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How to use motherly in a sentence

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She smiled and placed her hand on his cheek in a motherly sort of gesture, thanking him again for the Merlot.
Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
Her appearance was motherly, and she had an aura about her that just seemed to welcome Katherine in.
She smiled understandingly, tucking some hair behind my ear in an almost motherly sort of way.
The older woman waved even as she welcomed her son home with a motherly hug.
On the mantelpiece is a small hard-backed book full of poems about motherly love, illustrated with florid pictures of angelic families.
There are the same anxieties, the same pains and disappointments but those motherly instincts are still there.
Beth is distant and cold to Conrad, unable to show him the type of motherly love he needs and desires.
And her motherly demeanor makes it easier for other staff members to seek her advice.
She also plays a motherly role to her nieces and nephews, since she considers them her own.
The woman, from whom he got his blue eyes and brown hair, immediately took him into a tight motherly hug.
Jane, oddly, was showing her motherly instincts as she rubbed each of their backs with her hand.
A short, plump and positively motherly lady appeared in the doorway, ushering us in.
Her mother got the point and got rid of the blatent sneaky smile and replaced it with a friendly, motherly smile.
His is a tale of jealousy, envy and treachery, but also of motherly love, shrewdness and adventure.
Equally, the power of corporate towers is manifest in up-looking, phallic worship, and in the motherly surveillance of the world below.
She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
Anna placed a comforting, motherly hand on her shoulder, making her look up.
Just as women's motherly character was decoupled from their reproductive role, female love was dissociated from female sexuality.
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Anna's youth, her fervor, and her remarkable ability drew out all of Susan's motherly instincts of affection and protectiveness.
With her daughter she became motherly and admonitory in her official third person.
Many a centimo would find its way from her pocket to his, and he would think her more motherly than ever.
As for the Country Girl, we are far from suggesting a separation between the motherly and the daughterly ideals.
It is quite possible, of course, that his school really had scanted the motherly touch.
She had told Mrs. MacFayden her intention, and had enlisted the warm interest of that motherly Scotswoman.
Then he ordered all out of the left-luggage office, except Duncan Urquhart and the station master's wife, a quiet motherly woman.
She looked at Good Indian afterward, studying his face with motherly solicitude.
I came down and threw myself, repentant and wretched, into her motherly arms.
Moreover, she communicated her tidings with all sorts of motherly precautions.
Mrs. Mortimer put her motherly arms about the girl, but she found no pliancy.
The landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head.
With motherly solicitude, he insisted that Tom get to his feet and walk about.
For her inner circle Peggy Paton was a most motherly old maid.
It is doubtful as to what feeling was uppermost in her motherly bosom.
And she appears so truly goodthere is something so motherly and kindhearted about her, that it wins upon one directly.
She removed his clothes too, bullying him in a motherly way.
You will be under the care of a motherly good sort of woman, of whose kindness to you I can have no doubt.
The patronne is a motherly creature with half a dozen of her own brood.
March's motherly welcome, their cheerful society, and the comfort he took in that humble home of theirs.
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