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relating to a mother; or characteristic of parents — such as to care for and help to develop
- What he loved above all else in the maternal edifice, that which aroused his soul, and made it open its poor wings, which it kept so miserably folded in its cavern, that which sometimes rendered him even happy, was the bells.1.4.3 — Vol 1 Bk 4 Chpt 3 — Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse (54% in)
- Madame de Gondelaurier herself, still maternally seated in her big armchair, had not the heart to scold him.2.8.6 — Vol 2 Bk 8 Chpt 6 — Three Human Hearts Differently.... (18% in)
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