"Mother's son" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... understand, Kinoos," Negore said gently. "But I shall make thee understand. Know that I was away on the hunt of the bear, with Kamo-tah, my mother's son. And Kamo-tah fought with a great bear. We had no meat for three days, and Kamo-tah was not strong of arm nor swift of foot. And the great bear crushed him, so, till his bones cracked like dry sticks. Thus I found him, very sick and groaning upon the ground. And there was no ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London
... too, would be pleasanter than sitting indoors, don't you think? The thickest walls have long ears, Langholm, when every servant in the place is under notice. The whole lot? Oh, dear, yes—every mother's son and daughter of them. It is most amusing; every one of them wants to stay and be forgiven. The neighbors are little better. The excuses they have stooped to make, some of them! I suppose they thought that we should either flee the country or give them the sanguinary ...
— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung
... I hate it! I can't abide it, Camilla. He's a nice lad, though he is his mother's son; and Lenore's heart is set on him, and I can't bear ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... he thine own mother's son, Still, thou art king, and the law stands. It were not meet the balance swerved, The sword were broken ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... Because some bad boys played that joke on old Growdy he seems to have it in for every mother's son in Stanhope. I met him on the road this afternoon when I was out with a light wagon after some feed. He was on the way to town to deliver a big load of truck. Everybody's entitled to half the road; ain't ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren
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