"Motherlike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the military gentlemen at home,—people in whom she had taken no interest whatever until her wayward son had taken to the army,—she had begun to picture him in a staff uniform and on duty with the general at home, and, motherlike, was eager to speed the consummation. And then Cranston's next letter told her that her boy's best friend and adviser, Lieutenant Davies, was from Urbana, and then very soon came the story of his engagement to Almira Quimby, her own niece. It was then that Almira was sent ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... in the field was hung with them as with flashing jewels of exquisitely delicate design: Hale had once told her that they meant rain. Far away the mountains were overhung with purple so deep that the very air looked like mist, and a peace that seemed motherlike in tenderness brooded over the earth. Peace! Peace—with a man on his way to a scaffold only a few miles away, and two bodies of men, one led by her father, the other by the man she loved, ready to fly at each other's throats—the one to ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... wood, I saw her moping on the rifled tree, And my heart smote me for her, while I stood Awakened from my careless reverie; So white she looked, with moonlight round her shed. So motherlike she drooped and ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow |
