There are times when a woman's love is all motherliness.

And they were so chilly with their son that he finds Iris's motherliness irresistible.

I felt protected, enveloped by motherliness, was in peace.

It celebrates the innocence, devoutness, and motherliness of the poet's dead mother.

I feel an obscure resentment against her motherliness.

And she herself had been startled by the realization that it held, on her side, an undeniable element of motherliness.

He felt rather foolish, tender towards her innocence of this motherliness, and quite flattered.

His mother smiled, softening her handsome features into motherliness as she extended a welcoming hand.

Upon which muddled speech she tucked him in with a brisk motherliness and started off down the ward.

According to her biographers, her innate motherliness put visitors at ease.

There was a curious quality of motherliness in her attitude to me that something in my nature answered and approved.

If looks went for anything, he was the very opposite of his wife, who was all motherliness and charity, good will and good nature.

Other women, they said, forfeited feelings of "motherliness" and "will turn into the kind of hard people they may not want to be."

She creates a simple white-clothed figure who offers a pragmatic earth motherliness that keeps Scrooge constantly off balance.

But you lack motherliness."

Kait's gentle motherliness had urned to ruthless egoism for herself and her young.

She had a motherliness that reminded him of Mistress al'Vere and had him feeling welcome from her first smile.

Toward Rand her motherliness extended to warm smiles and a quick snack whenever he came by the inn, but she did as much for every young man in the area.

Withal, she was sheerly feminine, tender and soft and clinging, with the smouldering passion of the mate and the motherliness of the woman.

A hopeful, loving, earnest face with a tender touch of motherliness in it, and perhaps the shadow of a grief that has softened but not saddened it."

I just thought it was motherliness - a kind of calm, fond assurance that 'mother knows best'.... I have to phone Paul and congratulate him."

Motherliness does not immediately come to mind in the case of Switzerland's most prominent woman - this small woman with a large shock of short, white hair and dark, mischievous eyes.

But Roberta, for all her handsome, dark solidity, her motherliness, and Faye, like a flimsy chick or little bird huddling there behind Roberta's large shoulder, were vulnerable.

But one woman wise in her own motherliness always answered hopefully: "Don't you be troubled; Nater knows what's good for us, and works in her own way.