Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...element when she could give information. "The great philosopher, Muag Big, to be sure," said she, "and his daughter. He is, they say, the greatest thinker alive. He has an idea that his daughter will be the mother of a great race, and he is looking for a young ape who shall be a fit husband for her. Is n't that a suffocatingly queer idea? I am going to see his daughter, Tue Swe, to-morrow; won't you go with...
...Just for example, one time he and I were calling on an old minister, a dear friend of his mother, and in the course of the conversation the old gentleman remarked that a fire had occurred very near him the day before, which however he said he had not witnessed...
THEY had just arrived at the Profile House, and were sitting down to their first meal, when the younger of the two ladies exclaimed: "Why! look there, mother, at the next table...
...walked through the wilderness of this world, I laid me down and slept. And in a dream a fair oasis met my sight, and I saw one Lighthead leave a fair city in this oasis, parting from father and mother, from brother and from sister, yea, from his cousin also. And on his back was strapped a great burden of books, but in his head had he none. And Lighthead journeyed forth from his kindred thus, declaring that he would learn wisdom and taste of the tree of knowledge. And as he went (gently reclining in a Palace...
...trowe her mother has rocked a fule...