No matter where she ran to, eventually she called her mother - usually collect in the middle of the night.

The guy's mother goes into the Delhi restaurant, says the codeword and collects.

My mother collected white porcelain statuettes of presidents and their wives.

Laughter rose from one of the benches where a mother had collected her young children and was preparing to launch them onto the ice.

And as a rule, surrogate mothers still don't collect much money, nor should they.

In an upstairs room, mothers were collecting boxes of food.

"My mother wouldn't even collect the morning paper without putting makeup on."

"Do you remember whether you called your mother collect or put it on your own phone bill."

His mother collected welfare checks for years while running with fast men, ignoring her son and giving little thought to a job.

Her mother collected them, but this one was particularly exquisite.