How To Use Stepmother In A Sentence
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Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't need their future stepmother telling me that they are excited about my wedding.
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Delia's stepmother is dealing with strange perplexities of her own.
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When her great-Aunt (an Evil Stepmother) dies, Estelle is under suspicion by the authorities and hopes to be cleared by a member of the Static Society.
REVIEW: Extraordinary Engines edited by Nick Gevers
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She reminded her of a woman who babysat for her back when she still had both her father and her stepmother around.
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Perhaps because black, Hispanic and Asian households tend to be larger and often multigenerational, teens in these groups are significantly more likely than white teens to recognize someone other than their mother or stepmother.
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Fortune to one is mother, to another is stepmother.
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The situations were the predictable ones, showing young boys (but sometimes men) seduced by women in a form of authority - governesses, nursemaids, nurses, schoolteachers, stepmothers.
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Another aspect which holds large appeal for the child is the vileness of the stepmother and stepsisters.
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I know that Sabin does not think of my stepmother as nithing.
The Falcons of Montabard
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Sharon goes to live with her stepmother and father, who lectures her on how hard she has made his life.
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His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
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He found his way to the seat at the right of his father, across from his stepmother.
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So you see, maximum evil stepmother effect, minimum effort.
The Sun
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Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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Fornication of such a gross kind as (exists) not even among the heathen, so that one (of you) hath (in concubinage) his father's wife," that is, his stepmother, while his father is still alive (2Co 7: 12; compare Le 18: 8).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Daddy, you are the wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fortune to one is mother, to another is stepmother.
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They learned to accept their stepmother in time.
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My stepmother hit loose gravel and ran the vehicle off the road into a stop sign.
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Thereafter they were inseparable, despite the wicked stepmother status accorded by her stepchildren.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since you are a functioning stepmother, involved in the children's lives and married to the dad, having the same information that the bio mom and dad have helps you help the children.
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Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a sole cause of this and many other maladies, the devil's cushion, as [1540] Gualter calls it, his pillow and chief reposal.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Are you taking wicked stepmother lessons?
The Sun
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With poverty only as their stepmother, they are repelled violently from the nectared cup of philosophy as soon as they have tasted of it and have become more fiercely thirsty by the very taste.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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Fortune to one is mother, to another is stepmother.
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The wicked stepmother knows what suits her and within those parameters she takes risks.
Times, Sunday Times
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With Charlotte Legge and Kate Braine's royal connections Ms. Legge is the daughter of the Earl of Dartmouth and Raine Spencer, Princess Diana's stepmother; Ms. Braine is a well-known sculptress and London social figure, it wasn't long before their oversized rings made of handblown Venetian glass became a must-have in smart circles.
Adding Jewels to Their Crowns
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Some half-mad bitch of a stepmother puts a contract out on you and later tries to finish the job herself via poison, and a renegade bolt of lightning ultimately kills her?
Top 10 Classic Movies That Got it Wrong » Scene-Stealers
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He will be accompanied on the climb by his father and his stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her stepmother wants the family's boarding house for herself - and is prepared to have her lying stepdaughter committed to an insane asylum to get it.
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Daddy, you are the wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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My mother and stepmother are sworn enemies owing to my mother's treatment of my stepsister when we were small.
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Naturally, hearing the word hermaphrodite reminded me of my stepmother.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ
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The mother and stepmother reportedly ended up fighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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My stepmother calmly looked at me and pressed a perfectly manicured fingertip to her temple.
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The wicked stepmother knows what suits her and within those parameters she takes risks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of an evil stepmother, as the Grimms have it, the children have a loving but scatty mother and a caring but drunken father.
Hänsel und Gretel: Fatten kid. Cook. Then eat
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Stepmum Tara Jefferson jailed for whipping girl with dog lead A STEPMOTHER who "deliberately and systematically" whipped a young "defenceless" girl with a dog lead because she was angry with her then partner has been jailed.
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My father died a year ago, and my stepmother returned to France, her native land.
