But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

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.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

My mother was deeply religious.

It was mother who planted the verbenas.

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.

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 ''.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

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.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

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.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.

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.

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.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His mother was nudging him, but he was still falling.

His mother Atia was the niece of Julius Caesar.

She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.

Spielsdorf and his niece had met a young woman named Millarca and her enigmatic mother at a costume ball.

Following Castel ’ s death, she was left to support her mother, a niece, and her two children.

# Nero, as well as being Claudius's great-nephew, was also his stepson, because Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger was Claudius's niece and fourth wife.

According to John of Fordun, whose account is the original source of part at least of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Malcolm's mother was a niece of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, but an earlier king-list gives her the Gaelic name Suthen.

* Atia Balba Caesonia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus ( b. 85 BC )

* April – Octavian returns from Apollonia in Dalmatia to Rome to take up Caesar's inheritance, against advice from Atia ( his mother and Caesar's niece ) and consular stepfather Antony.

Said niece Claudia reportedly married Eutropius and was mother to Constantius Chlorus.

Jeanne d ' Albret, his mother was the Queen of Navarre and the niece of King Francis I of France.

Through her mother, Richeza was a niece of Emperor Otto III ( who was instrumental to her betrothal ), Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim.

When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to Alice's niece, queen consort Lady Anne Neville.

Elizabeth of York was, during her lifetime, a daughter, sister, niece, wife and mother of English monarchs-Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII respectively.

Her mother Alice de Lusignan was daughter of Hugh X de Lusignan by Isabella of Angoulême, widow of King John of England, making Isabella niece, in the half-blood, of Henry III of England.

* Atia Balba Caesonia, niece of Julius Caesar and mother of Augustus ( d. 43 BC )

Very few individual Vanyar are named besides Imin, Ingwë, and his sister ( or possibly niece ) Indis, the second wife of Finwë ( the king of the Noldor ) and the mother of Fingolfin and Finarfin, the latter of whom founded the only house of Noldorin Elves to sport golden Vanyarin hair, perhaps most famously in Finarfin's daughter Galadriel.

* Luns ' spouse Baroness Lia van Heemstra was a niece of baroness Ella van Heemstra, the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn.

Perche had come to England to try and recover the honour of Perche which had been lost in 1204 by his mother ( a niece of John, King of England ) – this included Newbury and Shrivenham in Berkshire, Toddington in Buckinghamshire, and Haughley in Suffolk.

At the Piano is a portrait composed of his niece and her mother in their London music room, an effort which clearly displayed his talent and promise.

The woman usually called Antonia the Younger was the younger niece of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and both maternal great-grandmother and paternal great-aunt of the Emperor Nero.

She was the youngest daughter to Octavia Minor and Mark Antony and was also the favorite niece of her mother ’ s younger brother, Rome ’ s first Emperor Augustus.

McAuliffe's mother is of Maronite Lebanese origin through her father ( McAuliffe's grandfather ), and is a niece of Lebanese-American historian Philip Khuri Hitti.

According to Herodotus, Leonidas ' mother was his father's niece and had been barren for so long that the ephors, the five annually elected administrators of the Spartan constitution, tried to prevail upon King Anaxandridas to set aside his wife and take another.

William's mother Mary née Evans was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, under the terms of whose will William inherited his estate Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, and assumed the name and arms of Nightingale.

* Elizabeth Báthory ( died 1614 ), daughter of George VI and through her mother niece of the Polish King Stephen Báthory, infamous as the " Blood Countess ", one of the first known serial killers.