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But what Lisconnel often said that it "thought badder of" was the stepmotherly treatment which seemed to be the lot of the little girl Katty.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

Nature then seems here to have provided us only in a stepmotherly fashion with the faculty required for our end.

From The Critique of Practical Reason by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

As to stepmotherly feelings, the "injusta noverca" has passed into a proverb with all nations.

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard

Friedrich soon had a stepmother, and neglect was succeeded by stepmotherly attention; but a maternal uncle took pity on him, and gave him a home for some years at Stadt-Ilm.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The protecting element restored to her nerves the strength which the stepmotherly earth had taken from them.

From The Nameless Castle by Jókai, Mór