MOTHER in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - mother in Arms and the Man
1  My dear mother, if I may call you so.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  Hush, mother, you're making me ridiculous.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
3  Don't leave my mother, Louka, whilst the soldiers are here.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
4  My mother and I can understand that notion, as you call it.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
5  You would pet him, and spoil him, and mother him to perfection.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
6  Really, mother, if you are going to take the jewellery, I don't see why you should grudge me my Arab.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
7  She very modestly entertained him for an hour or so and then called in her mother lest her conduct should appear unmaidenly.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  Only think, mother, I doubted him: I wondered whether all his heroic qualities and his soldiership might not prove mere imagination when he went into a real battle.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
9  Her reverie is interrupted by her mother, Catherine Petkoff, a woman over forty, imperiously energetic, with magnificent black hair and eyes, who might be a very splendid specimen of the wife of a mountain farmer, but is determined to be a Viennese lady, and to that end wears a fashionable tea gown on all occasions.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I