The next house was full of Madonnas and maids worshipping the latest arrival in the station, a chubby boy of six months.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
This time she would keep him to it and not let him drift off to Madonnas.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
A vast, dim church, with long aisles and lofty pillars, which seemed to Madeleine's unpractised eye, fresh from the outer glare, to vanish in infinite mysterious gloom; a blaze of light, at the far-off high altar, with its priests, and incense, and gorgeous garments and tall candles; on every side shrines and tapers, and pictures, awful, agonised, compassionate Saviours, sad, tender Madonnas; a great silent multitude of kneeling people, and, above all, the organ peeling out, wave after wave of sound, which seemed to strike her, surround her, thrill her with a sense of-what?
"My Little Lady"
Eleanor Frances Poynter