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Updated: June 4, 2025
Emily was beside him, canning, cooking, and mothering. They said you couldn't grow pears around there. We ate a lot of pears, Joe thought. And plums, apples, rhubarb, strawberries, asparagus . . . The house smelled of geraniums from the solar greenhouse that his grandfather built onto the dining room long before anyone ever heard of a solar greenhouse.
If, later, a further advance be made, the low-flying contact machines again play their part of mothering the infantry.
Sometimes I was sure that her feeding-bottle had not been rinsed and her milk was not quite fresh but that only gave me the pleasure of scalding the one and boiling the other. More than once it flashed upon me that I was paying Mrs. Oliver to do all this but then what a deep delight it was to be mothering my own baby!
Jimmy discovered during those periods a new side to her character, a mothering tenderness that filled him with a feeling of content and happiness the moment that she entered the room, and which doubtless aided materially in his rapid convalescence, for until she had been permitted to see him Jimmy had suffered as much from mental depression as from any other of the symptoms of his disease.
She looked at him as he stood there, a little gray about the temples the most appealing ornament of some men to some women and for the life of her she could not help being moved by a kind of tenderness, sympathy, mothering affection.
"Beloved Lady, I understand: for there was once upon a time a sad, neglected child, an ugly little lad, barefooted and poverty-stricken after his mother's death. There was an ignorant and undisciplined boy " "You?" Her arms went around him protectingly, in a mothering and tender clasp. "Who else?
It pushes out, against all obstacles, and comes shyly and winsomely, but steadily and strongly, out to the brooding warmth, growing as it comes and growing most as it comes into closest touch with the warm brooder. Brooding is the mother of all love-words, friendship, wooing, pitying, helping, mothering, fathering, witnessing, believing.
"No," the pretty Spanish teacher said, "he didn't play that part; he was it!" It was going to be fine for him at Stanford, Honor's mothering thought raced ahead. The more he had to do, the more things he was interested in.... He came in grinning a few nights before the championship game. "Say, Skipper, what do you think they gave me on that essay?
Since the men have been going for months, crouching, creeping on all fours, starving, carrying their own death as mothers carry their children; since suffering and waiting and the passive acceptance of danger and pain have reversed the sexes, the women have felt strong, and even in their sensuality there has been a little glimmer of the new passion for mothering.
So Louizon brought home the little Pensonneau lad. Archange looked at him, and considered that here was another person to wait on her. As to keeping him clean and making clothes for him, they might as well have expected her to train the sledge dogs. She made him serve her, but for mothering he had to go to Madame Cadotte. Yet Archange far outweighed Madame Cadotte with him.
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