Word: motherly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Conference. Papers: Notes on the Geography of Mother Brook, Mr. H. H. Keeler; Some Jurassic Reptiles from the Lithographic Slates, Dr. C. R. Eastman; Notes on the Rivers of England, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Notes on the Geography of Mother Brook, Mr. H. H. Keeler; Some Jurassic Reptiles from the Lithographic Slates, Dr. C. R. Eastman; Notes on the Rivers of England, Professor Davis. Geological Laboratory...
...wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty, put his own mother to death when her strength and vigor were yet unimpaired, in order that she might enter the spirit life in full possession of her bodily faculties...
...languages than our own. It plays the part of poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained another sense and had ourselves a share in the sorcery that is practiced on us. The words of our mother tongue have been worn smooth by so often rubbing against our lips or minds, while the alien word has all the subtle emphasis and beauty of some new-minted coin of ancient Syracuse. In our critical estimates we should be on our guard against this charm...
...arose that the disaster was even greater than was at first supposed and that a fifth student had met his death. Nothing, however, could be learned definitely as to his fate, and we were not forced to abandon the hope that he might yet prove to be alive. His mother was very ill, and it was earnestly desired that she might be spared the shock which any whisper of danger to her son would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared altogether. The circumstances were laid before the Boston papers and, without exception, they consented to make no mention...