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her and mother
If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.
After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.
She wished that she could talk to her mother about it.
Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.
But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.
`` Sally '', admonished her mother, `` you've got all evening to visit with Dan.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.
It had been five days too late before he learned that she'd gone through the wedding ceremony in a semitrance of laudanum, administered by her mother.
she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.
Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.
Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.
Her mother called her Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning `` pussycat ''.
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.
Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.
Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.
His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

her and is
He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.
The artist looks at an ankle, a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes drop away and he sees her as she really is.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??
At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.
And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.
The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.
His sailing vessel is guided by fate to the shores of his own country at a time when Sibylla's domain is overrun by the armies of one of her rejected suitors.
usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.
The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.
Her clothes, her hair, everything about her is both graceful and simple.
It is not the same dress as the one on her manikin in the Smithsonian.
She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.
In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.
This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

her and dying
The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.
She was never considered legitimate and, when the king was dying, no one took her as a serious contender for the crown.
Maria's sister, Elizabeth Branwell ( 1776 – 1842 ), moved to the parsonage, initially to nurse her dying sister, but she spent the rest of her life there raising the children.
Artemis saved the infant Atalanta from dying of exposure after her father abandoned her.
Nora admits that she did forge the signature, so as to spare her dying father further worry about her ( she was pregnant, poor, and had a seriously ill husband ).
Bowman contacts his former girl friend, Betty Fernandez, appearing on her television screen by manipulating the tube, and in a more physical way to his elderly mother, who lies dying.
Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".
Gertrude falls and, in her dying breath, announces that she has been poisoned.
If it is Hel she is presumably greeting the dying Baldr as he comes to her realm.
On 17 September 1179, when Hildegard died, her sisters claimed they saw two streams of light appear in the skies and cross over the room where she was dying.
Following another stint in jail, during Superman's absence from Earth to investigate the remains of Krypton, he is released on a string of technicalities and seduces a dying widow in order to marry her and inherit her fortune.
* In " Body Banks ", he is ordered by Network 23 board member Julia Formby to accompany her to the Plantagenet residence, so he can load the dying family matriarch's brain patterns into a computer as he had done with Edison Carter's.
Just before Edward VI's death, Mary was summoned to London to visit her dying brother.
The Cardassian ancient ritual of shri-tal allows a dying person to reveal his or her secrets to the rest of the family, for use against their enemies.
As he lies there, dying, Tieran transfers his mind into her for his own goal of re-conquering Ilara, prompting Kes to steal a shuttlecraft to go to Ilara.
In 2002, as a result of her friend Kent Sexton dying from scleroderma, she interrupted work on her new album C ' mon C ' mon to record the traditional hymn " Be Still, My Soul ," to be played at his funeral.
He was sent into the military abroad to be away from her, and while gone, the girl suffered numerous misfortunes partly as a consequence of her unhappy marriage, finally dying penniless and disgraced, and with a natural ( i. e., illegitimate ) daughter, who becomes the ward of the Colonel.

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