"Mammy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "He went ashore directly after breakfast, and I don't much expect to see him aboard again until pretty late in the afternoon. But I expect you'll find him and Cap'n Comben either at Anderson's store, or at Mammy Williamson's hotel. Or, if you don't find 'em, you'll be sure to get news of 'em at one or the other of ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... to by-by. 'Night, mammy. 'Night, Rog.' She is about to offer him her cheek, then salutes instead, and rushes off, with ...
— Echoes of the War • J. M. Barrie
... thigh-bone, but it's cracked spang all the way across! You hated the machine-shop so bad when I sent you there, you went and stayed sick for over two years—and now, when I offer to take you out of it and give you the mint, you holler for the shop like a calf for its mammy! You're cracked! Oh, but I got a fine layout here! One son died, one quit, and one's a loon! The loon's all I got left! H. P. Ellersly's wife had a crazy brother, and they undertook to keep him at the house. First morning he was there he walked straight though a ten-dollar ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington
... for a stocking, And here's a foot for a shoe, And he has a kiss for daddy, And two for his mammy also. ...
— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies - Without Addition or Abridgement • Munroe and Francis
... "'Mammy,' said she, 'you've had a world of trouble with me, and you've had trouble of your own all your life; but I am not going to give you much more—I shall soon ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
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