333 examples of motherly in sentences

The visitor is at a losswhen suddenly the round, motherly face changes.

With mistaken, motherly kindness, she tried to put the subject out of my thoughts.

The door was pushed open and Mrs. West's broad shoulders and motherly face appeared.

" "Dear child, you have had trouble in your life, haven't you?" replied the motherly voice.

You will see for yourselves that this simple, natural, motherly instruction of babyhood cannot be transplanted bodily into the primary school, where the teacher has fifty or sixty children who are beyond the two most fruitful years which the kindergarten demands.

" With an odd, grave look, that rather startled Kitty, Jack vanished, to return presently with a comfortable cup of tea and a motherly old lady to help repair damages and soothe her by the foolish little purrings and pattings so grateful to female nerves after a flurry.

"She might have done everything to make you love, and respect, and admire her, and been a happy, useful, motherly, old soul; but she didn't choose to, and now she must take the consequences.

"Any message?" Lady Bannerdale looked at him, her brow wrinkled with motherly anxiety.

" "Were you ill when you left your home?" inquired Mrs. Montrose, looking at the young man with motherly sympathy.

It was the absence of that sympathy, that devotion, that watchful care over every step he might take, that motherly instinct that ought to have felt his presence though her eyes had been blinded; it was the absence of all this that filled his heart with heaviness.

Of what use were these things, if motherly recognition was to be denied him?

Either course seems equally unpardonable at times to motherly jealousy, and Lady Mary was half vexed and half amused to find herself not exempt from this weakness.

She put a motherly arm about the slim body that leaned against her, looking up into the pale young face with eyes of kindly criticism.

So Jeanie was left entirely to Avery's motherly care while the golden days slipped by.

She became more and more like a motherly friend to the young people surrounding her.

To Aunt Tipping the dead were indeed as little children, and inspired her with a strange motherly tenderness.

Scrupulously clean, in a spotless white apron and colored head-handkerchief, her round face beaming with motherly kindness, she was picturesquely beautiful.

I found the matron even more motherly than the president was fatherly.

He knew nothing whatever of women; this one had seemed motherly to him, and it was a mother such as Madame Ewans he would have liked to have.

At length, weak, and thin, and pallid, he awoke from what seemed a dream, and found himself being nursed by Mrs. Bedwin, Mr. Brownlow's motherly old house-keeper, and visited constantly by the doctor.

She had no place to gae that nicht, so I arranged wi' the dresser, a gude, motherly body, to gie her a lodging for the nicht, and next day I went mysel' to see her faithera respectable foreman he turned oot to be.

The motherly and auspicious.

She was a dear, good, motherly woman, all whose geese were certainly counted to be swans.

The cook even urged, with an earnestness worthy of a motherly landlady, several dishes, but his browned potatoes and roast beef claimed our attention.

" To this Charles agreed, so M. L'Abbe undertook to show them the pictures at the Louvre, and Anne and Madame de Bellaise were the only occupants of the carriage that conveyed them to the great old convent of Poissy, the girl enjoying by the way the comfort of the kindness of a motherly woman, though even to her there could be no confiding of the terrible secret that underlay all her thoughts.

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