22 Verbs to Use for the Word stepmothers

I received certain warnings, but without them I could see that the man was all wrong, and I told my stepmother what I thought of him.

Dora had asked her stepmother to accompany her, but as that good lady seldom made calls, and disliked long drives, and could not see why it was at all necessary for her to go, Dora went alone.

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

" "I thought you liked the new stepmother," he said.

And someone told folks in the house and out comes Harvey D.'s stepmother that he got married to, and Grandpa Gideon and Cousin Juliana that happened to be there, and all the gypsies rushed up the hill and everyone made the vilest scene and I had to give back this lovely baby to the gypsy woman that claimed it.

At the age of five, while his father was absent from home, courting his stepmother, he heroically extinguished a fire of blazing flax, which would otherwise have consumed the house, and while he was smarting from his burns was cruelly beaten by an elder brother, who misapprehended the case of the little boy, very much as the world did that of the man he became.

His love-making gave me a chance of defying my stepmother, and I rather enjoyed baulking her plans to keep Archie and me apart.

Anna Iurievna knew that her husband despised her stepmother; that he detested her as the cause of all the grief which they had had to endure through her, and most of all, on account of the injustice she was guilty of toward her brother, the general's son.

" "But you are wasting time, dear," explained her stepmother gently.

"Yes; she's my governess, and had to go to her dying mother, and I hope she gets a cruel stepmother that will be harsh to her childish sports, like that Mrs. Blunt was.

When at last they all sang "Bringing in the Sheaves," and were ably dismissed by Lyman Teaford, who could be as solemn here as he was gay in a parlour with his flute, Winona took the Merle twin across the room to greet the Whipple stepmother and the Whipple girl.

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

But she was obliged to go into England to nurse her sick stepmother, and after her departure the place had no attractions for me, and I left Ireland.

She never could have suspected it, but there, in that boat, sat her future stepmother in cap and apron!his own future stepmother-in-law!

Such are certain recurring terms of phrase like, But out and spak their stepmother.

" The King's son commanded them to tie the stepmother and her daughter to the tail of a horse, and to hunt them over mountain and rock till nothing was left of them but their ears and a tuft of hair.

You'll be trying to make me believe next that you want a stepmother.

Or that, as Pliny complains, "Nature may be rather accounted a stepmother, than a mother unto us, all things considered: no creature's life so brittle, so full of fear, so mad, so furious; only man is plagued with envy, discontent, griefs, covetousness, ambition, superstition."

I set forth without warning my stepmother, but left a letter apprising her of my plans.

Instead, Marion and her little brother exchanged glances and then simultaneously a grin overspread their faces, while Marion said in a mirthful tone: "Oh, Francis, hear father trying to talk like mother!" Robert has lately acquired a stepmother.

But finding it easy to delegate the care of his children to school principals and hospitable friends, he concluded that he had nothing to gain and much comfort to lose by adding a stepmother to his establishment; and, after some time, it became the custom to say of Mr. Lind that the memory of his first wife kept him single.

The King's people brushed the stepmother aside and led the maiden with golden hair from the stove, tried on the shoe, which fitted as though moulded to the foot.

22 Verbs to Use for the Word  stepmothers