"Mother-in-law" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the islands by Captain Keeling, their first notable visitor was Captain John Clunis-Boss, who in 1814 touched in the ship Borneo on a voyage to India. Captain Boss returned two years later with his wife and family and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Dymoke, and eight sailor-artisans, to take possession of the islands, but found there already one Alexander Hare, who meanwhile had marked the little atoll as a sort of Eden for a seraglio ...
— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum
... palace intrigue, and destitute as he was of any of the qualities of a great statesman or general, it is no wonder that his reign, which lasted for seventeen years, was continually disturbed by conspiracies and rebellions. In most of these rebellions his mother-in-law, Verina, widow of Leo, an ambitious and turbulent woman, played ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin
... Imperial livery; he is to the entire population of India the exponent of British Rule; he is the mother-in-law of liars, the high-priest of extortioners, and the ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
... and how much material for conversation I shall bring with me. The end of last week I spent in Dresden, where I called upon our friends, the Ritters. Sascha Ritter, our Weymar Court musician, has been blessed with a little daughter, whose god-father I shall have the honour to be. His mother-in-law has been staying here for some weeks, and Johanna Wagner is expected ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 • Francis Hueffer (translator)
... perhaps my future mother-in-law and I aren't going to get along fine," he announced to the world in ...
— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks
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