Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
I constantly looked for motherly protection.
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.