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There were words to describe the stepmother/father in French: marâtre and paråtre.
Beau-fils - French Word-A-Day
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Unable to bear the torture of her stepmother, she fled home at the age of 13.
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Mary, remitted from beloved friends to an uncongenial stepmother, was doubtless on her part pining for sympathy.
Biography in the DNB
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Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment.
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But his stepmother was as close to him as if she had birthed him.
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With her father and stepmother she moved to Damascus, where she spent much of her youth.
Times, Sunday Times
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My stepmother Jennifer could lock the door, twist the dial to scald, and press on.
Excerpt: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
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When the millstone was dropped on the wicked stepmother, I did not miss a breath.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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He was not pleased that he felt oddly fearful, like a child in a tale of a wicked stepmother.
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As his stepmother had not even taken leave of him, but had entrusted his departure to the relative with whom he had been lately living, it was considered as an act of "riddance," and accepted as such by her party, and even vaguely acquiesced in by the boy himself.
A Waif of the Plains
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Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a child Julia would have had a more simple hairstyle than that worn by this adult alter ego, tied back with woolen bands vittae until it was long enough to be pinned up in the stiff nodus favored by her stepmother and aunt, which would have happened just as she was nearing the age of marriage.
Caesars’ Wives
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Relationships with mothers is confusing enough, not to mention those with stepmothers.
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On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the Clarkes stood at the end of a long hallway at Ms. Strutman's aunt's house in suburban St. Louis watching as AJ, in cutoff jeans, legwarmers and high-heeled Aldo booties, walked back and forth — in front of her mother, father, stepmother, grandmother, Ms. Myers and a reporter — trying to keep her knees from turning inward.
A Different Kind of Girl Scout
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His stepmother Zhu treated him badly and always slandered him in the front of his father.
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Jessie looked with dismay at the collection of dirty-looking shawls and coats her stepmother was piling on the sofa as "bedclothes," and if she had not been so dead tired, she could never have brought herself to lie down under them.
The Story of Jessie
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The harshness of a stepmother, and her own indulged propension to vice, cast her headlong into the greatest disorders.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Millicent Rogers, my latest subject, was not a stepmother, but as I was reporting her biography and interviewing the families that descended from her three sons by her two husbands, I realized that a stepfamily dynamic was at work.
Cherie Burns: Stepmotherhood Never Ends
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My mother is dead, and my father lives with my stepmother in a town just outside of London.
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A large witch marionette clopped in from the left wing of the stage, followed by the stepmother and father.
Master of Mirrors
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Now, more than two decades later, my stepmother nods at my question, glances at my father.
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On a conscious level, the evilness of stepmother and stepsisters is sufficient explanation for what happens to Cinderella.
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They don't like me being their stepmother one bit.
The Sun
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There were many others on the porch, her cousins, stepmothers and other female relatives.
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But last month she moved to the village of her father and stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe it's because she's leaving Saturday for a two week trip to California with her father, stepmother and stepsister.
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It quickly becomes apparent that the monster is the son of the local lord of the manor, placed under enchantment by his stepmother.
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His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
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But if he is wise he will, as Milton also did, make it up again, and get the most that he can from his stony-hearted stepmother before the time comes for him to bid her his _Vale vale et aeternum vale_.
Obiter Dicta Second Series
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It bothers me that you have taken on the role of peacemaker when there are rows between your father and stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was on her way home to Barton Farm Cottage where she lived with her father, John, her stepmother and stepsister.
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Your interest is called a remainder interest, and it comes after your stepmother's life estate, which gives her the right to live there rent free for the rest of her life.
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The point, however, was that they had changed places; Maggie had from her window, seen her stepmother leave the house -- at so unlikely an hour, three o'clock of a canicular August, for a ramble in garden or grove -- and had thereupon felt her impulse determined with the same sharpness that had made the spring of her companion's three weeks before.
The Golden Bowl — Complete
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Scholars have attacked it for promoting female passivity, for giving stepmothers a bad name, and for equating beauty with virtue: The pretty Cinderella is good and her ugly stepsisters are bad.
