"Ma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Face the truth, ma'am. If you're ever in a tight place, we'll send you what help we can, hard men, such as can't be raised in your cities, to keep the flag flying, but we stop there. Don't think we belong to you—we stand firm on our own feet, a ...
— Prescott of Saskatchewan • Harold Bindloss
... at night I am not tired, for I have been doing nothing all day that I care for; and then I sits down and stares about me, and at the fire, till I become frighted; and then I shouts to my brother Denis, or to the gasoons, 'Get up, I say, and let's be doing something; tell us a tale of Finn-ma-Coul, and how he lay down in the Shannon's bed and let the river flow down his jaws!' Arrah, Shorsha, I wish you would come and stay with us, and tell us some o' your sweet stories of your ownself and the snake ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... nothing but it," quietly retorted Bob, passing his hand over his head; "you can't deny the cutting, ma'am." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 28, 1841 • Various
... bed for stealing jam," her youngest cousin informed her unctuously. "My! She did howl! I guess Ma ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... Nov. 8. Maurice Ravel's orchestral suite "Ma Mere l'Oye" given at a concert in Aeolian Hall, New York City. And at the same concert William Becher's "Pianoforte Concerto" ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee
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