Marion said, touching Eddie's hair in that motherly way she had.

In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.

She doesn't bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a certain little person in a motherly way which delights me.

The boys, age 10 to whenever their voices change, "are listened to in a motherly way."

But, in a kind of motherly way, she has to keep them in check and sometimes they need a firm hand.

'To think we were like that,' said Maud in a motherly way.

When she saw me, she smiled in her motherly way.

She was a smart, serious girl who, nevertheless, seemed inclined to watch out for the others in an almost motherly way.

Hypatia was looking at me in that motherly way she sometimes assumes.

The landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head.