"Mother's day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... folks were going to take the Brandon house this summer; and so you are the ones? It's a sightly old place; I used to go and see Miss Katharine. She must have left a power of china-ware. She set a great deal by the house, and she kept everything just as it used to be in her mother's day." ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... it is the 1st of May; and if that is not our Blessed Mother's day too, I'd like to know what is!" ...
— Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley
... even before the Charlottetown schooling, had a far better chance than her mother; for in her mother's day there was no free school in the island, and in families of ten and twelve it was only a turn and turn about that the children had at school. Since the free schools had been established many a grown man and woman had sighed curiously at the better luck of the youngsters ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson |
