He sat down by the bed, folding his arms about her, calling her by every endearing name that his tenderness and fear could suggest, striving to soothe her into slumber.
To be called by such endearing epithets in two consecutive sentences, softened Clorinda greatly; this time something uncommon must be coming--Dolf certainly was in earnest.
Even to Cherry her voice, rich and deep as it was, never softened; and she rarely used an endearing term.
Anstice experienced an overwhelming desire to repeat her endearing term, but luckily refrained.
And do you imagine it can be less endearing in realizing it?
A rational voluptuary adheres with invariable respect to the temperate dictates of nature, and improves the gratifications of sense by social intercourse, endearing connections, and the soft coloring of taste and the imagination.
It is then the tenderest sensibilities are excited, the fondest remembrances renewed, and the heart becomes accessible to every endearing impression!
What makes the staple of our happiness,--endearing to us the life at which we should otherwise repine?
What endearing ties were beginning to bind him to her family!
He and Ann were fast friends now, and for the next year and a half he saw her daily in her mostendearing aspects of elder sister and daughter.
I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life; I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
You and I in our youth, my dear Government, played; When you called me the fondest, the truest of Banks, And enjoyed the endearing advances I made!
Youth's endearing charms are fled; Hoary locks deform my head; Bloomy graces, dalliance gay, All the flowers of life decay.
Socrates, who used to console himself in the society of Aspasia for those "less endearing ties" which he found at home with Xantippe.
She has called me by endearing terms, and there was nothing in the world she would not surrender to me in return for a newspaper notice a line long.
His mingling of oaths with endearingepithets was one of the quaintest things in the world.
And it is obvious that the endearing terms of relationship are more than metaphors or figures of speech.
Appeal might also be made to the sweet naturalism of St. Francis with his endearing name, "Our sister, the Moon.
I never thought it possible you could have loved me so tenderly as you do, and as you have made appear to me in the most endearing manner.
So, too, are all its habits, endearingand delightful.
By that mysterious bond our natures are brought into more endearing communion--now more than ever brethren, because of the blood that was shed for us all from His blessed side!
Her judgment and sense of propriety were advanced beyond her years, but her most endearing qualities were sweetness of temper and a heart formed for the exercise of gratitude and friendship.
Little Frances looked up to her, with the most endearing and perfect confidence.
But she clung to Trevylyan's proud form with a yet more endearing tenderness than was her wont, and hung yet more eagerly on his words; her hand sought his, and she often pressed it to her lips, and sighed as she did so.
He appeared in her eyes, as in Miss Woodley's, the same as ever; or perhaps more endearing than ever, as it was the first time she had beheld him with hope.
He embraced his bride with all the transport of the fondest, happiest bridegroom, and in raptures called her by the endearing name of "wife.
With such a regard for her, indeed, as his had long been, a regard founded on the mostendearing claims of innocence and helplessness, and completed by every recommendation of growing worth, what could be more natural than the change?
But Isabella became only more and more urgent, calling on her in the most affectionate manner, addressing her by the most endearing names.
Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Poor old Hannah wetted the parched lips and softly stroked the hot brow, murmuring endearing and pitying words, and thanking the Father of all that the mother was happy and did not know.
The act ofendearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection.
But then Sidney, who had the most endearing ways with him, seeing his brother so vexed, ran up and kissed him, and scolded himself for being naughty.
Such a splendid fellow, too, Primrose; skating like the wind, and such a dancer, and with so many endearing ways.
She laughed at them with her bright humor and made merry amusement over them, calling the child by endearing and fanciful appellations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endearing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
