Up the long dusty road they came, mothers protectively herding young ones while fathers provided a rearguard.
Her mother herded her past me with a harried smile.
There had been a very interesting article on vapor and condensation in one of her father's scientific journals, and Rebecca had been happily engrossed in it this afternoon in the library until her mother herded her into the solarium, where she was forced to poke at the pianoforte for the rest of the afternoon.
By then, the last remaining mothers had herded their children away.
After thanking him profusely, the mother herded her daughter out the door.
Anxious mothers herded their children safely out of sight.
The mother made a quiet granting noise and herded her offspring back into the shrubbery, leaving Renie shaken but relieved.
As the two men left the dining room, the doors were thrown open for the first breakfasters of the day-a horde of pale children, who shouted and wept as their grim-faced mothers herded them with pleas and cuffs to the buffet table.
