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mother and difficult
He was no longer able to relax in the presence of his parents and found it difficult to keep up a conversation with his mother or father, no matter the subject.
Alexei's relations with his father suffered from the hatred between his father and his mother, as it was very difficult for him to feel affection for his mother's worst persecutor.
His exact birth site is unclear because he was born about the time his mother was making a difficult trip home from burying Jackson's father.
The death of his children caused ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá immense grief – in particular the death of his son Husayn Effendi came at a difficult time following the death of his mother and uncle.
" His sister, Carol, said that their mother " above all wanted to protect Carl ... She had an extraordinarily difficult time dealing with World War II and the Holocaust ".
He had many mistresses, and identifying which mistress is the mother of which child is difficult.
John Macdonald's mother was a lifelong influence on her son, helping him in his difficult first marriage and remaining a force in his life until her 1862 death.
As a teenager, she found it difficult to deal with her rising fame, and for a period she blamed her mother for pushing her into acting as a child.
Victoria became queen in 1837 at age 18, after a difficult childhood under the control of her mother.
The treatment of his elder cousin Eleanor of Brittany, who was 23 years his senior ( and older than his mother ), was a difficult problem for Henry.
Years later, Leah Rosenberg, Richler's mother, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter ( 1981 ), which discusses Mordecai's birth and upbringing, and the sometime difficult relationship between them.
Bizet's marriage was initially happy, but was affected by Geneviève's nervous instability ( inherited from both her parents ), her difficult relations with her mother and by Mme.
Due to the irregularity of assuming the royal title, when his mother, the legitimate queen, was alive, the negotiations with the Castilian Cortes in Valladolid ( 1518 ) proved difficult, and in the end Charles was accepted under the following conditions: he would learn to speak Castilian ; he would not appoint foreigners ; he was prohibited from taking precious metals from Castile ; and he would respect the rights of his mother, Queen Joanna.
Shortly thereafter, probably in November 1487, Henry VII gave Margaret in marriage to his cousin, Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was half-sister of the king's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort ; this would make it more difficult for plotters to use her as a figurehead.
The film is about Henry Van Cleve ( played by Don Ameche ) who presents himself at the gates of Hell to recount his life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult 25 years of marriage to Martha ( Gene Tierney ).
When Garfield was five, his brother Max was born and their mother never fully recovered from what was described as a " difficult " pregnancy.
Josephine Quintavalle, from Comment on Reproductive Ethics ( CORE ), accused Rashbrook of selfishness and said it would be extremely difficult for a child to have a mother who is as old as a grandmother.
She did not want to serve at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson in West Virginia, due to its remote location ; in 2004, her lawyer said that the remoteness would make it difficult for Stewart's then-90 year old mother to visit.
In retaliation, Edmund reminds his mother that her own father died of tuberculosis, and then, before exiting, he adds how difficult it is to have a " dope fiend for a mother.
It was a difficult birth, and his mother Elizabeth, who hoped for a girl, was uncomfortable even looking at him at first.
He had a difficult relationship with his strict father, but was very attached to his mother.

mother and child
The child grows rich on his winnings and conspires with his uncle to make secret gifts of his money to his mother.
The child dies with his mourning mother at his bedside.
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.
Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.
Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
Is the mother of an `` autistic '' child at fault??
A mother can help a child adapt to his difficulties.
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.
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.
It's perfectly normal for babies to suck their thumbs, and no mother need worry if a child continues this habit until he is two or three years old.
Growing up without a mother from the time she was three -- it wasn't a good thing for a child, even knowing the kind of mother Alice had been.
Often bedridden as a child, he became an outcast at school and bonded with his mother.
For example, Oki, born as a child of an Ainu father and a Japanese mother, became a musician who plays the traditional Ainu instrument tonkori.
Agrippina ’ s mother Julia was the only natural child born to Augustus from his second marriage to noblewoman Scribonia.
Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.
Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.
Soon afterwards he had the Empress Maria imprisoned and then killed ( forcing a signature from the child Emperor Alexius to put his mother to death ), by Pterygeonites and the hetaireiarches Constantine Tripsychos.
The leprous child Baldwin IV succeeded his father and brought his mother Agnes of Courtenay ( now married to her fourth husband ) back to court.
Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.
At the rock, a local mother, Mrs. Schroeder, tries to tell her child, Baby Joan, to come down from the rock, when Baby Joan licks it-and a spring of water begins flowing from it.
Chaplin believed his first influence to be his mother, who would entertain him as a child by sitting at the window and mimicking passers-by.

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