He is dear to her, dearer than any of you imagine.
You have taken her under your protection, but surely your own niece, Iras, is dearer to you, so you will approve of my destroying the will if Dion insists upon his own way.
Her image is dearerto me than any living creature.
That he should cherish a remorseful sorrow for that lost wife, made him only the truer, nobler, and dearer in Belinda's sight.
To that God who looks down upon the earth there is nothing dearer than men bound to each other by reverence for the laws.
She knew she could not be true to both, while her heart reversed the sentiment she then would owe them: David's friendship was dearer than Philip's love, and she would keep it at all costs.
And just as the woman who dreams of many lovers finds one dream a little dearer than all the rest, so one of my houses has been dearer to me than all the others.
It is in this sense that the lost sheep is dearerto the Father than those that were not lost.
The interests and rights of American citizens are not dearer to us than those of the whole human race.
We are all brothers, yet I live by working in a bank, or mercantile house, or shop at making all goods dearerfor my brothers.
At these words the merchant, without seeming much abashed, told him he was sorry he had offended him; but that he thought freedom had been dearer to him than he found it was.
Yet even then the safety of my noble colonel was dearer to me than my own.
The hand that has thus far guided the pen, to dally with a subject all the dearerbecause so generally disregarded, will now gladly yield it to the control of a fresher fancy, a truer observation.
Every drop of martyr blood poured upon it but makes it dearer to the heart.
Or is thy shield, with blood and dust defiled, A dearer armful than thy tender child?
Never was there a dearer grandmother, she was so simple and so good.
Gracious, yes, they were rather dearer than if my dressmaker in Berlin had made them.
Why, the sun has not twice set Since he did swear me dearer than my crown, And now the crown's too much if my poor self Must burden it!
Add to thy love a thousand dearer loves And take their sum a thousand times a thousand, 'T will be the smallest part divisible Of my dear love for Rafael!
How he would catch me as I ran and say His little wild-girl with her flower crown Was dearer than his princess ermine-gowned.
The life bound up with mine Is dearer than the peace of any state, And looking deep into your country's heart I read some cruel marks of history That teach me fear for any precious thing Consigned unto its love.
I may be appalled when I see her, may suffer tortures at a sight so piteous; but she will be dearer to me in her ruined beauty than the handsomest woman in London.
When I left that world--at the call of religion--I renounced something far dearer to me than fortune.
There he spent half an hour in pleasant meditation before he started home, for the place which he knew to be so much dearer to his wife than to himself.
Apprehension is expressed at the difficulty of substituting a dearer for a cheaper food, the probability of fever closely succeeding famine, and the formidable danger of not having a sufficiency of sound seed for the ensuing crop.
Other nations, where famine was far less imminent, were in the markets, and had to a great extent made their purchases before our Government, causing food to be scarcer and dearer for us than it needed to be.
As for the little things required for the house, they were far dearer than now, considering especially the value of money.
Perhaps she has been wrapt up in her dear husband, or her dearer self.
I shall see Him no more Though to me he now is dearer Than he ever was, before I wrought him such wrong.
And is he not her child--the child of that lost, matchless being, whom I loved only second to yourself, since one dearer than either was removed from me?
The latter was a proof that he had been leading a regular and studious life; and the former declared that my mother and myself were dearer to him than any one else in existence, and that our approbation was what he most coveted.
Agatha was rather hurt that his aspect should change so cloudily, and that he should thus quench her little reminiscences of courtship-days, so dear to every happy wife, and gradually becoming dearer even to herself.
She cast her eyes down, trembling with a vague apprehension of ill; then gazed in the kind face that grew kinder and dearer every day.
Her high spirit was beginning to learn that there are dearer pleasures in life than even the pleasure of independence.
None but a wife who could have stolen into his heart with a closer, dearer claim, and she, alas!
If I held his life in my hand, he held in his what was dearer far than life to me.
So I turned for Little Sercq, and rowed for dear life and that which was dearer still, and the venomous prow behind followed like a hound on the scent.
I went down the zigzag at Port à la Jument in sliding leaps, tumbled into the boat from which Krok had just landed, and once more I was pulling for life and that which was dearer still.
Lingering and waiting near her-- The words that she speaks are dearer Than birds' songs in May.
Dearly love I to be near her-- Though thought of her is not dearer Than friendship may say.
Every day of that campaign Beverly grew dearer to me.
All the manhood in me rallied to her cause, and she was an hundredfold dearer to me now, in her helplessness.
Thou art dearer to me than ever, for the sake of my first and best friend!
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