"Mamma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "O, mamma," said a boy, who had just come up from below, "there's a negro trader on board, and he's brought four or five slaves ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... lashing the air, one hoof pawing savagely, worthy representative of all the horrors it typified, and which she explained with maddening perspicuity. That night, when papa tore himself away from the club room at one o'clock, and met mamma on the doorstep—just coming home from a supper at Delmonico's after an opera party—they were ascending the stairs, when frantic cries drove from her ears the echoes of 'Traviata's' witching strain. Thinking only a conflagration would ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... Mr. Story-Teller?" cried the children's mamma. "The story is a story, no doubt, but it can not be counted in, for Obed and Orah did not really ...
— Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... the name of Ellen. Ellen's father has one sitting room and four daughters. The four daughters are engaged to four nice young gentlemen. At what time in the evening does papa and mamma crawl out of the dumb waiter and how much is the ...
— The Silly Syclopedia • Noah Lott
... your oar, for I won't have it," said the lady. "And you'd show a deal more correct feeling if you wasn't so much about the house just at present. My darling mamma,"—and then she put her handkerchief up to her eyes—"always told William that when he and I became one, there should be five hundred pounds down;—and of course he expects it. Now, sir, you often talk about your ...
— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope
|