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo! The Case for ‘Cinderella’ (Including, Yes, the Disney Version) — Classics Every Child Should Read « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The wicked stepmother has two sidekicks, Clench and Crunch, and a magician also appears in the July 9-12 production.
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Her dad John and stepmother Lynn bought a pushchair and carrycot, while her mother Sue went shopping for baby clothes and other equipment.
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The explanation for this somewhat cryptic sentence came lower down in the aerogramme, and when Saladin learned that his new stepmother was also called Nasreen, something went wrong in his head, and he wrote his father a letter full of cruelty and anger, whose violence was of the type that exists only between fathers and sons, and which differs from that between daughters and mothers in that there lurks behind it the possibility of actual, jaw -- breaking fisticuffs.
The Satanic Verses
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The wicked stepmother knows what suits her and within those parameters she takes risks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Michael guessed that it was because her stepmother had given her a harsher time than her father had.
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Stepmother: The glass slipper is their only clue.
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His father gave a mighty laugh and his stepmother's eyes twinkled in amusement.
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He had never cared for his stepmother and now that her treachery was known to him, it was impossible not to send barbed comments in her direction.
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We'll find some nice war-work for you presently" ... and meanwhile, the household was short-handed, Mrs. Rainham was overstrained -- Cecilia found later that her stepmother was always "overstrained" whenever she spoke of leaving home -- and duties multiplied about her and hemmed her in.
Back to Billabong
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Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Daddy, you are the wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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As my father's hand reaches for the receiver, an inflammatory remark from my stepmother says sends him charging back over to her.
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They claim a tattered and neglected mummy found in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings is probably Queen Nefertiti, stepmother of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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In "The Young Slave" the jealous stepmother turns the main character into a slave, hence the story's title.
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Now, this Princess's mother had died when she was very young and she lived with her father, stepmother, and two stepsisters.
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He raced to pick up the lifejackets while his stepmother sent out a Mayday call.
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No, perhaps not," agrees Margarethe cannily ," but you haven't offered to stand by your stepmother or stepsisters with the same passion.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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We are invited to join Cinders and the loveable Buttons as they take on two very ugly sisters and a bossy stepmother and win, with a little help from a Fairy Godmother and a lot of magic.
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Daddy, you are the wicked stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first time Stepmother Edna hit me I was convinced it was a mistake and waited dumbly for an apology.
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No one ever told me either that a stepmother could suffer so badly from empty nest syndrome.
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All children are from the same mother, as our stepmother did not beget any children by my father.
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As a stepmother, don't even try to compete with the children's mother for their love.
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Are you taking wicked stepmother lessons?
The Sun
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Your stepmother and stepsisters probably love you, but just have a hard time showing it.
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The first time Stepmother Edna hit me I was convinced it was a mistake and waited dumbly for an apology.
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The stepmother loathes her late husband’s offspring and detests sharing the fruits of her deceased husband’s barony, which is beneath her needs as it is She also wants to punish Evelinde for being the brave daughter of her despicable dead spouse; so assumes the Scottish aristocratic barbarian will be a perfect brute for Evelinde.
Devil of the Highlands-Lynsay Sands « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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In one of the monthly support groups I run, one* of the stepmothers shared that she, her husband and 21 year old stepdaughter went to a family therapist for help.
Rachelle Katz: How Stepmothers Can Find a Good Therapist
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He lives in Hertfordshire with his father, stepmother and brother.
Times, Sunday Times
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He promises his father he will help take care of his stepmother and stepsisters, but he is easily persuaded to give them nothing.
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Before long, however, she's back on baby-sitting duty, as assigned to her by her frigid stepmother.
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The stepmother in the Snow White tale was evil, and she was wrong to try to deceive and kill Snow White.
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When my father died, my stepmother stayed on, remarrying a couple of years later.
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Ugly sisters and wicked stepmothers, handsome princes and beautiful princesses are all culprits in making some children grow up with low self-esteem, say the US academics.
