He had long been the by-word of match-making mammas because of his devotion to a hopeless cause.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
She bent forward to embrace the children, with tears in her eyes, when Letitia said, in a sharp, unchildlike voice, "People can't have two mammas; and our mamma is buried in the New Cemetery.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
As for the conduct of the betrothed pair during their engagement, our American mammas are apt to be somewhat more lenient in their views of the liberty to be allowed than are the English.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood