Mrs. Munroe proved to be a nice, motherly sort of a person, who, as it need hardly be said, was stone-deaf.

Wallie thought she seemed a motherly, neighborly sort, and at once wondered if that was what he was meant to think.

You will be under the care of a motherly good sort of woman, of whose kindness to you I can have no doubt.

Malina gave him a motherly sort of smile.

She snuggled over next to him as they reclined at the table and took him in her arms in a motherly sort of way.

Hayes wrote in a letter that Perry was, "an excellent motherly sort of woman, whose happiness consists in making others happy."

Then, there had been the motherly sort.

There, now,' I said in a motherly sort of way, 'see how much better you feel already?

"She worried a lot," Nicole Pedersen said, "in a motherly sort of way."

Marianne tucked the sheets to the tops of his thighs, patting his shoulder in a motherly sort of way.