foster-mother

• “But Rome is my foster-mother, and were I untrue to her, of little pride, of little worth would be my love for you.”

  Chapter 17

• “But even beyond that, it was more the people that I met later on in life that were such a great influence on me, like y foster-mother, Betsey Shirley.”

  The Huffington Post: Zorianna Kit: Star of Buck Speaks Out About What You Didn't See in the Film

• “They were spiritual orphans then, not yet embracing, as foster-mother, the Catholic church.”

  The Virgin of Guadalupe celebration in Oaxaca

• ““We welcome you also, as a daughter is welcomed by her foster-mother, to the land where you received an American education,” he gushed.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Last Empress

• “Oh, it seems to me we have often more cause to be grateful to a foster-mother than to our own mother.”

  John Gabriel Borkman

• “In Celtic mythology, the Lughnasadh festival is said to have been begun by the god Lugh, as a funeral feast and games commemorating his foster-mother, Tailtiu, who died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture.”

  Archive 2008-04-01

• “Frances Mans, foster-mother of pupil Gweneth Mulder, said cellphones and e-mail correspondence were out of bounds during the week.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “Kepler, I think, it is who praises poverty as the foster-mother of genius; but Bernard Palissy was nearer the truth when he said: — Pauvret� emp阠he bons esprits de parvenir (poverty hinders fine minds from succeeding).”

  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions

• “My mother was a foster-mother, so she had somewhere around 300 children over the ages, but even that number strikes me as a minority.”

  Unlocked Wordhoard

• “In some villages it is customary for the foster-mother of the bear to utter piercing wails while he is delivered to his murderers, and after he is slain to beat each one of them with a branch of a tree.”

  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

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