But my excellent mother, luck, Providence, or what you will - decreed otherwise.

Layla was an excellent mother, the girls were learning dancing and the boys all played musical instruments.

They are also known to become excellent surrogate mothers to different species.

For whatever else she might be, she was an excellent mother.

She's an incredible artist, an excellent mother and a very funny person.

Although does are excellent mothers, fawn mortality rate is 45 to 70%.

The hens make excellent mothers, with a strong tendency towards broodiness.

She was an excellent wife, an excellent mother, and surely he had loved her in his own fashion, but happiness?

Rosie was an excellent mother and she loved Tarquin dearly.

Whatever may have been the poor dragon's other faults, she was an excellent mother.