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"Mama" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Oh, mama," she exclaimed, "the noise I heard was two tramps who had come in on our piazza out of the rain. At least one of them is a tramp, and the other is the nicest looking boy, about the age of our Bert. He's sick and just as pale! But he's dressed very well, and I can't understand how they came to ...

— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.

... a year, now, since I saw mama," Imogen was saying, as they turned again from a long scrutiny of the crowded decks—the distance was as yet too great for individual recognition. "She didn't come over this summer as usual,—poor dear, how bitterly she must regret that now, though it was hardly ...

— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... ought to know me. You know that if I were to exercise my will firmly now—it would not waver if I called it forth—I could carry you off and spare you the flutter you will have to go through during our interlude with papa and mama.' ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... Eight means eight hours that she Sheba-ed with your Sheik— Nine spot means nine hours that I work hard every day— Ten spot means tenth of every month I brought you home my pay— The Jack is three-card Charlie who played me for a goat The Queen, that's my pretty Mama, also trying to cut my throat— The King stands for Sweet Papa Nunkie and he's goin' to wear the crown, So be careful you all ain't broke when the deal goes down! (He laughs—X'es to table, bringing piano stool ...

— Poker! • Zora Hurston

... of a Norman papa, Has, somehow or other, a Saxon mama: Though humble, yet far above mere vulgar loons, He's a sort of a sub in the Rufus dragoons; Has travelled, but comes home abruptly, the rather That some unknown rascal has murder'd his father; And scarce has he picked out, and stuck in ...

— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie

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