I began to understand, for the first time, why my mother still adored him after more than twenty years of marriage.

My mother adored the ballet, but that's what other people did.

His mother adored him; there were photographs all over the house.

"I laugh at how much his mother adores him," Weber says.

Many mothers who brought their babies to him adored him.

His mother adored him, while silently worrying about the cost.

A family note says she was always a devoted mother and her children 'adored' her.

His father was an advertising executive; his mother adored him.

Not that he'd have to do much work, his mother adored him.

But he was a great old fellow, my mother and father adored him.