Word: motherly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Resolved, That, while we join in these resolutions for the loss which we have sustained, we also tender our heartfelt sympathy to his widowed mother, who by his death is called upon to mourn her only child...
...fond mother to her bosom folds...
Beside my mother lone, whose song I hear...
...little star, from the wing of its mother...
...believe that it is deserved. A short time after leaving Oxford, where he distinguished himself both as a scholar and as an athlete, George Hughes established himself in London, intending to follow the law; but he was soon compelled, principally by the illness of his wife's mother, to relinquish his profession. After living in Italy for some time, he returned to England, and took up his residence for life on his country estate. It is this part of his life, perhaps, which is most interesting, for we have here presented to us a character supposed to be almost extinct...