| 1. | Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 2. | Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 4. | With almost maternal solicitude she urged him to let his nature open to the full she became his confessor. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | "I'm not hungry, mother," was the revised edition which the freckle-faced boy offered to the maternal ear. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 6. | She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 7. | From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | As for the sons and the daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must take care of themselves at least, with only the maternal help. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | Charity carried the friendless thing to the house of its rich maternal relations it was reared by an aunt-in- law, called I come to names now Mrs. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |