What is "stepmother"

Usage examples of "stepmother".

The boy ran home to tell his father and stepmother, for Jonathan was the son of Lord Sackbut by his first and divorced wife.

I was a small boy and my dear stepmother Shonda yet lived, he was a noble Crown Prince, a loving husband and father, and a man of sanguine and kindly spirit.

When they found Snowdrop lifeless on the ground, they at once distrusted her stepmother.

The stepdame was more excellent in beauty then honesty : for she loved this young man her sonne in law, either because she was unchast by nature, or because she was enforced by fate of stepmother, to commit so great a mischiefe.

Her stepmother had been a national of Said Ababa, but her father was an American.

After Saidee was married and taken to Algiers, my stepmother began to imagine herself in love with an American from Indiana, whom she met in Paris.

But so far from perishing in the flower of his age, Fritz Brunner had the pleasure of laying his stepmother in one of those charming little German cemeteries, in which the Teuton indulges his unbridled passion for horticulture under the specious pretext of honoring his dead.

A wealthy stepmother would invest in improvements to the Pallars estates -- a new winery, perhaps, or new vines.

Light seemed to gleam through the dust of the freckles as she walked beside him, across the brilliant green of the grass toward Henley Street Still, she continued her odyssey of life with her stepmother and -sister.

There used to be in the gallery of the Luxembourg a picture of Hippolytus and Phxdra, in which the beautiful young man, who had kindled a passion in the heart of his wicked stepmother, always reminded me of Willis, in spite of the shortcomings of the living face as compared with the ideal.

Prince holding one of them as though it were a rare rosebud, gazing at her with wide, awed and adoring eyes, while her stepmother and stepsisters stood against the wall gnashing their teeth.

The old fairy-tale theme of the wicked stepmother and stepsisters is relevant here.

My stepmother Annie leaned forward, closing her copy of Captain from Castile and bookmarking it with a paperclip.

As I stood there, racking my brain to recall it, it occurred to me that even if I did manage to reach her, it would be doubtful that, having just been fired by my stepmother, Celina would be any too eager to help with a family research project.

Amazed to see them arriving with her dreary stepmother, whom she usually passed off as the younger children's au pair, Natasha was forced to speak to Kitty in order to meet them.