Sentence examples for my mammy from inspiring English sources

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And in Bombo he introduced "My Mammy".

In the shows she devised, she would don her Mammy costume, and sing "My Mammy," a song that Al Jolson had made famous.

He's candid enough to admit, "Today I fell in love with my mammy more than I thought I ever could".

Still, no show that can trot out a succession of hits like "Swanee," "You Made Me Love You," "Sonny Boy," "My Mammy," "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" and "California, Here I Come" can fail to entertain.

During the ceremony, he recounted what President Lyndon B. Johnson said in dedicating a building in Washington when Mr. Zuccotti was a special assistant at the Department of Housing and Urban Development: "My pappy would have enjoyed it and my mammy would have believed it".

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I think shorty said "my real mammy" <. "Mammy" pic.twitter.com/kuwgo2lsNm.

"My wee mammy was an abusive alcoholic," he says.

It starts like this and doesn't slow: "tonight the gars on the trees are swords in the hands of knights / the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind / is I am waving goodbye to the casket of my first mammy / well that black cadillac drove right up to your front door".

It was an old joke between us: never "our mother" or "my mother" or "Mammy" or "Mummy," but "your mother".

She continually invents ways "to keep the tension in my defiance of Mammy".

Mitchell's Mammy was not my own, nor could my brother's and my joined impulse to take care of our mother be relegated to Mammying, but such was the tremendous power of Mitchell's evocation of that figure that after I saw the film version of "Gone With The Wind" and read the book I was brought up short against my mother's ability to care, and my own and my brother's.

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