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.

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 ''.

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.

He supported his mother and his brother, who afterwards committed suicide.

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 ).

As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

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

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

The mother and daughter, who will be buried side by side in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, rested together today in closed caskets at the Lyle Elliott Funeral Home, 31730 Mound, Warren.

`` O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle queen and mother, look down in mercy upon England, thy `` dowry '', and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.

There were several fairly good minor portraits in the play, including William Hansen's impersonation of a stubborn, rather pathetic father, and Katherine Squire's vigorous characterization of a farm mother who brooked no hifalutin' nonsense from her daughter, or anyone else.

His mother, who had seen little of him for four years, appeared worried about his sailing off by himself for an Orient which, she herself having slight knowledge of it, had to be distrusted.

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

She fell in love with Apollo who disguised himself as Leucothea's mother to gain entrance to her chambers.

His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College.

Rieux is Dr. Rieux's mother, who comes to stay with him when his sick wife goes to the sanatorium.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

Desi was survived by his children and his mother, Dolores, who died in 1988 at the age of 92.

The next year his son Gerhard was wounded in the war but survived, and his mother Julia died.

Nicholas Knatchbull's mother and father, along with his twin brother Timothy, survived the explosion but were seriously injured.

He is survived by his wife, Melodie, his daughter, Laurel, along with his mother, seven sisters, his brother, and other family.

In 1630 he narrowly survived an outbreak of plague, which killed his mother.

His mother, Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at the age of 90.

When development of Tomb Raider was transferred from Core Design to Crystal Dynamics, Lara's biography, was that she and her mother survived a plane crash and later, her mother disappears in the site where they crashed ( see Tomb Raider: Legend ).

He was especially close to his mother, Liţa Baranga, who survived his death.

In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.

Her mother, Maria Theresa, caught it and, though she survived, she suffered from the effects of the disease for the rest of her life.

The surgery, the first of its kind to be performed in the UK, was successful, and both mother and baby survived.

The only one known to have survived to adulthood was Julia Flavia, perhaps Titus's child by Arrecina, whose mother was also named Julia.

Sharrow, who as a child narrowly survived the assassination of her mother, joins up with her former combat team on a series of quests.

She survived the invasion of the Tuatha Dé Danann and became the foster mother of Lugh.

From age 12, Shahak cared for and provided economic support for his mother who survived the Nazi camp in very poor physical condition.

He was survived by his wife, the former Esther J. Quintana ; his mother, and a brother, William Denzal Smith.

At the war's end, upon his return to Naples, Pasqualino discovers that his seven sisters, his fiancée and even his mother have all survived through prostitution.

Stella's one child, Luciio, survived his birth but fifty days ; nor did his mother long remain to comfort the scholar's old age.

Among his accomplishments was the first caesarean section in Africa by a British surgeon in which both the mother and child survived the operation.

His mother, worn out by childbirth, died when George was 16 ; her husband survived her by 41 years.

She was survived by her mother Julia Eagles and several brothers and sisters.

Marcel's mother survived.

Obituary notices stated that she was survived by her mother, Amanda La Badie, with no mention of her having been adopted.