Oral history, itinerant labor and the long-suffering mother: these are the stuff of much Southern women's fiction.

'Eat your noodles,' Ms Kwan said, sounding like a long-suffering mother.

The long-suffering mother of Donté who is convinced her son is innocent and prays constantly for a reprieve.

When Dennis's long-suffering mother discovered them together, they murdered her and buried her body in a nearby garden.

I'd read about his family: his brothers, a long-suffering mother, the domineering father.

And there's Frankie's long-suffering mother, Angela, who tries to hold together a family of five on 19 shillings a week.

His mother is both incompetent and neglectful, which makes her immediately stand out from the saintly and long-suffering mothers in similar books.

At least by waiting I had more hopeful news to send Arthur Baskerville's long-suffering mother.

The little boy Tod who had been there the previous night was there again, with his long-suffering mother.

She was surrounded as well by three sisters and a long-suffering mother.