Word: mamma
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...fair daughters. Nor is it upon the "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples" that the daughters feast. The "sober and God-fearing fashion" has passed into a round of jollity that shames the sober bachelor graduates who wander about aimlessly seeking they know not what, and territies papa and mamma in their watch-towers of observation with its desperate flirtation...
Miss Wreckless to Old Scruples, who is looking at a plaque of her painting : "Now, that's mamma; such a bother as she was; we have no oven and had to have her fired out of the house." And Scruples, who is not versed in the technicalties of china painting, goes off in doubt whether it is worse to be unfilial or to talk along. - [Life...
Precocious children - "I know," said the little girl to her elder sister's young man at the supper table, "that you will join in our society for the protection of little birds, because mamma says you are very fond of larks." - [Philadelphia Bulletin...
...girls say papa and mamma : The New York girl says "Ma - r!" with a jerk on the "r." The Philadelphia girl says "May-ar" through her nose. The St. Louis girl says "Ma'mar;" the Boston girl says "Mur-mur;" the Baltimore beauty "Mur-mur" and "Pur-pur;" the little Canadian says "Pa-ah" and "Ma-ah;" the Alabama girl says "Porr" and "Morr;" the Brooklyn girl says "Par-pah" and "Mah-ah;" the little London girls say, "Now, po-pow-ah, you make me lowof...
...heard papa read out of the paper last night (of course you know I never read newspapers; mamma says very few English girls do) - now what was I writing about? Oh, yes. I heard papa read that Oscar Wilde had arrived. Now whatever do they make all this fuss of him for? I don't care one speck about seeing him, but I know some of the girls are just crazy to. I've seen his picture, and think he's horrid ugly. He looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened...