'And then you'll come up to aunt's room -- I call godmother aunt now -- and take tea with Gorman and us all.'. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference
You know, I want to embrace the word godmother so it doesn't have that connotation and sort of - oh, it means you're an old spinster. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'] Reference
She's been called the godmother of punk music, but she bristles at labels. From Wordnik.com. [Spector and Smith, Making Rock History] Reference
My godmother was a powerful member of the Winter Court, but she couldn't hold a candle to Mab. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
"Yes, that's all very well," said Teresa, "but your godmother was a whole lot older than you are.". From Wordnik.com. [Paula the Waldensian] Reference
Brown was living in a tent with a woman identified as her godmother, and more than 20 other persons. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica Gleaner Online] Reference
She was received most cordially; her godmother was a very friendly woman, with a round, smiling countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
Being a godmother is the best...that is one lucky baby to have you as such an important part of his/her life!. From Wordnik.com. [Chad and Rebekah Goulas!] Reference
Music is in this Senegalese native's blood, almost literally -- her godmother is the famed Cesaria Evora, Cape Verde's musical queen. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Music as Preservation and Cultural Force] Reference
Both the caseworker and the "godmother" were finally charged. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Looking Out for You]
A name you will marvel at in a dog of mine; but his godmother was the widow of. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Allie Billups is Myra's best friend, also a close friend to Ginny, and she is "godmother" to the children, functioning as a third mother. From Wordnik.com. [GINNY BATES BACKGROUND AND CHARACTER SUMMARY] Reference
Bev Harris, the "godmother" of the election reform movement (the Executive Director of Black Box Voting Inc.), was also at the conference. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from the WeCount2006 Voting Integrity Conference] Reference
My 'godmother' was keeping her bed 'with rheumatism' and grief. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
She is, in effect, the "godmother" of the global swissnex network. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to UAE residents spend $6.6b a year on overseas holiday trips] Reference
Wen is brother-in-law of so-called "godmother" of Chongqing's underworld. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
"My godmother was a gentlewoman of small means; but she was accomplished. From Wordnik.com. [The Peace Egg and Other tales] Reference
The "godmother" of Appalachia's mountaintop removal movement has died of cancer at age. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Among the gang-lords is Xie Caiping, known as the city's "godmother" and Wen's sister-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
My godmother was my sister Mary. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman I Was Born to Be] Reference
'godmother' of the relationship between Charles and Diana. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Hackel, the little girl's godmother, was on American Flight 11. From Wordnik.com. [Love And Loss] Reference
How it works: You chow while Cinderella's godmother bobbidies around. From Wordnik.com. [PARKS: HOLD ON TO YOUR STOMACH] Reference
As my godmother Patti Stanger says, "women fall in love between the ears.". From Wordnik.com. [Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: BBM is the Worst] Reference
Sheffield Wednesday have a fairy godmother and, remarkably, it is a high street bank. From Wordnik.com. [Co-operative Bank extends credit to save Sheffield Wednesday] Reference
And his godmother, Ruth Clark, has a job waiting for him at her temp agency in New York. From Wordnik.com. [IT TAKES A VILLAGE] Reference
BRAND: I've read this in a couple of places, that writers have dubbed you a rock godmother. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'] Reference
Support continues to build for Warren, the intellectual godmother of the bureau, in the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbs: Elizabeth Warren Is A 'Terrific Candidate'] Reference
"If you wish hard enough," he says, "the fairy godmother will come and solve all your problems.". From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Rude Surprise] Reference
It was the first time her godmother, then in her 80s, ever opened up to her about the Nazi period. From Wordnik.com. [Good Hearts, Grim Horrors] Reference
Horrible Environment: Viola Spolin, the godmother of modern improvisation, said, "Act on environment, and environment will act on you.". From Wordnik.com. [Mike Bonifer: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Game] Reference
Paulette Kirksey said that her godmother, Rosie Ahmed of Gadsden, Alabama, and her husband, Saleem Ahmed, were among those on the plane. From Wordnik.com. [Plane Crash Kills 152 In Pakistan] Reference
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