With the speed of a watchful mother, Sir Andrew said, "Look: there's Buecleuch."

ON a hot summer afternoon in an affluent Boston suburb, the town swimming pool is swarming with watchful mothers and their noisy young children at play.

Here, she is a devoted, watchful mother.

But, he added, "she always has been a faithful and affectionate wife, and a careful, tender, indulgent, and watchful mother to our children."

Their watchful mother was on the opposite side, staring out into the savanna twilight.

Richard returned the little white kid to its watchful mother and stood, hooking his thumbs behind his multilayered leather belt.

At the far end was the cradle with the baby, his watchful mother at his side.

For a few moments today they became children again, the grizzled men and white-haired ladies, the fathers with middle-age paunches, the watchful mothers clutching diaper bags.

There are other, walk-on characters, including the watchful mother who instinctively distrusts her daughter's choice in suitors: "To abolish seduction is a mother's goal."

He was called "the terror of jealous husbands as well as of watchful mothers".