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  • The wounding of their matriarch seemed to take the fight out of the Reardens, who retreated, carrying the big woman.†  (source)
  • In Meena's brothel, the tyrant was the family matriarch, Ainul Bibi.†  (source)
  • At their center, Max glimpsed Dame Mala, the matriarch of her clan.†  (source)
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  • "Carrots," and tears trickled down the cheeks of the matriarch.†  (source)
  • The matriarchs of the families were jealous of Genevieve's power.†  (source)
  • Sara Mahmoody Ghodsi was the matriarch of the family, whom everyone addressed with a title of deep respect, Ameh Bozorg, "Great-aunt."†  (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)
  • Doña Zaida, once a formidable matriarch who ruled her eight sons by a resolute jealousy, spent long afternoons watching novelas on television and perfuming her thickening wrists.†  (source)
  • They had patriarchs and matriarchs but they had no prince before him.†  (source)
  • Viola Buckner, an island matriarch and an important bridge in the tenuous relationship between blacks and whites on the island, left home during the summer for an operation.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • Grandmother was the matriarch and had led an exemplary life; Third Sister had accomplished nothing.†  (source)
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