What is "motherless"

Usage examples of "motherless".

Down went the motherless babies as four ruthless hands pulled apart their cosey nest, and there, among the nibbled fragments, appeared enough finely printed, greenish paper, to piece out parts of two bank bills.

Motherless, sisterless Drou could scarcely have found a more knowledgeable bridal consultant.

At the back of his head he had that fear of women as something mysterious and unintelligible which belongs to a motherless and sisterless childhood, and a youth spent almost wholly in the company of men.

Alys Vorpatril was widely acknowledged as the premier social arbiter of Vorbarr Sultana, not least because of her frequent duties at the Imperial Residence as official welcomer for wifeless, motherless, sisterless Emperor Gregor.

Brown, the Pittsburgh minister, heard of Tommy Stringer, the motherless deaf-mute child whose father was unable to care for him, he had thought of Annie Sullivan and wrote to her in Tuscumbia, asking for advice and help.

Very likely the taboo against capturing wild horses could not survive without the Weejus to enforce it, and the motherless ones, once they settled down, were not likely to restore the matrilineal inheritance of wild Nomads.

And although I hate the Disneyesque clich of making every child a motherless tyke, I must admit that the clich works here.

They had long and heartily loved and honoured the soutar, whom they had known before the death of his wife, and for his sake and hers, both had always befriended the motherless Maggie.

Black men alleged to be killing, raping, mugging, stabbing, gangbanging, looting, rioting, selling drugs, pimping, ho-ing, having too many babies, dropping babies from tenement windows, fatherless, motherless, Godless, penniless.

As though that young lady could in any way shape or form be compared to the poor motherless hedgehogs, broken-winged birds, and injured rabbits she tended in the hutches beside the walled garden.

Motherless dog, she thought, seething, then compartmentalized that problem to deal with the more dangerous one before her.

And Clay, he--Oh, the po' motherless thing--I cain't talk abort it--I cain't bear to talk about it.

With his daughters as his fiendish backing group, yes, the three of them, Lat Manat Uzza, motherless girls laughing with their Abba, giggling behind their hands at Gibreel, what a trick we got in store for you, they giggle, for you and for that businessman on the hill.

Especially they would not want to convict, of a charge of second-degree murder, a young, attractive, and now motherless boy like Derek Peck, Jr.

Verminaard had been lodged in these deep mountains, motherless and virtually tutorless, his father lapsed from the Order and no longer a believer in Oath and Measure—or even the gods themselves.