Motherly

Is she "lacking in motherly inhibitions and propriety and self-control" [p. 156]? ❋ Unknown (2004)

She was quiet, simple; in short, motherly, when seen by Cooper the winter of 1828-29. ❋ Phillips, Mary E (1912)

She was quiet, simple; in short, motherly, when seen by Cooper the winter of ❋ Unknown (1901)

Almost every woman who meets him feels either the secret urge to fuck him, or becomes awash in motherly protective urges, or both. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In charged Bella Abzug, who former Ms. editor Suzanne Braun Levine noted wasn't "polite" or "motherly" -- and therefore, everyone from the conservatives to the peace activists were wary of. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can be called the motherly one, if you are in a group of people, which doesn't have to be bad. ❋ Qdiosa (2005)

"Welcome to Elk Lodge!" called a motherly voice, and Mrs. Macksey appeared in the open door of the main corridor. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

From the time of her first acquaintance with him, till her death, in 1821, she treated him with the most flattering regard, -- with an affection, indeed, that might be called motherly, had there not been in it an element of excitement which was neither maternal nor dignified. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Leave Poll alone; she's in one of her trances!" called a motherly, good-natured woman whose trunk stood next to Polly's, and whose business was to support a son and three daughters upon stalwart shoulders, both figuratively and literally. ❋ Margaret Mayo (1916)

` ` Leave Poll alone; she's in one of her trances! '' called a motherly, good-natured woman whose trunk stood next to Polly's, and whose business was to support a son and three daughters upon stalwart shoulders, both figuratively and literally. ❋ Unknown (1908)

She poured the tea from a silver teapot into paper thing china cups, reflecting that no one had ever called her motherly before; homely, plump, dull, uninteresting -- all these, repeated so often that they no longer hurt; indeed anything her stepmother said to her now had no effect at all, and even though she was aware that there was truth in what she said, she enjoyed the friendship of a large number of people who didn't seem to notice her unassuming looks. ❋ Neels, Betty (1986)

She was starting to take a kind of motherly interest in his managerial success. ❋ David Kirkpatrick (2010)

She is your fairly standard "motherly" character, at least for the first season or so. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I do feel that a long, flowing skirt helps to make my pregnancy simply look more "motherly", as opposed to looking akward and misshapen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They knew very well what they were about; and they required to do so, for Mrs Abel brought up, I believe, nineteen of a family: she was a very stout, "motherly" woman. ❋ William M'Combie (N/A)

It is not in accord with Manóbo custom for a man to have two or more wives unless the first wife consents to the later marriages, and, if she does consent, she must always be considered the man's favorite and must be allowed to have a kind of motherly jurisdiction over the other wives. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)

No, it's because it has a kind of motherly perfume -- not too young, you understand -- something kind of seasoned and wholesome and dependable -- jest like a mother. ❋ Unknown (1915)

With a kind of motherly instinct she forestalls my every wish, and at the end of a few days had already known my habits better than one of those London sharks and furies would have known them at the end of a century .... ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

She was actually saying it in a soothing, 'motherly' sort of way, calculated to steady the lady's nerves – reassuring the rescuer. ❋ Unknown (1907)