Rowe likewise adopts it in his "Ambitious Stepmother" "And send a snake to every vulgar breast.

Dad is going totoget me a stepmother!

Rowena, that evil stepmother, caused Vortimer, her husband's son, to be poisoned, by reason of the hatred she bore him, since he chased Hengist from the realm.

Then followed the danger of a stepmother.

Keep them to be masters here In my old house; and bring no stepmother Upon them.

They come into a house: they are all strife And hate to any child of the dead wife.... Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Elfrida, his stepmother, had a son, Ethelred, seven years old, whom she attempted to raise to the throne: she affirmed that Edgar’s marriage with the mother of Edward was exposed to insuperable objections; and as she had possessed great credit with her husband, she had found means to acquire partisans, who seconded all her pretensions.

No girl of spirit gets on well with her stepmother.

Heliodorus, lib. 1. brings in Dameneta, stepmother to Cnemon, "whom she [5022]saw in his scarves, rings, robes, and coronet, quite mad for the love of him."

Be that as it may, this Ascanius, wherever born and of whatever motherit is at any rate agreed that his father was Æneasseeing that Lavinium was over-populated, left that city, now a flourishing and wealthy one, considering those times, to his mother or stepmother, and built himself a new one at the foot of the Alban mount, which, from its situation, being built all along the ridge of a hill, was called Alba Longa.

" The two children, however, had not gone to sleep for very hunger, and so they overheard what the stepmother said to their father.

Not long afterward there was again great scarcity in every corner of the land; and one night the children overheard their stepmother saying to their father, "Everything is again consumed; we have only half a loaf left, and then the song is ended: the children must be sent away.

" Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed, and gave them each a slice of bread, which was still smaller than the former piece.

With fiery eloquence she pictured forth Each circumstance of that atrocious deed, Her own oppress'd and miserable life, The prosperous traitor's insolent demeanor, The perils threat'ning Agamemnon's race From her who had become their stepmother, Then in his hand the ancient dagger thrust, Which often in the house of Tantalus With savage fury rag'd,and by her son Was Clytemnestra slain.

She had one when her stepmother died, and when her uncle died; and Mrs. Crummles and myself have had them on the anniversary of the Phenomenon's birthday, and our wedding-day, and occasions of that description; so that, in fact, it is hard to get a good one.

She'd learn, no doubt, in her stepmother's own good time.

But supposing he had asked you to marry himhe wasn't nice, but you are older than I, and if you had married him you would have become, in a way, my stepmother.

But what a charming stepmother!

"Miss Ann had eight darkies and told her stepmother, 'Don't you put your hand on em.'

To Dora W. Dora, i.e., Dorothy Wordsworth, the poet's daughter, who married Edward Quillinan, and thus became stepmother of Rotha Q of the next sonnet.

"Well, not the way Ben Blunt's stepmother did, but she wanted to know what I meant by it and all like that.

He wished he might have a cruel stepmother of his own, and so perhaps be raised to this eminence of infamy.

The Wilbur twin sickeningly guessed this would be the cruel stepmother.

"Your little guests are leaving," said the stepmother.

" "Poor motherless pet!" murmured the stepmother, helplessly.