The motherless family's pain is palpable and the sense of hopelessness can almost be smelt. |
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Inger's eyes grew misty, touched both by Adam's compliment and the sadness of a motherless child, such a one as Adam had so recently been. |
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The last two months have seen the release of three family films featuring single dads raising motherless only-children. |
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Billy, is motherless, his dad and brother jobless, and he prefers ballet to biffo. |
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Countless readers have bonded with the character of Janie Crawford, a motherless girl raised by her grandmother. |
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So from one day to the next we found ourselves both fatherless and motherless. |
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She was educated largely at home, where, as the youngest of the motherless family, she may have fallen under the Wesleyan influence of her aunt. |
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In 1992, 90,000 American women between the ages of 25 and 54 died and 125,000 kids under 18 were left motherless. |
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Every year, more than one million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal death. |
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The doctor with his motherless sons, so full of promise in the beginning, is the one steady presence whose decline we achingly watch and empathize with. |
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This new orphanage can house up to 80 children at a time, children who are fatherless and motherless. |
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Growing up motherless, Mary also lost her sister to suicide. |
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Mrs. Lorne treats Johnny kindly because she knows he is motherless. |
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Hamas's goal is to strike deeply and in a deadly way, leaving its victims motherless, childless and limbless. |
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Frail and sick, the motherless child was returned to his master's home and nursed back to health. |
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Mrs. Judi Longfield: Do you have the same kinds of data on motherless families? |
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Also motherless newborns for whom no foster mom can be found, will often have to be raised with tube feeding. |
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Every year, millions of children are left motherless and an estimated one million children die as a result of the death of their mother. |
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Annually, 529,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth, and more than 1 million children are left motherless. |
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At least 450,000 children are in the camps, among them, the fatherless and motherless. |
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A motherless child is also four times more likely to die than a child whose mother is still alive. |
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They are fatherless, they are motherless, or else they haven't seen their parents for so long that it amounts to the same thing. |
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He is a motherless boy with an irresponsible alcoholic father, a fading rodeo star, who has trouble holding down a job and keeping the household together. |
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When motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award, I felt I could exhale, after working frenetically. |
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Behind these statistics are the stories of promising lives cut short and of the motherless children left behind. |
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Many friends knew the tale of her remarkable childhood spent on the cattle stations, with her father and his motherless brood of five young children. |
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She'd nearly had enough. She was ready to go home, forget all about it. Be the birthdayless, motherless Mattie Browne for the rest of her life. |
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We talk about fatherless families, but how about motherless families? |
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Well, I'd just, come out of the Last Chance something that looks like a cross between an Injun wickiup and a motherless circus tent. |
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As a codependent nudge with no personal boundaries, her character Pookie Adams is a motherless coed eager to imprint on an object. |
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Son of a motherless goat, that's a lot of storage. |
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The monastery where Ottavio is later sent becomes a metaphor of the motherless, femaleless family to which the boy now belongs. |
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It is mid-November, three months after Jandyra's death, and the festive season has been brought forward to give her motherless daughters, who are just eight and 11, some hope of happiness. |
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The document is clear: wads of cash may not change hands in return for poor motherless mites. These rules look fine on paper but are difficult to enforce. |
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Neverthless, you sons of motherless goats, the object of the game is to move your game piece around the board, and be the first to finish. |
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Those sons of motherless goats! God have mercy on their sanctimonious souls. |
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Wireheaded son of a motherless goat, I was trying to help you! |
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In three breathtaking days of pogroms and horrific violence, the Okhrana, the Tsar's secret police, chase a motherless 17-year-old across the steppes of 1881 Russia. |
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Motherless Brooklyn was good, but would you have purchased that in hardcover? |
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It was Motherless Brooklyn, Lethem's fifth novel in as many years, that finally landed him back in the old neighborhood, with a bang that woke the literary world. |
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