He was thinking with a quiet, gentle thought of Kathleen, and of his long-dead mother and father.

She always wore gloves, one of her remaining tributes to her long-dead mother.

"Call me Khan," he said, claiming at last the exalted title his long-dead mother had prophetically bestowed upon him.

It was the rarest hair color among moon elves, a color Arilyn associated with her long-dead mother.

It was not only her voice that told him that she was indeed his long-dead mother.

In my daytime waking life, I have been the only son of a long-dead mother and father whose only marriage was to each other.

An imagined meeting between Jake's smart, college-age daughter and her long-dead mother is both sweet and feisty.

At one point, somebody out there reregistered my long-dead mother.

Suddenly he heard the voice of his long-dead mother.

My dear daughter,it began, and she bit back a cry to realize that the writer, as she had not dared to hope, was her own long-dead mother.