There was no time left for himself because his mother refused to allow him to skip a day, an hour, a moment.

The mother refused, but the king had it done while she was at a ball.

But his mother, a credit card company employee, refused to let him stay with her.

He left before I was born and my mother refused to speak of him.

The mother refuses to feed her, though the father remains kind.

The two mothers refused to leave until they learned that the police were on their way.

After that her mother had refused to look at anything else.

Still, her mother refused even then to go to the garden club.

But his mother refused to let her son work full-time.

Their mother had refused to take them to live with her.