She was, said people who live in this wide spot in on a narrow rural road, a pleasant if somewhat standoffish neighbor and an affectionate mother.

You were a good and affectionate mother to Brian, that is obvious in the way you speak about him.

It was a happiness for this affectionate mother that she did not hive to be a witness of my afflictions in the year 1754.

A glowing-eyed skull, a Halloween decoration, glares above the heads of an affectionate mother and her slyly smiling daughter.

Mrs. Ferrars is one of the most affectionate mothers in the world.

"I do," said Rosa, with the tone of an affectionate mother who grants a pleasure to her child.

Their affectionate mother shared all their grief; she remembered what she had herself endured on a similar occasion, five and twenty years ago.

Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (written in 1896) Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead, and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother.

"Don't sit there, dear," says his affectionate mother, stopping to snuff the candle on the first landing.