Her father was a Scandinavian and her mother colored. The maternal grandfather was colored, and the maternal grandmother was an alcoholic Irish woman and died in an insane hospital. It is possible, also, that there is Indian blood in the family. The mother kept an immoral resort and drank at times. The father is said, even by his wife's relative, to have died some years ago of a broken heart about her career. She died of tuberculosis a few years after him. Amanda was the only child. About the early developmental history we have no reliable information.英文原著 · 《Pathology of Lying》
In the morning of a spring day when the cuckoos cried in the woods, and May blossomed thick, white and pink, in all the hedges, the bells in the grey church-steeple at Camylott rang out a joyous, jangling peal, telling all the village that the heir had been born at the Tower. Children stopped in their play to listen, men at their work in field and barn; good gossips ran out of their cottage door, wiping their arms dry, from their tubs and scrubbing-buckets, their honest red faces broadening into maternal grins.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
We were a neighborhood of large families, and most of us enjoyed the privilege of "a little wholesome neglect." Our tether was a long one, and when, grown a little older, we occasionally asked to have it lengthened, a maternal "I don't care" amounted to almost unlimited liberty.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"I'll make you a nice hot supper, miss, in half an hour," said the woman, maternally, as if she were going to _give_ it her.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"I do not object to the change," said Zoe, smiling maternally on him; "but you will be good enough to imitate me in one thing--you will always be polite to Lord Uxmoor."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Indeed, you have pleased me, child! Now go upstairs, and get on your traveling-dress, and count on my maternal affection as long as you make Charles happy."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
But there are some mothers who don't get to take advantage of this maternal innovation-- mothers like Lynette scavo, who was no longer able to rest on weekends because her twins no longer received play date invitations, ever since they had convinced sasha eden's boy that a pair of magic wings would美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Ever since I got pregnant, I have the strongest maternal instincts.美剧 · 《Friends》
But apparently your body does a nesting, very maternal, primal thing... where it retains nutrients- some sort of molecular physiology thing.美剧 · 《Modern Family》