Lonely Ja-eun misses her real mother that she likes Bok-ja's motherly care.

Deprived in infancy of motherly care and love, he was brought up by his father and aunts.

He has held me up to all the world as the epitome of wifely devotion, of motherly care.

Even before she had come to her full womanhood under Christiana's motherly care she would have been an example to Ruth.

Ma Barker (1873-1935) was an American criminal of the 1930s, best known for taking motherly care of her adult gangster children.

For, in addition to any 'genetic inheritance', he noted that such individuals frequently suffered from an interlude in which motherly care was unavailable.

She runs the town's only tavern, tending to the miners with motherly care but also packs a six-shooter.

One of the two American newspaperwomen in London, she looked after us all with a sort of motherly care.

She is a very feminine character, with somewhat motherly care for others.

She had taken over the management of the little garden, giving the plants Martian water and motherly care.