Daughterless

June 30, 2009 by Organic Mama 1. My daughterless house is very quiet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Posted in Kids, Life with Dogs, My life, Ten things Tuesday on June 30, 2009 | 4 Comments » 1. My daughterless house is very quiet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Cindy had been taken into legal custody she would have been adopted by others—and you and I would have gone daughterless all our lives. ❋ V.C Andrews (1981)

"She has no compunction about rushing off to work on a newspaper, day after day, and leaving me daughterless," complained Mr. Ashe lightly. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)

But she was daughterless herself; her family feeling was strong; and Mary's society was an old and pleasant habit one could ill have parted with. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Her sisters had married from duty, but Mrs. Portico would rather have chopped off one of her large, plump hands than behave herself so well as that She had, in her daughterless condition, a certain ideal of a girl that should be beautiful and romantic, with lustrous eyes, and a little persecuted, so that she, Mrs. Portico, might get her out of her troubles. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Nonconformists -- still there was a charm in Angela's gentle beauty against which the daughterless matron could not steel her heart. ❋ Unknown (1875)

The great question for the county was debated in many households, daughter-thronged and daughterless, long subsequent to the memorable day of Willoughby's coming of age. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

She was not, indeed, an ambassador's daughter, but the niece of a daughterless ambassador, and therefore almost as good as a daughter. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

Flag tagged Duf transgenes were over expressed under daughterless-GAL4 at 25°C. ❋ Sarada Bulchand Et Al. (2010)

On last night's Toddlers & Tiaras, a daughterless pageant mom said of her young sons, "I'll just turn 'em into girls." ❋ Unknown (2009)

She was not, indeed, an ambassador’s daughter, but the niece of a daughterless ambassador, and therefore almost as good as a daughter. ❋ Unknown (2004)