Her mother lifted a hand to halt such talk.

A mother lifts her child, that his little hands may touch it!

And now as she had done before, his mother lifted forward her hands and her kind arms.

In the back of the house, the little girl's mother picked her up and lifted her toward the bedroom window.

My mother never lifted her eyes from her book.

Now his mother lifted a heavy bell, ringing it for half a minute until the whole farm filled with sound.

At the sound, the mother lifted her head and clutched Eloise's hand.

My mother bent down and lifted the garage door.

His mother had lifted her head and smiled through swollen, glazed eyes.

I knew my mother couldn't be constantly cleaning up after Molly, or lifting her in and out of the house.