"Maternally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... landladies wonder maternally why he never gets drunk, and generally mistake him for an author until he pays ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller
... oppose the demon of ennui with the aid of a cool temperament and a brilliant wit; at sixty-eight, whatever ardour had been secretly stored up in her nature escaped to lavish itself half-maternally on Horace Walpole. Her young companion and reader, who became a rival and robbed her salon of its brilliance, Mlle. de Lespinasse (1732?-76) might cherish a calm friendship for D'Alembert. When M. de Guibert came to succeed M. de Mora in her affections, she poured out the lava ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... was recognized by all; they knew and worshiped her. A wilder cry, a mightier joy, made up of mingled cheers and tears, went up at sight of her. Her bosom heaved, her lips trembled. At the thought of her country's salvation her glorious eyes grew soft and moist. Lovingly, almost maternally, she held out her arms to her ...
— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton
... of a handsome young couple, with glowing hearts in their breasts, through a moonlit, fragrant summer night! Their feet do not feel the earth on which they tread, but seem to be floating on clouds. Nothing is left of the world save these two and the night which maternally conceals them—he and she, naught else, like Adam and Eve, when they were the ...
— How Women Love - (Soul Analysis) • Max Simon Nordau
... maternally, "in France we were living at high pressure. Now everything's different. We mustn't be silly. Run away, Dick, just as I told you, and leave me to talk ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown |
