mother country

True, the colonies lacked the extremes of wealth and poverty to be seen in the mother country.

All but one of the shortlisted six (Coetzee being the exception) hailed from the mother country.

In that case the mother country would be only too glad to withdraw her troops, of which indeed she had none too many.

“Back to the land” is a question there of as much if not greater moment than in the Mother Country.

Thus, the breach between the American colonies and the mother country became wider as time passed.

For it is to be observed that the whole question was between the mother country and the colony.

It was not only in the mother country that frightful acts of bigotry and lust for wealth were enacted.