Citations:mother

English citations of mother

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1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
Some cry out against sin even as the mother cries out against her child in her lap, when she calleth it slut and naughty girl, and then falls to hugging and kissing it.

1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly.

And now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master of the house, having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that such another creature, quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.

The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her children were.

(Can we date this quote?), Multiplicity Yours: Cloning, Stem Cell Research, and Regenerative Medicine, →ISBN:
To clone a boy, it is necessary to have a man as a DNA donor, a woman as an egg donor, and may be another woman as a surrogate mother. For the boy clone, who is the father? The doctor (if the doctor is a man), the donor, or the donor's […]
2023 January 16, Reinhard Renneberg, Biotechnology for Beginners, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 317:
If the cat to be cloned is female, the nucleus donor cat could also be used as the surrogate mother instead of another cat. […] The similarity between mother and kitten would be greatest. It would be a genuine clone.

1949, Grace Carlton, Spade-work: The Story of Thomas Greenwood, page 125:
[T]itles themselves are sometimes misleading, as agriculturists would find when they took out Edgeworth's Essays on Irish Bulls or Ruskin's Notes on the Construction of Sheep-folds or when the ardent young butterfly- and moth-collector went proudly home with Advice to Mothers.
1999 November 12, Donald Fisk, “What in your life resembled an UL?”, in alt.folklore.urban‎^[1] (Usenet):
A year or so beforehand, someone I know (also a mother) was beaten up by gamekeepers because they thought he was a poacher, because of his butterfly net.
1999 November 15, Gordon Harris, “What does a girl have to do to get noticed around here?”, in uk.singles‎^[1-25] (Usenet):
Look - if you're seriously interested in lepidoptery I could, with a little co-operation on your part, help you to become a mother. (That's pronounced moth - er).