"Have you asked Mother to hold all calls until this morning?"

When he got out of bed the next morning, his father and mother were holding each other in the kitchen.

She'd been so pretty, this young mother holding her baby.

There were some 15 of them - women, old men, children, a mother holding a baby.

She took hold of his arm, as a mother holds her son's.

She drank a small amount while her mother held the cup.

It was the way her mother held herself when Kate came running out of school as a small child.

The hands held onto him gently, as a mother holds a child.

Yet my mother held it firmly and seemed not to feel that heat.

I sometimes went out to sit with him, even though Mother held it against me, saying he needed his solitude.