He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

They were camped beside a large column-shaped boulder: a man, his lubra, and two children.

There were fences in the old days when we were children.

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

The merits of the Salk anti-polio vaccine were not established on the forensic platform or in newspaper editorials, but in the laboratory and by tests in the field on thousands of children.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, especially children, were encouraged to be polite??

The children he painted were almost always in rags, his portraits were often ruthless to the point of ugliness, and his nudes -- including several self-portraits -- were stringy, contorted and strangely pathetic.

He imagined they were the kind whose tax returns were never examined ( if they were, they were never penalized ), whose children had no unhappy romances, whose names never knew scandal.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

Asked the children, whose reflexes and replies were invariably so admirably normal and predictable.

It ranged from those with no children, through students in various stages of pregnancy, to one 44-year-old male with four children, three of whom were teenagers.

Equal proportions of children in each city were drawn from upper-lower and lower-middle class neighborhoods.

Therefore, third-grade children were chosen as subjects for this study.

Thomas Lincoln's new wife was the widow Sarah Bush Johnston, the mother of three children.

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

After confessing to the murder of Maxine and his ex-wife, Hillman attempted to kill Gail, her children Sarah and David, and her granddaughter Bethany, by driving them into a canal.

Since it was regarded as the highest blessing to have many children, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands to atone, at least in part, if they were barren, as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar, Rachel and Bilhah.

He was the youngest of seven children of Salvatore Capra, a fruit grower, and the former Sarah Nicolas.

Heinz was married to Sarah Sloan Young Heinz in 1869 and had four children:

According to the Biblical Book of Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah were half-siblings, both being children of Terah ( Ge 20: 12 ).

By 2004, they had four children together: Eric, Sarah, Nancy, and Sofia.

John and Priscilla had the following children who survived to adulthood: Elizabeth, John ( accused during the Salem witch trials ), Joseph, Priscilla, Robert, Jonathan, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, Rebecca, and David.

Whale was born in Dudley, England, the sixth of the seven children of William, a blast furnaceman, and Sarah, a nurse.

Following the example of Sarah, who gave her handmaid to Abraham after years of infertility, Rachel gave Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, in marriage so that Rachel could raise children through her.

* Sarah Wedgwood ( 1776 – 1856 ) ( no children, very active in the slavery abolition movement )

His children are Elizabeth Sarah Gell-Mann ( b. 1956 ) and Nicholas Webster Gell-Mann ( b. 1963 ); and he has a stepson, Nicholas Southwick Levis ( b. 1978 ).

He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).

Born in Charles County, Maryland, Mudd was the fourth of ten children of Henry Lowe and Sarah Ann Reeves Mudd.

They married in 1774, lived at the northeast corner of 3rd and Pine Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had four children, Sarah, Thomas, Sophia, and Maria.

They had two children, both born by Caesarean section at Margaret's request: David, Viscount Linley in 1961 and Lady Sarah in 1964.

* Sarah Morris ( played by Anne Bobby ) — Mo's wife and high school sweet heart, mother of two less than handsome children.

Sarah W. Whedon suggests in an 2009 article in Nova Religio that the social construction of indigo children is a response to an " apparent crisis of American childhood " in the form of increased youth violence and diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

He and Sarah had eight children, but three died young, and only one survived, Paul.

" Occasionally the older children in the cast ( such as Christine McGlade, Sarah West, or Cyndi Kennedy ) played adult characters.

Elizabeth had six children ( five daughters and one son ) with Richardson ; four of their daughters, Mary, Martha, Anne, and Sarah, reached adulthood and survived their father.

The couple had two children ; Martin ( born 1945 ) ( a Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Kent ) and Sarah ( born 1951 ).

In British National Cinema ( 1997 ), Sarah Street argues that " Brief Encounter thus articulated a range of feelings about infidelity which invited easy identification, whether it involved one's husband, lover, children or country " ( p. 55 ).

Besides William Henry, their youngest child, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison had six other children ; Elizabeth, Anna, Benjamin VI, Lucy, Carter, and Sarah.