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Example sentences for "fondly"

Lexicographically close words:
fondi; fondle; fondled; fondles; fondling; fondness; fondo; fonds; fondu; fondue
  1. When the rope was round me and I was ready to descend, she kissed me more fondly than she had ever done yet, and held on to me as though loth to part.

  2. She blushed a little and looked at me fondly and went on: "There was something cheering in the mere fact of going up instead of down.

  3. But thousands of men, women, and children, in spite of the fierce onslaught of the legions and the rapidly increasing flames, clung fondly to the inner court.

  4. Towards them their looks were ever fondly directed, and by sending their gifts to the Temple they continued to participate, at least by their contributions, in the sacrificial worship.

  5. You're the smartest horse in the world," said Jim, patting Ticktock fondly on the neck.

  6. She looked down fondly at her son's drawn, tired face, hating to awaken him.

  7. Her republican notions, which she had cherished so fondly in her early years, but from which she had somewhat swerved when seeking a patent of nobility for her husband, began now to revive in her bosom with new ardor.

  8. I gazed long upon the fair picture, fondly hoping that the loss her friends had sustained, by her death, was her eternal gain, by being thus early removed from a world of sin and sorrow to her home in Heaven.

  9. Memory also fondly turned to Miss Edmonds, my first teacher.

  10. Mrs. Ashton gazed fondly upon her daughter and the blooming children at her side, as she replied in the language of the Psalmist, "I have been young and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread.

  11. The conduct of Earnest had borne heavier upon them than their years; they had fondly loved the beautiful and friendless boy, and it almost broke their hearts to see him go thus astray.

  12. He hangs fondly about here too, and is, most days, at the grate of the convent.

  13. In us the zephyrs most rejoice: Our emerald beauty to caress, On silken wings they fondly press!

  14. You'll ask me why I thus rehearse All Epictetus in my verse, And if I fondly hope to please With dry reflections such as these, So trite, so hackneyed, and so stale?

  15. Thus is the same Method taken to bring us to Shame, which we fondly take to increase our Character.

  16. Blest as th'immortal Gods is he, The Youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.

  17. But these, added he with a disdainful Air, are such who would fondly live here, when their Merits neither matched the Lustre of the Place, nor their Riches its Expences.

  18. He scrupled not to eat Against his better knowledge; not deceiv's, But fondly overcome with female Charm.

  19. Snatch'd from our sight, we eagerly pursue, And fondly would recall her to our view.

  20. It is needless to add that they did not realize the immense riches they had so fondly anticipated.

  21. They had reached Mr. Parcher's gate; he halted and looked down fondly upon this child who seemed to have read his soul.

  22. But he felt very bitterly parting from the home where he had been born, and where he had at least passed a short but happy childhood, and sitting down on a hill he gazed once more fondly on his native place.

  23. That is a sensible little pig,' replied his mother, looking fondly at him.

  24. Napoleon fondly encircled her in his arms, and said, "Wurmser shall pay dearly for those tears which he causes thee to shed.

  25. It is fondly hoped that these passages do not express the sentiments of the British nation, as in a state of feeling such as this report indicates little hope could be entertained of an amicable adjustment of this question.

  26. It was the fruit of a wild spirit of adventure engendered by a vicious system of credits, under the evils of which the country is still laboring, and which it is fondly hoped will not soon recur.

  27. After indulging a moment in her mirth, Mildred looked at the young man fondly and said, "Go to, Gerald!

  28. His father gave him one look; and that look he fondly construed into a look of kindness.

  29. The heart of Juliet panted to give utterance to the warm acknowledgements with which it was fondly beating; but mingled fear and discretion forced her to silence.

  30. She made no acquaintances at all at the opera, as she had fondly hoped.

  31. Mrs. Fairchild made no acquaintances, as she fondly hoped, at the Opera.

  32. The parents had fondly hoped it would be a boy, but, alack!

  33. The curtains of night were fondly drooping upon the hill-tops, and the stars were shooting forth in glory one by one from Heaven's blue concave as the three hunters reached the Indian encampment.

  34. Beauty's spell flowed from her eyes, A radiant splendor wreathed her hair, And fondly sweet perfection lingered there, From which all human virtues gently flow.

  35. Canals and portages were the forerunners of the railroads by which every part of the country is now traversed, and the whole Republic is firmly united in bonds of mutual intercourse, which, it is fondly hoped will prove perpetual.

  36. Come hither," and he dragged the wondering Marmaduke to his model, or Eureka, as Adam had fondly named his contrivance.

  37. Occasionally, however, he would indulge himself in longer excursions among the wild and romantic scenery of that neighbourhood, to which he was fondly and almost enthusiastically attached.

  38. It's TIME you said something nice to me," purred Aggie; and her arm stole fondly around Jimmy's large neck.

  39. I'll bring baby to you," and after a solicitous caress he turned toward baby's crib and bent fondly over the little one.

  40. I'll tuck him in," and she bent fondly over the crib, but Alfred was not to be so easily pacified.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fondly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.