Geneva became the foster-mother of many great men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

Children of the same foster-mother are also not allowed to marry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

America -- they have come to their foster-mother, and they love her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tin Soldier] Reference

Kent -- the foster-mother of the Saxons, 'we are told, on this occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

Hadding, thus bereft of his foster-mother, chanced to be made an ally in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

The discreet foster-mother refers the lad to her husband, Jehoiada, now approaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Nay, he has just touchingly asked his foster-mother, observed by him to be in tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

For it is by one foster-mother and instructress that an art was built up for you both. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference

The shore, at best, had been only a foster-mother; the hill was the true child of the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference

She told him that she was only his foster-mother, and that in reality he was the son of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

Each of them went to the house of his father and mother, of his foster-mother and foster-father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference

Cuchulainn appealed to him by his foster-brotherhood, and Scathach, the foster-mother of them both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference

Oh, it seems to me we have often more cause to be grateful to a foster-mother than to our own mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gabriel Borkman] Reference

But now she was content to live in the bright, friendly land that was so kindly a foster-mother to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

= -- The school is expected to be the foster-mother of every American child, whether native or adopted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

I have the telegram that was our first news of it, and the letter that followed from his foster-mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder Canyon]

When he came, a spell was applied, according to the directions of his foster-mother and certain witches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

His oath was founded, he averred, upon the declaration of a man, the husband of the foster-mother, a certain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

But Rome is my foster-mother, and were I untrue to her, of little pride, of little worth would be my love for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 17] Reference

Daniel soon felt a childish reverence for his foster-father, and toward his foster-mother he showed a trusting love.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Long Years and Other Stories] Reference

Spreading out a handkerchief, I put the awful atom on it gingerly, while the foster-mother reiterated her counsel to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

Amy nursed her foster-mother with the tenderest care and bestowed as much love upon her as if she were her own mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Long Years and Other Stories] Reference

Only then did she drop down into the grass in the sun, with all of the pleasure of her foster-mother dragon in basking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elvenborn]

On the morning of his fourth birthday, a big man who smelled of horses had taken him from the hearth of his latest foster-mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

He said farewell to power on the first of August, and his foster-mother had died on that day, so then it was he set his feast-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

Frances Mans, foster-mother of pupil Gweneth Mulder, said cellphones and e-mail correspondence were out of bounds during the week.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Lady of Loch Awe would wed again, and his foster-mother sorrowed most of all, for she felt sure that her beloved Colin was not dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

My mother was a foster-mother, so she had somewhere around 300 children over the ages, but even that number strikes me as a minority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlocked Wordhoard] Reference

Troubadour Brother, with a revengeful and quite unpresentable gipsy foster-mother, would have proved very trying persons to live with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference

This "foster-mother of philosophers" evidently wished to make sure of her own safety, however matters might turn out in the next world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

At the age of six his mother died also, and he spent the first ten years among the Bedouins under the care of a foster-mother named Halima.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

“We welcome you also, as a daughter is welcomed by her foster-mother, to the land where you received an American education,” he gushed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Empress] Reference