Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WELLESLEY COLLEGE girl heard her father criticised severely across a dinner-table. The critic paused a minute to say, "I hope he is no relative of yours, Miss?" Quick as thought she replied, with the utmost nonchalance, "Only a connection of my mother's by marriage." - Varsity...
There was another pair of blue eyes in that seat. They belonged to a calm-looking, middle-aged lady, apparently the mother of the fair one; but, with a most commendable matronly circumspection, she seemed to be quite absorbed in the passing landscape, and I was willing to have...
...fate would have it, one of these families, consisting of father, mother, and three children, established itself in one of the seats between myself and the charmer, and very seriously interfered with the line of visual communication; in fact, shut off entirely from my view the two occupants of the seat behind...
...contracted myself to the utmost power of my elasticity, and had nearly given up in despair, when at last, by leaning forward some considerable distance, I discovered an open space between the arm of the eight-year-old boy, who was standing up on the seat, and the mother's shoulder, on which he was leaning; and through this opening I saw - O ecstasy! - the two blue eyes...
Just then the eight-year-old dropped his ginger-bread on the floor, and as he dove down after it, I saw - Great Hercules and Adam Koch! Those two females had changed places, and those were the mother's eyes...