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Meanings of leave motherless in English

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Usage of leave motherless in English
1
She had been left motherless at the age of four; and the Park was vast.
Jacob's Room
2
She was the eldest of a family of five, left motherless when she was sixteen.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
3
Six little children were left motherless to face a "frowning world."
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
4
They had been left motherless when Tibby was born, when Helen was five and Margaret herself but thirteen.
Howards End
5
The first Lady Luxellian had died, and he was in great trouble because the little girls were left motherless.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
6
It needed no seer to tell that she was just left motherless, and placed in charge of her relations.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
7
She had been left motherless at ten years old, and brought up since away from home, except for holidays.
The History of David Grieve
8
I was so unfortunate as to be the youngest of five children who, soon after I was born, were left motherless.
Indian Boyhood
9
As she had early been left motherless, her father had sent her over in her fifteenth year to her aunt in Paris.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
10
Full of life, and hope, and happiness, she is foully and hideously murdered-herbabe left motherless, her young husband bereaved and desolate.
A Terrible Secret: A Novel
11
'Nice clane little faces!-leftmotherless now.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes
12
We could double our numbers, and what matter if the deck of every ship become a brothel, and children left motherless and crying on shore?
Throne of Jade
13
During that night she breathed her last, and I was left motherless; so, indeed, was dear Maud, to whom she had been truly a mother.
Mary Liddiard; Or, The Missionary's Daughter