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The stepdame was more excellent in beauty then honesty: for she loved this young man her sonne in law, either because she was unchast by nature, or because she was enforced by fate of stepmother, to commit so great a mischiefe.
The Golden Asse
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As my father's hand reaches for the receiver, an inflammatory remark my stepmother says sends him charging back over to her.
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She was thoroughly conscious that she had a will of her own and would like a chance to exercise it, still, she knew that in many cases without her stepmother she would be like a rudderless ship, a guideless traveller.
Marcia Schuyler
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They are all Republicans except my stepmother, who is a liberal Democrat.
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Would their discussion result in his agreement to visit his stepmother?
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Are you taking wicked stepmother lessons?
The Sun
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His mother and stepmother are now friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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The orphaned Cinderella is the household drudge for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.
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What did you think of your stepmother telling somebody to shove it?
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But the nurse suffered the pangs of a baffled stepmother, and looked with novercal eyes of hatred and disgust upon little Sam that had stolen away the hearts of men and women from one that in _her_ eyes was a thousand times his superior.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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Portraits of Julia as she came of age showed her with her hair twisted into the same stiff, controlled nodus favored by her stepmother and aunt, under whose aegis she was now being brought up.22
Caesars’ Wives
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Santini's stepmother is ill, but the situation was not deemed serious enough to warrant his resignation.
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It bothers me that you have taken on the role of peacemaker when there are rows between your father and stepmother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rick noticed the glisten of unshed tears in his stepmother's eyes.
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she distrusts her stepmother
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Thereafter they were inseparable, despite the wicked stepmother status accorded by her stepchildren.
Times, Sunday Times
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So you're no evil stepmother?
Times, Sunday Times
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Well-documented cooperative species with joint-paternity clutches include the acorn woodpecker, pukeko, Tasmanian hen, dunnock, Galapagos hawk, trumpeter, and stepmother breeding units of the scrubwren.
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The wacky electric-blue wigs my stepmother decided we should all wear for Christmas dinner weren't quite how I had planned to accessorise my Alexander McQueen tweed.
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She with harsh stepmother Fiona (Jennifer · the Coolidge decoration) as well as the cunning unreasonable half blood elder sister lives in together.
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This attitude applies to stepmothers and adoptive mothers as well.
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Well my father went to the party with my stepmother and he brought my half sister and me along.
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Are you taking wicked stepmother lessons?
The Sun
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The stepmother is slapping her stepdaughter in the face. The stepmother should be put into jail. Her stepdaughter is beautiful and cute. Why doesn't she like her?
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Recently he and his father and stepmother went away together and I had a chance to take stock.
Times, Sunday Times
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She called out to her father, her stepmother and her stepsister.
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One of them, Merovech, attempted to outwit his stepmother by marrying Sigibert's widow, Brunhild.
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Thereafter they were inseparable, despite the wicked stepmother status accorded by her stepchildren.
Times, Sunday Times
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All children are from the same mother, as our stepmother did not beget any children by my father.
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She is hopelessly indentured to her wicked stepmother who treats her like a voluptuous doormat.
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Her father was a prominent surgeon, her stepmother, Paula Lindberg, a famous contralto.
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So far, we know this much: these women are mothers, or sometimes stepmothers; they are employed, generally full time, in demanding, high-profile jobs; their husbands are, broadly speaking, successful and affluent.
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Margaret, daughter of the King of Bamburgh was turned into a "laidly worm" (loathly or loathsome serpent) by her wicked stepmother, who was jealous of the lovely maid.
Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
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Martin calls the stepfamily a "tinderbox of sorts," when you consider the combination of the stepmother's relational tendencies with that of her often less emotional or relational husband and a bunch of resentful stepkids.
World of Psychology
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Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment.
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When they do appear it is often in highly stereotypical guises - evil hags, wicked stepmothers or outrageous prostitutes.
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Her wicked stepmother and father were sending her to a finishing school, in Ireland!
