Ma [adjective]

"I supposed you 'adn't, as 'e ain't 'ere, with yer ma," replied the young person.

Dieu se servit de cette sienne bonne volont, non seulement pour ma sauvet, mais autant pour celle de tout l'esquipage.

The whole farm was just clear rocks, ma says, and that's why the walls are four five feet thick, some of 'em more.

Ma says all the gold'll ever be dug out o' Skyrie is them rocks he put into his stone walls.

I would, too, but ma she hadn't nothing nice cooked up, and she was sort of scared offerin' city folks country victuals.

Saves time, that way; though ma says no use having high-soundin' names without using 'em, so she never clips us herself.

But ma she tells him 't a man 't never does anything else might as well talk big words as little ones.

Ma she likes to hear letters read, too, and once we got one from my aunt who lives out west.

Ma says 'twas no wonder the creatur' 'd run away an' hide in the woods soon's churnin' days come round.

Ma she says there's consid'able difference in their ways, though; 'cause Seth he works, constant, an' pa he never does a stroke.