She was not offended, if she had heard the term of endearment I used, for she gave me another nice little bow and smile from the window.
His deepest endearment is a communication of mischief, and then only you have him fast.
Footnote 87: This silly term of endearment appears to be derived from chick or my chicken, Shakspeare uses it in Macbeth, Act iii.
All his offers of endearment are but like terms of course, that carry their own answers along with them, and therefore pass for nothing between those that understand them, and deceive those only that believe in them.
Would she press those jewels to her lips, and murmur broken words of endearment for him?
It touched the door in shutting it, with quite as much endearment as it had touched her.
Few words of endearment ever passed between the two, yet each felt something like real affection for the other, and Chloe's deep voice was always gentle when she spoke to Iris.
Even in the midst of her tribulation Cherry strove heroically for her own gracious tone, and the familiar term of endearment sounded strangely pathetic to-day.
Ana drew his head against her bosom and murmured hypocritical words of endearment in his ear, while she kept his glass full.
This was the term of endearment with which she had invariably addressed her husband.
They lavished caresses and terms of endearment upon the glittering, polished, death-dealing brass.
No poet makes such use of terms of endearment and affectionate diminutives in writing both to and of his friends, and of himself in his relation to them.
The exuberant use of terms of endearment and of abuse in Plautus may be also mentioned as an original and Roman characteristic of his genius.
The affections which had delighted her youth were torn from the bleeding soul; no sacred connection remained to bless her maturity; no endearment awaited her decline.
The next instant two arms were thrown about his neck, a slender figure was kneeling beside him, and a fair young face was pressed close to his, while words of endearment were murmured in his ear.
Terms ofendearment she had, characteristically, never used, she threw her soul into the sounding of his name.
It was a term ofendearment derived, undoubtedly, from a theatrical source, in which he sometimes indulged.
They replied to none of the tokens of endearment or questions of their parents; not once did they utter a word, they only wept and wept.
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term ofendearment for a child.
When they were alone he called him "my boy," an endearment he never gave another.
The Federal term of endearment for Hamilton, "The Little Lion," clanged suddenly in his mind, a warning bell.
In their prayers to her, they are prodigal of the most expressive epithets of endearment and admiration.
And with a mixture of threats and words of endearment the sturdy dean of the fish-women went muttering back to her place, to sell the rest of her stock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endearment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bait; blandishment; caress; charm; decoy; endearment; hook; lure; snare; trap
