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Example sentences for "dear mother"

  • Dear mother, Paul may seem to you a trifle stupid, but he is not one atom selfish or grasping.

  • Dear mother, tell me, quick, all that you know yourself.

  • But why, my dear mother, are you playing the Grand Inquisitor?

  • Dear mother, I am listening to you, but I don't understand one word you say.

  • Mother--in my dear mother's name, I thank you for the generous love you have ever shown me: for the generous care with which you have attended to the development of the talents God gave me.

  • God is so high and lifted up in the far heavens, that I feel myself but as a tiny blade of grass that looks up to the far sun--dear mother!

  • When Aunt Janet calls me Rupert, as she always used to do in my dear mother's time, things are serious with her.

  • I remember my dear mother's wish to make Aunt Janet happy, and would like to do as she did.

  • Miss Janet MacKelpie, my aunt, who has always been so kind to me, and whom my mother loved--I want to have made over to her the money which my dear mother left to me.

  • I meant the trustees of my dear mother's will.

  • You know, my dear mother, that your Pembroke is famous for his ingenious mode of showing the full value of every favor he confers!

  • Why, my dear mother, do you distress yourself?

  • When we landed in England, I found the cause of my sudden recall had been the illness of my dear mother.

  • For one week I have been young, dear mother; hurl me not back again into that dark dungeon of solitude where so much of my short life has been spent.

  • Dear mother, would she deign to look upon me?

  • See, Christina, your tears are brighter than our dear mother's diamonds.

  • Tell me, my dear mother, is not this beautiful reception-room very aristocratically and appropriately fitted up?

  • On the very day of my betrothal, I was obliged to promise my dear mother-in-law never to speak with you alone or correspond with my sweet lady-love.

  • I did not know that you had written to his majesty at all, dear mother.

  • You know, besides, my dear mother, that he proposes to offer a donation of a hundred thousand francs to St. Mary's the day he gains possession of the fortune of Mdlle.

  • Therefore let me entreat you, my dear mother, to redouble your precautions, that no one may effect an entrance by night.

  • A very important recommendation, my dear mother, though I am in a great hurry.

  • I think of him and my dear mother, and those dear uncles James and Frank, so specially dear to me, and others gone before.

  • You will see, or have seen him laid by my dear Mother's side.

  • The anniversary of my dear mother's death comes round in ten days.

  • It must be, my dear mother; honor compels it.

  • Then, just think, dear mother, what a happy summer we will spend together!

  • Ah, my dear mother, I would not be what I am, if you had watched over my childhood.

  • I accept; yes, I accept these jewels worn by my dear mother; but I take them as a sacred deposit, confided to my honor, and for which I will some day account to you.

  • At length she exclaimed, "My dear mother!

  • All my concern is, that I cannot die in the arms of my dear mother, who has always loved me tenderly, and for whom I had a reciprocal affection.

  • I said, "Weep not, my dear mother, for my absence has been owing to the highest good fortune.

  • It is a likeness of my dear mother; Sally has got my father on.

  • My dear mother (her name is Aethra) told me his story while I was yet a little child.

  • Dear mother Aethra," he exclaimed, "I never felt half so strong as now!

  • Of course, I will obey my dear mother," said Sophie.

  • And how am I to help you, my dear mother?

  • It may be, my dear mother, but we must be careful not to make a mistake.

  • It is not complete evidence, dear mother; send the woman to me.

  • I beg of you, my dear mother, in the name of my heavy work, never to write me that such a work is good, and such another bad: you upset me for a fortnight.

  • You ask me to write you in full detail; but, my dear mother, have you yet to be told what my existence is?

  • Mother, dear mother, don't tell me any more to-night.

  • Waitstill, how you have helped my poor, dear mother!

  • Dear mother, I am afraid I kept you waiting.

  • Well, dear mother, I hope you have settled it all with Lord Illingworth?

  • My dear mother, it all sounds very tragic, of course.

  • Dear mother, I knew you wouldn't stand in my way.


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