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.

`` 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 ).

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;

Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, nor would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill-conceived figure of her benighted ancestor.

His presence would have interfered with her duty.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.

He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

It bothered her that she probably would never know.

He would tell her not to pry into grownups' affairs -- as though she were a little kid like Elena!!

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

Gandalf's rebuke of Frodo for wishing death upon Gollum in The Fellowship of the Ring is obliquely attributed in The Silmarillion to Gandalf's having been a disciple of Nienna in Valinor ( Chapter 2, " Valaquenta "): " Wisest of the Maiar was Olórin ... is ways took him often to the house of Nienna, and of her he learned pity and patience.

An old woman appeared, the last of the Vestals, who proceeded to rebuke Serena and called down upon her all just punishment for her act of impiety.

The reader is treated to an early exposition of her violent temper ( inherited from her father ) when she rescues Mary-Lou, a smaller, weaker girl in her form, who is being held under water by the malicious Gwendoline Mary Lacey, and delivers a stinging rebuke to Gwendoline with the flat of her hand.

Eleanor Winsor Leach claimed, in her Lacanian analysis " Gendering Clodius ", that the frequency and intensity of Cicero's word plays on the cognomen Pulcher (" handsome, lovely ") a certain fascination masquerading under rebuke.

She could not concentrate at prayer time and barked like a dog when her father would rebuke her.

A majority seems to believe that the Fragments are authentic and represent a private letter written by a highly educated woman, who never intended her stern rebuke to be read by anyone but her son.

This investigation led to a very public rebuke of Frey by Oprah Winfrey who had previously endorsed Frey's book as part of her Oprah's Book Club.

On her deathbed, Adeline delivers her first rebuke to her husband: " ans un moment, tu seras libre, et tu pourras faire une baronne Hulot.

Although the character dated the doorman Ribamar, Jimenez had a strong chemistry with Falabella, who played Caco, and funny, sexual innuendos between the two were common, as well as the exchange of insults between the characters, as Edileuza would rebuke Caco for his dishonesty and he would tease her for being poor and a maid.

Sita does not rebuke him for fear that it may bring dishonor to her parents.

As he takes her hand, she lets it rest indifferently in his, " neither consenting nor resisting-a thing "-refusing either to return the gesture or to rebuke it.

After approaching a girl who had been rumored to have " gang banged " the entire football team only for her to humiliate and rebuke him publically, Brian and Wendy come to Pee Wee's aid and help him hire a stripper from the local carnival to play the part of " Graveyard Gloria.

When she finished speaking, the Moderator, James Whyte, formally presented her with church reports on housing and poverty, which was interpreted in the press as a polite rebuke.

In the song, the female protagonist's lover has mistakenly called her by his ex-girlfriend's name, " Susan ", and receives a harsh rebuke for his mistake.