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Example sentences for "her son"

  • Yet she was gratified at her son's good fortune after all, and proudly attributed it all to his own superior merits and endowments.

  • Her son Ollivier, whom she was wont to speak of with pride, was a pupil at the Ecole de Marine.

  • Lucy Stewart abstained from this on account of her son, but it was bruited abroad that Rose Mignon had commissioned Labordette to risk two hundred louis for her.

  • It might be that this woman could afford explanations to the judges which would touch them, and so she conceived the project of begging her to bear witness in her son's favor.

  • Her son's wife suffered from the resulting boredom and unpopularity without being able to comprehend the significance of the situation.

  • What was done would be for the comfort of Lady Anstruthers and the future of her son.

  • It had begun to dawn upon Rosalie that her ladyship was deeply convinced that either herself or her son would be admirably discreet custodians of the money referred to.

  • She asked pardon many times because she had not been able to be really sorry when she had heard of her son-in-law's desperate condition.

  • Her son's name was John--that he had changed his last name was more than likely.

  • She must lose her daughter as well as her son, and this should be the penance for her sin.

  • When she saw the yearning in Rena's eyes, she threw herself at her son's feet.

  • The same number of four hundred belonged to an estate which an African widow, of a very private condition, resigned to her son, whilst she reserved for herself a much larger share of her property.

  • After the death of the latter, who survived but a short time the elevation of Alexander, Mamæa remained the sole regent of her son and of the empire.

  • His arts proved unsuccessful; his vain designs were constantly discovered by his own loquacious folly, and disappointed by those virtuous and faithful servants whom the prudence of Mamæa had placed about the person of her son.

  • Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy on her son Marcellus.

  • The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

  • I am sure that not a single one of them looked half as aristocratic as her son.

  • The delay was clearly caused by the unexpected arrival of Mr. Blunt’s mother, which might or might not have been expected by her son.

  • And I understood then that she looked on her son as irresistible.

  • She knew that the old lady was expected from day to day, that she would be pleased at her son's choice, and she felt it strange that he should not make his offer through fear of vexing his mother.

  • Getting up from the seat and handing her maid a bag, she gave her little wrinkled hand to her son to kiss, and lifting his head from her hand, kissed him on the cheek.

  • Is her son determined to submit to this, and to all the tediousness of the many years of suspense in which it may involve you, rather than run the risk of her displeasure for a while by owning the truth?

  • Mrs. Ferrars can never forget that Edward is her son.

  • As they drove down Piccadilly Mrs. Waldeaux chattered eagerly to her son.

  • But there was not an atom of the tramp in her son's well-built and fashionably clothed body.

  • Sometimes Lucy could not decide whether she had seen these meanings on Frances Waldeaux's face, or on her son's.

  • She rose, and smiled to her son's wife, and after a moment held out her hand.

  • Her spiritual or carnal love embraced the young adventurer, whom she adopted as her son.

  • The grief of Antonina could only be assuaged by the sufferings of her son.

  • After the death of the latter, who survived but a short time the elevation of Alexander, Mamaea remained the sole regent of her son and of the empire.

  • His arts proved unsuccessful; his vain designs were constantly discovered by his own loquacious folly, and disappointed by those virtuous and faithful servants whom the prudence of Mamaea had placed about the person of her son.

  • A reviewer said she acted thus, not because she cared how she looked, but for the sake of her son.

  • And then like a good mother she took up one of her son's books and read it most determinedly.

  • But near to the end did she admit (in words) that he had a way with him which was beyond her son.

  • As to your enrichment by the lady who believed you to be her son, and whom you were forced to believe, on her showing, to be your mother, consider whether that did not arise out of the personal relations between you.

  • It's because I loved her that I feel it a duty--a sacred duty--to do justice to her son.

  • Something in the tone and manner of his allusion to her son's country-house seemed to have offended her.

  • She looked at her son as she lifted her veil to take the oath.

  • She must know him, and know him well, as a guest at Gleninch and an old friend of her son.

  • She now rose slowly and faced her son in silence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her arrival; her body; her children; her country; her dark; her ear; her good; her great; her horse; her position; her right; her room; her seat; her window; here figured; here goes; here mentioned; here referred; here reproduced; here taken; here translated; here very; heroic deeds; herself again; mental prayer; straight lines