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Her mother-heart was a place where confidences were kept.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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Her mother-heart was a place where confidences were kept.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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Her mother-heart was a place where confidences were kept.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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Her mother-heart was a place where confidences were kept.
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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She gathered up her baby once more; but when her eye fell upon its miserably short little gray tow-linen shirt and noted the contrast between its pauper shabbiness and her own volcanic eruption of infernal splendors, her mother-heart was touched, and she was ashamed.
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
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All the mother-heart in her was crying out and tearing itself with longing and pity ineffable.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous
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The Rev.Mr. Thorn has given the facts poetic form and made immortal that mother-heart whose love made holy -- if hallowed it needed to be -- the lonely burial-ground where rest the infant outcasts: --
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Lullabies are found in every land; everywhere the joyous mother-heart bursts forth into song.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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To have a home and mother-heart open to him like that in the midst of all his sorrow and perplexity fairly unmanned him.
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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It is only the instinctive mother-heart that can truly realise the bond that draws together the nurselings of the common homeland.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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