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  • It was Orange Juice—so called because she tended to drool—our prize Borneo orang-utan matriarch, zoo star and mother of two fine boys, surrounded by a mass of black spiders that crawled around her like malevolent worshippers.†  (source)
  • In Meena's brothel, the tyrant was the family matriarch, Ainul Bibi.†  (source)
  • The matriarchs of the families were jealous of Genevieve's power.†  (source)
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  • On the surface, Belle remained the cool and focused prairie matriarch.†  (source)
  • Those wanderings led him to the prostrate redlight district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, were still waiting beside their photographs.†  (source)
  • A woman's husband can go fight the invaders while she controls the household, enjoying the love and respect of her sons, expecting one day to rule as matriarch over her daughters-in-law and their children.†  (source)
  • They had patriarchs and matriarchs but they had no prince before him.†  (source)
  • The tree presided over the woods like a benevolent matriarch, protecting its inhabitants under the shelter of her branches.†  (source)
  • And no group systematically abuses young women more cruelly than mothers-in-law, who serve as household matriarchs in much of the world and take charge of disciplining the younger women.†  (source)
  • "But YaYa's too old," said Max aloud, puzzling over how the sphere would fit on Rowan's Matriarch.†  (source)
  • I now knew that Molly and Roger, the bride and groom, had lived together for three years, a fact that one gobbler relative was sure contributed to the recent death of the family matriarch.†  (source)
  • The wounding of their matriarch seemed to take the fight out of the Reardens, who retreated, carrying the big woman.†  (source)
  • I have no doubt that Smeagol's grandmother was a matriarch, a great person in her way, but to talk of her possessing many Elven-rings was absurd, and as for giving them away, it was a lie.†  (source)
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