Affection
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592 examples of Affection in a sentence
If your
affection
for me, which I know to be extreme, chooses to allow me a small pension, I shall go and settle myself where you please, in Switzerland, for instance, with my husband.
My
affection
for yourself, you little wretch, restrained me from warning her father ...''What will he do?'Julien asked him boldly.
MIRABEAUHe was completely absorbed; he made only a half-hearted response to the keen
affection
that she showed for him.
It would have required a simple, artless, almost timid
affection
to appeal to him, whereas on the contrary, Mathilde's proud spirit must always entertain the idea of a public, of what _people would say_.
And when Mathilde left him, finally, with the lawyer, he felt far more
affection
for the lawyer than for her.
'I take back my word,' cried Julien, springing to his feet; 'I shall not appeal from the sentence of death, if by poison, knife, pistol, charcoal or any other means whatsoever, you seek to put an end to, or to endanger your life.'Madame de Renal's expression altered suddenly; the warmest
affection
gave place to a profound abstraction.
I have caught you at the same game, Father, play-acting like any missionary ...''Your tender age,' the Jansenist went or gravely, 'the interesting appearance with which Providence has blessed you, the motive itself of your crime, which remains inexplicable, the heroic measures of which Mademoiselle de La Mole is unsparing on your behalf, everything, in short, including the astonishing
affection
that your victim shows for you, all these have combined to make you the hero of the young women of Besancon.
She spoke to the businessman with
affection
but, at the same time, with condescension.
And we feel an
affection
for that man which is not at all lessened by the circumstances of its NOT clearing up, but continuing to rain steadily all day.
They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, although there was no longer much warm
affection
given in return.
The corps - we presume, from their known
affection
to that useful animal - had received the quaint appellation of "Cowboys."
His eldest daughter was already admitted into the society of women; but Frances, the younger, required a year or two more of the usual cultivation, to appear with proper éclat; at least so thought Miss Jeanette Peyton; and as this lady, a younger sister of their deceased mother, had left her paternal home, in the colony of Virginia, with the devotedness and
affection
peculiar to her sex, to superintend the welfare of her orphan nieces, Mr. Wharton felt that her opinions were entitled to respect.
The family of Mr. Wharton continued to enjoy, for the remainder of the day, a happiness to which they had long been strangers; and one that sprang, in its younger members, from the delights of the most confident affection, and the exchange of the most disinterested endearments.
This very material point in his business so satisfactorily completed, the peddler rose from his seat on the floor of the piazza, and approached to where Captain Wharton stood, supporting his sisters on either arm, as they listened with the lively interest of
affection
to his conversation.
"No!" said the captain, laconically, and looking at his lovely burdens with great
affection.
The office of consoling those we love is one of the dearest prerogatives of affection; and Major Dunwoodie, although but little encouraged by his own momentary suggestion of relief, could not undeceive the lovely girl, who leaned on his shoulder, as he wiped the traces of her feeling from her face, with a trembling, but reviving confidence in the safety of her brother, and the protection of her lover.
Imprinting one long kiss of
affection
on her unresisting lips, the soldier tore himself from his mistress, and hastened to the scene of strife.
The smile of
affection
that used to lighten his dark features on meeting his mistress, was supplanted by the lowering look of care; his whole soul seemed to be absorbed in one engrossing emotion, and he proceeded at once to his object.
In passing Frances, she received another of those smiling looks of
affection
she so much prized, and for a season the impression made by his appearance after the battle was forgotten.
It is wonderful how well you escaped!""I have been a tumbler from my youth, and I am past minding a few falls from a horse; but, Sitgreaves," he added with affection, and pointing to a scar on his body, "do you remember this bit of work?""Perfectly well, Jack; it was bravely obtained, and neatly extracted; but don't you think I had better apply an oil to these bruises?""Certainly," said Lawton, with unexpected condescension.
Long has the storm poured its weight on my nation, And long have her braves stood the shock; Long has her chieftain ennobled his station, A bulwark on liberty's rock; Unlicensed ambition relaxes its toil, Yet blighted
affection
represses my smile.
The good nature and the personal
affection
of Betty for the offender, restrained her, for some time, from answering his innuendoes, until Lawton, having ventured to admit a piece of the black meat into his mouth, inquired, with the affectation of a spoiled child,-"What kind of animal might this have been when living, Mrs. Flanagan?"
The washerwoman had for a long time looked on the veteran with the eyes of affection; and she had determined within herself to remove certain delicate objections which had long embarrassed her peculiar situation, as respected the corps, by making the sergeant the successor of her late husband.
With a dread of her lover's integrity had been awakened the never-failing concomitant of the purest affection, a distrust of her own merits.
In obedience to this opinion, the fourth finger of the left hand is thought to contain a virtue that belongs to no other branch of that digitated member; and it is ordinarily encircled, during the solemnization of wedlock, with a cincture or ring, as if to chain that
affection
to the marriage state, which is best secured by the graces of the female character."
Ride to the Four Corners, and present this note to Sergeant Hollister, or to Mrs. Elizabeth Flanagan, either of whom will furnish the necessary pledge of connubial affection; and return forthwith."
Frances silently complied, and Isabella turned her eyes in sisterly
affection
upon George.
"Think how devoted has been your love to our aged father; how disinterested, how tender, your
affection
to me!""Yes," said Isabella, a smile of mild pleasure beaming on her countenance, "that, at least, is a reflection which may be taken to the grave."
"I am no casuist, sir," returned the youth; "but I feel that my father is entitled to my affection, and I would encounter greater risks to prove it to him in his old age."
"Is it then such a crime to possess natural affection?" said Frances wildly.
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