How To Use Mother Hubbard In A Sentence
- Under his critical gaze I manage to avoid mincing, but end up walking with a pronounced limp and a crooked back, instead - Mother Hubbard crossed with an out-of-condition baby elephant.
- The house is an absolute tip with a fridge that makes Old Mother Hubbard look good but there's not much new in that.
- An 'now, dey tell me, Silvy she got him down to shirt-sleeves -- splittin' rails, wid his breeches gallused up wid twine, while she sets in de cabin do 'wid a pink caliker Mother Hubbard wrapper on fannin' 'erse'f. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
- If not for my quick wits, she would probably be reading me Old Mother Hubbard by now.
- Mother Hubbard election bone arrantly thrown where doing nothing was viewed as wise business. Archive 2007-07-01
- A senior man beats a log drum to summon the village to afternoon prayer; women in ‘Mother Hubbard’ dresses and men in sulu wraps file into the stone Methodist church and Sweet Jesus hymns waft out.
- And if they've encountered such words as cunctation, fucoid, Mother Hubbard, Infinite Monkeys - "...a sparkly blog..." - James Lileks
