His stars are perpetually crossed by the malignant maternity of an old woman, who persists in calling him "her son Dick."

In this low valley all corn except maize had been gathered in, and Nature was resting, after her labour, with the smile of maternity on her face.

George draws from this inferences of the wisdom of Nature in confiding the duties of maternity to young creatures, whose pulses have not yet lost the impatient leap of early pleasure and energy, and to whom repose and reflection have not yet become the primal necessities of life.

I will back Dewhurst on the maternity for ten.

He wronged their mother by imposing upon her the burdens and cares of maternity without the rights and privileges of a wife.

That is the America which the Fathers conceived, and it is that to which the children look forward,an America which shall displace Ireland and Germany, Massachusetts and Carolina, in the hearts of those who call them mother, with an image of maternity at once more tender and more majestic.

Daily labour makes her lose all her freshness and strength, and maternity in the midst of poverty absorbs even the marrow in her bones.

With dreams of a peaceful family existence, and looking forward to maternity as the great joy and office of the coming years, she brought her husband to Nohant, whose inheritance had been settled by contract upon the children of this marriage.