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.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

his mother was trained as a lawyer but after Dyson was born worked as a social worker.

Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents, and trained on the piano.

The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident.

At age six Mussorgsky began receiving piano lessons from his mother, herself a trained pianist.

His father was in banking, and his mother trained in business school.

Geena plays a Honesdale schoolteacher / wife / mother who suffers from amnesia, and who eventually learns that she was a trained assassin before losing her memory.

Born in Leamington Spa, to a black father who had emigrated from Guyana and a white British mother, he started like his brother Dick to be trained in the art of boxing at Leamington Boys ' Club.

Her mother trained as a midwife at the To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton.

His mother, Isabel Clementina Binny Kemp ( 1880 – 1969 ) trained as a nurse.

Louis was raised in Germany by his mother and stepfather, Count-and later Prince-Tassilo Festetics von Tolna, along with his eldest half-sister, Maria-Mathilde ( later grandmother of Ira von Fürstenberg ), and did not see his father until age 11 when he was obliged to return to Monaco to be trained for his future royal duties.

In 1989, David trained with Patsy Swayze ( mother of Patrick ) at Debby Reynolds Studio in North Hollywood, California for his Austrian segment of his Knight Rider tour.

His mother Ida, née Augustin, was a maidservant and housewife, and in her thirties trained to be a hairstylist in order to supplement her husband's income.

His mother was a classically trained pianist and cellist.

His mother died when he was three, and despite his poverty, he attended the Manuel Belgrano School of Fine Arts and the National University of La Plata, where he was trained as a painter and sculptor.

After stripping her naked he takes her to his kingdom, ruled by his mother Queen Eleanor, where Beauty is trained as a slave and a plaything.

" In another interview of the time, Willcox said: " My mother taught me how to walk, she was one that was trained to give me the physiotherapy to straighten my own spine so twice a day we would go through this routine.

Both his parents are Waldorf teachers who have worked at the Waldorf School in Moss ; his father has a degree in special education while his mother has trained as a Waldorf teacher.

Yeston noted in a 1997 interview, " My mother was trained in classical piano, and her father was a cantor in a synagogue.

Having trained Paul's mother Lady Jessica at the Bene Gesserit school on Wallach IX decades before, Mohiam now holds a lethal gom jabbar to Paul's neck.

She even proved that she needs no protection, as she had surreptitiously trained herself in the use of weapons. It is not known whatever became of Calla's mother.

Jambo was not trained to care for children and was raised in captivity by his own gorilla mother, so that his actions may have involved an instinctive sense that the child needed his help.

Her mother trained her to play one-finger melodies on the piano at age 3.

As a child, Itzik trained to be a classical violinist at the urging of his mother.