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.

Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.

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.

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.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

`` The place had no sink or washbasin, only a bathtub '', his mother discovered when she visited him.

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

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 mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

His image of the Virgin had always been that of a young woman, even as had his memory of his mother.

Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.

and they had told their mother about the tumbles.

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

My brother and mother got no value from their religion when they died.

`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Aga Khan I's mother later moved to India where she died in 1851.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

In 1180 the Emperor Manuel died and was succeeded by his ten year old son Alexios II, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Maria.

As his mother crossed the threshold of the door on her return, the youth died, and " all Israel mourned for him.

Dürer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.

However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her.

Meanwhile his father died and his mother was cast into poverty in Corsica, still having four children to support.

His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps.

His mother died on his 12th birthday, and his father, a country solicitor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873.

His father died in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

The tales sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a mother who died in childbirth.

Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Females prefer to use traditional calving grounds restricted to certain areas, while newborn calves lie in hiding for a week or more, receiving short visits by the mother to suckle.

By a week old the calf is able to follow the mother all the time.

In her interview with Howard Stern, Plato mentioned that the traumatic events of her mother ’ s death and her husband ’ s leaving her took place during the course of only a week.

When George was only a week old, George, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas.

A mother Syrian hamster with pups under one week old

After the first week, the mother starts spending more time outside the nest, returning every few hours to nurse and groom the cubs.

In 2008, Berdimuhamedow restored the traditional names of the months and days of the week ( Niyazov had renamed them after himself and his mother, among other things ), and announced plans to move the infamous gold rotating statue of Niyazov from Ashgabat's central square.

During the Delicate Investigation, Caroline was not permitted to see her daughter, and afterwards her visits were essentially restricted to once a week and only in the presence of Caroline's own mother, the Dowager Duchess of Brunswick.

As his mother worked six days a week, he was mainly brought up by his mother's stepfather, Ludwig Frahm, and his second wife, Dora.

After a week or so of nursing without leaving the rookery, females begin to take progressively longer and more frequent foraging trips, leaving their pups behind, until at some point in late summer the mother and pup both leave the rookery.

The male is the primary caregiver, and the mother only carries the infant for the first week or so of its life.

But the armed forces from Transjordan did not stop their criminal acts, until people in some of the border settlements lost their patience and after the murder of a mother and her two children in Yahud, they attacked, last week, the village of Kibya across the border, that was one of the main centers of the murderers ' gangs.

A week later, Bokassa's mother, Marie Yokowo, unable to bear the grief of losing her husband, committed suicide.

He was released from the center three days later and began attending therapy sessions with his mother four times per week, which ended two weeks later.

But for that De Quincey was too timid, so he made his way to Chester, where his mother dwelt, in the hope of seeing a sister ; he was caught by the older members of the family, but, through the efforts of his uncle, Colonel Penson, received the promise of a guinea a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales.

When her son Toby Eady read the book, he was so amazed at how much he did not know about his mother that he did not speak to anyone for a week.

Her mother worked 80 hours a week as a beautician to support them.

Traditional families, families where the mother provides childcare and the father works, have been found to have the highest level of couple satisfaction ( only marginally above average ), while 40 % of mothers working 35 hours or more a week reported dissatisfaction with their marriage and an overall unhappiness.

One week later, together with her mother and sisters, Shabazz witnessed the assassination of her father.

He showed an unexpectedly warm and perceptive side of his nature when he took over for one week the life, family and income of a single mother living on benefits in Wallasey-When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum, ( 2003 ).

His own mother posted the winning bid, suggesting to pay the price gradually, one week at a time.

On 11 August 1982, under tight security, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were allowed to attend the funeral of their mother Violet, who had died of cancer the week before, but they were not allowed to attend the graveside service at Chingford Mount Cemetery in East London where their mother was interred in the Kray family plot.

She lived part of the time with her mother and grandmother, and had attended a strict Pentecostal church four times a week, where she played drums and sang in the choir.