169 examples of step-mothers in sentences

" "You had four step-mothers before you were born," said Marjorie seriously, "and one own mother and then another step-mother.

Girls don't have so many step-mothers nowadays.

"I wouldn't want to have so many step-mothers as you had, and I'd rather be named Marjorie than Experience.

That was queerer than having so many step-mothers.

After all, her step-mother was a woman quite old enough to manage her own affairs.

" The girl looked at her step-mother in horror, half believing that this must be some cruel joke.

She seemed to know at once what had happened and her gaze flew to her step-mother, laden with bitter reproach, before she sped up the stairs to Aunt Amy's room.

Even as it was she had more to recommend her than her step-mother.

Esther, absorbed in the care of her step-mother, was not even aware that Aunt Amy noticed her growing listlessness, her heavy eyes, her fits of brooding.

Mrs. Kinloch looked hurt, and said that this unusual conduct, owing partly to the common and wicked prejudice against step-mothers, had wounded her sorely, and she hoped Mildred would do her the simple justice of returning to a mother who loved her, and would make every sacrifice for her happiness.

They may kill the child's body, in trying, like that still unhung clergyman in Western New York, who whipped his three-year-old son to death for refusing to repeat a prayer to his step-mother.

Though no mention was made of the matter, at home, in her hearing, she could not fail to know what was going on; but she had now sufficient knowledge of her step-mother and her guardian to be aware that her influence would not be of the least avail in changing their purpose.

It was a necessity, because the colonies of America had attained that lawful age in the development of all the elements of national existence, which claims the right to stand by itself, and cannot any longer be led by a child's leading-strings, be the hand which leads it a mother's or a step-mother's.

So filling her basket in great glee, she thanked the little men and gave them each her hand, and then ran home to take her step-mother what she wished for.

to me thou hast proved indeed the worst of step-mothers; endowed me with wishes insatiate, and sunk me in never-ending degradation!"

" "Are you joking, or in earnest?" inquired my mother, "And if in earnest, pray whom do you refer to?" "You will soon find it to be most solid, substantial earnest," rejoined my father, "for I must this very evening write a letter to Mrs. Chesbury, senior, the step-mother of whom you have heard me speak, inviting her to spend the summer with us.

The only unbroken outside influence which directed and stimulated him in his ambitions was that coming first from his mother, then from his step-mother.

Was she Sylvia's mother, or step-mother, and if she was the former, didn't she act dreadful giddy for the mother of grown children?

Of course she married the prince, and she, her husband and the good little dwarfs lived happily ever after, but the cruel step-mother came to a bad end, and no one was even sorry for her.

Mrs. Nicholas, in her horror at the general wickedness of the Caldigates almost reconciled herself to her step-mother, and even Mrs. Daniel began to fear that a rash thing was being done.

Vanoc Prince of the Cornavians married for his second wife Cartismand, Queen of the Brigantians, a woman of an imperious spirit, who proved a severe step-mother to the King's daughter Gwendolen, betrothed to Yvor, the Prince of the Silurians.

Jac. Step-mothers Have many eyes, to find a way to mischief, Though blind to goodness.

Us do want no step-mothers; us do want all the love, the wold mother and the little maid.

She strongly suspected that her step-mother was in league with him, though she had no direct proof of this.

Thus strangely remote is the world of Shakespeare's latest period; and it is peopled, this universe of his invention, with beings equally unreal, with creatures either more or less than human, with fortunate princes and wicked step-mothers, with goblins and spirits, with lost princesses and insufferable kings.

169 examples of  step-mothers  in sentences