If Mama Cow continues to act unmotherly, this calf will be a bum orphan. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2010)
In biographies, Flora is often presented as cruel and unmotherly to Jack. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And again solemnly interrogated, declares, that she would have been drawn with wild horses, rather than have touched the bairn with an unmotherly hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I scrutinized her selection of eye shadow, dipped my fingers in pots of brilliant pink blush, and sat mesmerized by the wondrous transformation taking place before me—a person turning from my mom into a woman who seemed beautiful and sophisticated and so, well, unmotherly. ❋ Jennifer O'Connell (2007)
He and all the world thought hardly of me for my strange, unmotherly resolve, and I deserved to be misjudged. ' ❋ Unknown (2004)
And what do you think became of the unmotherly hen? ❋ Various (N/A)
Would you believe it, children? in one day, this unmotherly hen had pecked all but one of her chickens to death; and, when Aunt Jane found this poor chap, he had but one eye, and all the toes were gone from one foot; so that he had to stand on the other. ❋ Various (N/A)
No one has ever attempted to violate the solitude of the sanctuary where Selima wept for the seven little ones taken to the grave, and for the absent one whom she had treated with unmotherly neglect. ❋ Various (N/A)
Feigning to be unmotherly, she spurred on her husband to grasp his freedom, and urged and tempted him to insurrection; causing her son to be summoned to Sweden with a promise of vast gifts. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
There was nothing in either her looks or her manner to explain George's uncomfortable feeling; and yet it increased, becoming suddenly a vague resentment, as if she had done something unmotherly to him. ❋ Unknown (1918)
There was nothing in either her looks or her manner to explain Georges uncomfortable feeling; and yet it increased, becoming suddenly a vague resentment, as if she had done something unmotherly to him. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Feeling the red faces of the little strangers in such close proximity to hers, Zoie drew away from them with abhorrence, but unconscious of her unmotherly action, Alfred continued his mad career about the room, his heart overflowing with gratitude toward Zoie in particular and mankind in general. ❋ Margaret Mayo (1916)
Father -- conveniently ignoring the provocation she had given and the scandalous, unmotherly conduct of which she had been guilty -- came to consider the behaviour of the Infante of Portugal as reprehensibly unfilial, and commanded him to deliver Dona Theresa at once from duress. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Then she came and sat with them on the seat under the big cedar and talked with them in a wrap that was pretty rather than prudish and entirely unmotherly. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The wish was not entirely unmotherly, as motherhood goes in these days, for it is not an unusual thing for mothers to send their babes off to kindergarten as soon as they begin to babble, in order to be relieved of the responsibility of their care. ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)
A mother, watching the death agony of her son, may piously wish it over: but it were an unmotherly act to lay her own hand on his mouth and smother him. ❋ Joseph Rickaby (1888)
