How To Use Motherless In A Sentence
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There have been cases of female animals ‘adopting’ motherless young ones of other species.
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Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
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Billy (a charming Jamie Bell), is motherless, his dad and brother jobless, and he prefers ballet to biffo.
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The tale regards the ruler as a father to the orphan, husband to the widow, brother to she who is divorced, a garment to the motherless, a just ruler who comes to the voice of those who call him.
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Orders were given to bar the door against the convict gang who had come to discharge their unpleasant duty, and while all were busy decking out the unconscious corpse in gayest attire, none paid any heed to me bending over the fire with the motherless child, journeying fast to join its dead parent.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Amy Hungerford: Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter
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Many friends knew the tale of her remarkable childhood spent on the cattle stations, with her father and his motherless brood of five young children.
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Innocent was in very truth "motherless" -- but so she had always been -- for a mother who deserts her child is worse than a mother dead.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact
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For example,' said Isabel, `that he should grow up motherless ?
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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The play ignores the absence of his wife, though motherlessness is clearly among the reasons for his daughters' unruliness.
The Times Literary Supplement
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With the possible exception of Motherless Brooklyn (which I loved and re-read to savor the sheer sumptuousness of its prose) Chronic City is his best yet.
Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem.
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Motherless, she was sent off early by her father to be a lady-in-waiting and was expected to make an advantageous marriage.
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HI Rosie-On your show you had a guest that wrote a book called motherless daughters.
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Amy Hungerford: Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter
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His motherless sons: for them the croft, for them the boat, for them his every waking thought.
THE LONELY SEA
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She was educated largely at home, where, as the youngest of the motherless family, she may have fallen under the Wesleyan influence of her aunt.
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[Seven, the "motherless" number, which has no factor below ten.]
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04
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Soulless tombs unborn children dread life after birth in motherless wombs. my 594th poem
The Malady Of Malegaon « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
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He is a motherless boy with an irresponsible alcoholic father, a fading rodeo star, who has trouble holding down a job and keeping the household together.
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Elsewhere comes the cry of the "motherless" and the "Farewell, farewell, my only child.
The Souls of Black Folk
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child," the blueswoman sings in an ominous warble.
Slate Articles
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It may not be recounted, ne never it was seen in our time, the great charity, pity, and misericorde that he had towards the poor indigent and suffretous, towards the widows and to the poor children both father - and motherless all the time of his life.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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After performing for nearly 3 hours, he improvised this jam on the old standard "Motherless Child."
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It is a patriarchal society's tradition of enforced motherlessness that is sought to be challenged at the cost of being regarded as an aberrant mother.
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Dylan and his black buddy, united by motherlessness, inherit a powerful ring from a local derelict.
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One of his observations about the theme of motherlessness in my books, remains for me, the most valuable thing ever said about my work.
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Countless readers have bonded with the character of Janie Crawford, a motherless girl raised by her grandmother.
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He went to his neighbour to beg for some milk to feed the motherless baby.
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His motherless sons: for them the croft, for them the boat, for them his every waking thought.
THE LONELY SEA
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The last two months have seen the release of three family films featuring single dads raising motherless only-children.
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Elsewhere comes the cry of the "motherless" and the "Fare-well, farewell, my only child.
The Souls of Black Folk
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The motherless family's pain is palpable and the sense of hopelessness can almost be smelt.
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Growing up motherless, Mary also lost her sister to suicide.
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In 1992, 90,000 American women between the ages of 25 and 54 died and 125,000 kids under 18 were left motherless.
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So from one day to the next we found ourselves both fatherless and motherless.
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Oh, yes! let her alone, and in years to come she will from the dictates of her kind heart, be giving herself away to some motherless, fameless and moneyless young man, I fear!" said the worldly and far-seeing mother.
The Rector of St. Mark's
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His motherless sons: for them the croft, for them the boat, for them his every waking thought.
THE LONELY SEA
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Mrs. Lorne treats Johnny kindly because she knows he is motherless.
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I stayed in bed for two weeks, taking painkillers and sleeping pills; trying to silence the nightmares of crying, motherless babies.
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Motherlessness in my situation was far too closely equated with lovelessness.
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For example, Lord Voldemort had his background as a motherless illegitimate child --- which doesn't really go anywhere near explaining his extreme evil and self-destructive tendency to kill people, especially Muggles, just for fun.
Why Villains Exist in Fiction
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Motherless, with neither brother nor sister, his aged and infirm father dying in Italy, where he could not be permitted to visit him, banished from his native land, jealously watched and menaced by all the allied powers, his fair name maligned, all these considerations seemed to fill his cup of sorrow to the brim.
Hortense Makers of History Series
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As someone whose mother died when she was 15, and mom was 37, the fear of leaving my children motherless is sometimes incapacitating, and particularly so since I do have a minor heart condition.
The Heart is a Muscle, Redux | Her Bad Mother
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This is jabberwocky food: rootless, borderless, motherless, in-the-style-of food.
Times, Sunday Times
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He went to his neighbour to beg for some milk to feed the motherless baby.
