I admit, of the nearly one million lawyers in the US, you could probably drown 90 per cent and only their mothers would grieve.

My mother and sisters could grieve; I would have to endure.

I had not liked to see my mother put the child to her breast, and should not have grieved much if it had died.

"And a mother would be grieving her firstborn tonight."

She knew her mother had grieved for her proud solitude.

But it would seem that her mother still grieves for her.

"You are a mother," he said; "every mother grieves for her child."

The mother, a pretty, fragile creature, who, before her marriage, had been a milliner, grieved herself to death over the loss of her husband.

His mother had grieved for that, but the boy found it intriguing.

"The victim's mother and father still grieve to this day for their only child," he said.