Again they gathered faggots and brush wood, of which the stepmother made up a large fire.
[She thinks that] even if the husband remarried, they'd have a mean stepmother and so the children would be better off with her in heaven.
The queen told the king how cruelly she had been treated by her stepmother, and on hearing this he became very angry, and had the witch and her daughter brought to justice.
She begged her stepmother to allow her to go.
Then the stepmother led them a long way into the forest.
In the fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the evil queen, Snow White's stepmother, exemplifies dependent self-esteem.
Meanwhile, the mice that Ella had be - friended raced to get the key from the stepmother. They carried the key for Ella up to the room and unlocked her.
Her fiance's stepmother famously accused her of acting like a brash celebrity bride.
In the years before "Deadly Game" was broadcast, Christopher Owens twice came to Zambia for the summer to visit his father and stepmother.
He never ADAPTS to the idea of having a stepmother.
My father was her absolute and sole heir, and I thanked the heavens with all my heart that I was spared such a stepmother.
To a child, a stepmother is the personification of the end of that dream. The stepmother stands in the way of their happiness.
In the meantime the wicked stepmother, who had caused these two young people such misery, supposed that the sister had been devoured by wild beasts, and that the fawn had been hunted to death.
I was afraid of what a stepmother would do to a girl, but perhaps a woman would have made a difference, he said, less guarded and more talkative now in his old age.
So my stepdaughter is now my stepmother.
But her mother died when she was just 3 and she suffered a lot at the hands of her stepmother.
Meanwhile, Imogen's evil stepmother tries her hand at a number of nefarious plans — but fortunately, she dies.
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