godmother

The godmother's greatest gift, I should say, though the fable lays little stress on it, was a capacity for unalloyed delight.

You think Im happy because the money my godmother left me enabled me to marry the man of my choice, a man who was well off.

His godmother helped him out of many difficulties for there was never such a wise old woman.

She had never disobeyed her nurse or godmother, and had therefore never been reproved.

My godmother has beaten me a good deal, and I ran away from home.

She was little changed; something sterner, something more robust, but it was my godmother, Mrs. Bretton.

But come in—come in—Waldo is only gone to fetch some brushwood, and our godmother, too, will be here soon.'

I rushed into the library full of my forebodings, but my godmother only said, "No grumbling, my dear!"

On this occasion Miss Guerin did me the honour to stand as godmother, and afterwards gave me a treat.

Hunting for a needle in a haystack seemed nothing in comparison to finding her godmother in such a crowd.