at Forty-second Street the Rovers found two automobiles awaiting them, and in the turn-outs were the three mothers of the boys and girls.
I know it would upset them a good deal, and maybe they would think they'd have to write to their mothers about it.
It had always seemed to her an appalling responsibility to assume the forming of one of these impressionable little souls; she had often wondered tremblingly at the lightness with which many mothers assumed it.
She soon turned to look at the doll, which Miss Judy hastened to give her to divert her attention,--looking at it as tender little mothers look at afflicted babies.
They could have their largest bedrooms altered into beehives of cubicles for single women, and stick little families of mothers and children into the smaller rooms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mothers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
