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Mother's daughter

noun

A daughter who is favored by and similar to her mother.

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"Mother's daughter" Quotes from Famous Books

... homeless darling! doth none want thee, my dove?—not even thine own mother's daughter?—Bertram, good husband, thou wilt not let [hinder] me?—Sweet, come then with us, and be our daughter—to whom beside thee God hath given none. Meseemeth as though He now saith, 'Take this child and nurse it for Me.' ...

— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt

... impatience? He didn't want the girl to marry an oyster. He remembered the glory and glamour of his own love affair, of that golden year of marriage. His Nelly ought to be loved as her mother had been before her, as her mother's daughter deserved to be. He wasn't going to yield her to a fellow who would only give her half his tepid heart, who would leave her to spend her evenings alone while he spouted in Radical clubs or in that ...

— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

... researches Miss Crawley had the full benefit. Mrs. Rawdon Crawley was the daughter of an opera-girl. She had danced herself. She had been a model to the painters. She was brought up as became her mother's daughter. She drank gin with her father, &c. &c. It was a lost woman who was married to a lost man; and the moral to be inferred from Mrs. Bute's tale was, that the knavery of the pair was irremediable, and ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

Words linked to "Mother's daughter" : girl, daughter