I say this between ourselves, for their fondness was beyond my expectation.
While his regard for Ralph constantly diminished, Ernest's fondness for Kate as constantly increased.
Mrs. Stuart Digby scarcely approved Kate's fondness for Miss Theodora and her friends.
Free enquiry is undoubtedly necessary to establish a rational belief; but a disputatious spirit, and fondness for controversy, give the mind a sceptical turn, with an aptness to call in question the most established truths.
Congreve, with the greatest talents for true comic humour, and the delineation of ludicrous characters, was so over-run with a fondness for brilliancy, as frequently to break in upon consistency.
The fondness for monkery is easily deduced from some of the best principles in the human heart.
Living thus a long time in great love and fondnessfor each other, they had but one inclination, lest both should be sufferers upon the least disagreement.
The doctor was a most accomplished gentleman, but he had a fondness for the grewsome in description equal to Edgar Allan Poe himself.
This fondness for posterity is a kind of madness which at Rome was once almost epidemical, and infected even the women and the children.
This child had conceived a fondness for me, from seeing me always at the window above the rooms his mother inhabited, and had of his own accord and gratuitously devoted himself to my service.
My mother, who noticed my distress without guessing its cause, drew from the casket which her fondness had already nearly emptied a large diamond, mounted as a ring.
Bending his head, he kissed the babe, with such fondness as parents less stern are wont to exhibit.
He was a most versatile man, and his fondness for discussion made him often highly diverting.
John Ballantyne told Lockhart a good story of Constable's fondness for bestowing nicknames.
Notwithstanding his delight in natural scenery and his real fondness for rural pursuits and his passion for sport, he had an equally strong attachment to the city and its old routine.
His fondness for adventure led him to devour every romance he came across without much discrimination.
And the few who do see this have an inbred fondness for the old romantic rags, and wear some of them in spite of their better judgment.
She stood silent before him, not less amazed at his lingering fondnessfor his wife than at his reproaches against herself.
Their warlike spirit had produced a readiness to take up arms on slight occasions, and had degenerated into a fondness for predatory expeditions.
They are as much Englishmen in Africa as in England, and, happily for them and for their country, there is no part of the national character that is more useful when transplanted than the fondness for active exercise.
It was perhaps the obverse side of his fondness for finery, that Rembrandt had a strong leaning towards the picturesqueness of rags.
With all this fondness for pretty things, Rembrandt never allowed his fancy to carry him beyond the limits of fitness in sacred art.
My father manifested a remarkable fondness for music at an early age.
Many a time hisfondness for the card-playing gang at the Club has meant double work for me.
Mr. Duncan Macgregor, the editor of the Leader, was a journalist of excellent parts; one who had held important positions in London and the provinces, but whose fondness for the whisky of his native land had made his life a changeful one.
I have spoken elsewhere of Spenser's fondness for dilatation as respects thoughts and images.
He had a fondness for particulars, and there are parts of his poems which remind us of local histories in the undue relative importance given to trivial matters.
Every one has noticed Milton's fondness of sonorous proper names, which have not only an acquired imaginative value by association, and so serve to awaken our poetic sensibilities, but have likewise a merely musical significance.
Yet so it is, for the poet, having become enamoured of the metre after reading Frere's clever satire, Whistlecraft, ever afterwards had a peculiar fondness for it.
Against your fame with fondness hate combines, The rival batters, and the lover mines.
I had no one to listen to me, it is true, but as myfondness for my garden increased, I used to sit down and sing to the flowers and shrubs, and fancy that they listened to me.
He had a fatherly, benignant way of showing his fondness for her, which seemed in itself to express a good man.
It was very pale; and bore the traces of deeper emotion than my letter alone, weakened by the doubts her fondness would have raised upon it, would have been likely to create.
I am glad to recollect that when the carrier's cart was at the gate, and my mother stood there kissing me, a grateful fondness for her and for the old place I had never turned my back upon before, made me cry.
Digressions about Cosmo de' Medici's position, and fondness for books, especially Tacitus.
I have known a dog of much the same disposition, but then he made one or two exceptions, and showed as much exaggerated fondnessfor them as made up for his general want of amiability.
I confessed my fondness for the fruit, and was soon the chagrined possessor of a pocketful of green ones, which this sunburned little daughter of Eve generously offered.
A fondness for judging one work by comparison with others, perhaps altogether of a different class, argues a vulgar taste.
There seems more passion in the one, and more dignity in the other; yet you feel that the sweet girlish lingering and busy movement of Juliet, and the calmer and more maidenly fondness of Miranda, might easily pass into each other.
But they are very fond of children and they mistake this fondness for knowledge of an expert kind; and worst of all, they offer it as such.
There is the case of a successful wheat raiser who discovered his son's fondness for thoroughbred cattle.
And so, from the same fondness for an even and uniform appearance, had been the practice of italicizing important words, or words which should be emphasized when read.
The Missel Thrush, so called from its fondness for the mistletoe, is larger than the common or song thrush, less melodious and not so common in England, but well known upon the continent of Europe.
Indeed, it struggled so hard to regain its seat, that one would imagine its fondness for its master had entirely overcome the natural predilection for its native element.
I have seen females carry their fondness for dress as far as this," continued he, "but I thought men and boys were above such vanity; I declare I am half ashamed of them.
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