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If it is the will of the beneficent gods that you find the unmothered woman of great beauty in time, then it shall be so.

From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington

The accidents and vicissitudes of early chickenhood are serious matters to the unmothered chick, and they must not be overlooked by the breeder who figures his profits on paper.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

A sudden realization of the loneliness of Lydia's unmothered girlhood, of her innocent faith in him, touched the best that was in him.

From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré

GOD gave to me a child in part, Yet wholly gave the father's heart: Child of my soul, O whither now, Unborn, unmothered, goest thou?

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

This helplessness pressing against her breast recalled her poignant childhood, unmothered yet often in passionate grief groping for maternal arms.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen