| Withal, she was sheerly feminine, tender and soft and clinging, with the smouldering passion of the mate and the motherliness of the woman. |
| I'm not sure why men's pain doesn't inspire a whole lot of motherliness in their spouses. |
| These were not her people, and she was far from home, and no amount of fatherliness or motherliness could make it so. |
| All priests, my beloved sons, shall know my motherliness and the peace that I give. |
| The solemnity of the story is relieved by the humour of the rustic travellers at the Rainbow Inn, and the genial motherliness of Dolly Winthrop, who befriends Silas. |
| Anne Reid invests Mrs Elliot with a smothering motherliness, and Geoffrey Hutchings is quietly hilarious as her truculent husband. |
