Tilda Jane, in a state of complete bewilderment totally unmixed with terror, for she had taken a liking to the kind face of her guide, trotted meekly after him into the shadow of a long V-shaped building.
Her travels had given her a liking for meeting new faces, and for enjoying some slight excitement.
A visible embarrassment hung about the Major; he seemed to have little liking for his task.
So she laid her plan, even as she had played her tricks in the days when she was an odd little girl, and Mr Cholderton, not liking her, had with some justice christened her the Imp.
But I can quite understand your not liking having been treated in that fashion.
He took a great liking to Zwingli, who soon stood in the foremost rank among his school-fellows, a master in debate and the possessor of an extraordinary talent for music.
This and not as yet a corrupt liking for mercenary service was the original occasion of the campaigns of the confederates in Italy.
This fact had enlisted to a special degree Madame Wachner's interest and liking for the two young widows.
He was peculiar, too, in never liking more than one friend at a time, and was very decided in his opinions of people, having a distinctly different reception for each one of the household, as well as for strangers.
Though full of bluster and pretense, he was as gentle as any bird in the room, never presumed on his size as the biggest, and, though liking to tease and worry, never really touching one.
Nothing pleased the thrasher more than watching other birds; he observed them closely, especially liking to stand on top of a cage and see the life below,--an agitated life it was apt to be when he was there.
These Manobos have littleliking for work, and are warlike and valiant, being usually on the hunt for slaves.
They are very cruel and bloodthirsty, and fond of murdering people without more cause than their liking for cutting off heads.
So you see I have good reason for always liking to come back here.
He glided naturally into the place of leader, feeling the responsibility and liking it.
She turned away, liking his words little and his manner less.
It was there that I acquired not only a good deal of rheumatism, but a great liking for our damp autumnal nature in the north of France.
As a matter of fact, I had a special liking for the ecclesiastical sciences.
Dupanloup, could not fairly settle down to the divinity of the schools, I at once took a liking for its bitter flavour; I became as fond of it as a monkey is of nuts.
Their work, whatever it may be, has always a personal object in view, and it would be hard to make them believe it natural that people should fight shoulder to shoulder without knowing and liking one another.
He had a great liking for the Scottish philosophers, and gave me Thomas Reid to study.
When I came to Paris I had no sooner given people a taste of what few qualities I possessed than they took a liking for them, and so--to my disadvantage it may be--I was tempted to go on.
The first feeling which stirred in me was one of pity, so to speak, coupled with the idea of assisting them in their becoming resignation, of liking them for their reserve, and making it easier for them.
I could not help liking him, for he was charming at times.
Even Agnes Anne had taken a sudden liking to "King George," and would not let him go as I proposed to her, now that all the other muskets were loaded and ready.
Or, A Hero in Spite of Himself Relates the experiences of a poor boy who falls in with a "camera fiend," and develops a liking for photography.
This last is the man; and I am the more persuaded of it because I think I won your good liking myself by giving you an entertainment--of sausages, when I had no money to buy them with.
It was at night time that young Denison, ex-supercargo of the wrecked brig Leonora first saw the place and took a huge liking to it.
You'd like the real England--you couldn't helpliking that!
Although a fuller acquaintance of Mrs Moffatt had increased neither liking nor respect, it had developed a sincere pity for a woman whose life was barren of purpose, of interest, apparently of love also.
I'll have some sort of a party in the Christmas vacation, perhaps, to make it up to the boys, not to mention liking the fun myself.
The look in his eyes when I saw him at your house, and your evident liking for each other.
You must try to cultivate a kindly liking for him, my dear.
She was introduced to his wife, and Hyacinth speedily conceived a liking for her.
Surely she had done her duty with truest endeavor; and Tom Byrne was a very fair average man, liking his daily glass of beer, but rarely going farther.
Indeed, Jack took a queer, half-shy liking for madame, and began to study French.
Polly is very original, and will charm you into liking her, before many days are over; even our fastidious Richard shows signs of relenting.
He may be right, but how we shall miss him,' returned Mildred, who had a thorough respect and liking for big, clumsy Hugh.
Roy will always be wanting to buy new books and new music, but I shall punish him by liking the old ones best,' she said, with a laugh.
I said something about not liking to leave my mother, and doing nothing without her consent.
And thus I account for St. Paul's liking for heathen writers, or what we now call the classics, which is very remarkable.
To this very day he is fond of telling of his liking for.
There was ever in him a love of the brutal, the hard, the rough, the angular; he had always a liking for what is glaring and intensive, loud and noisy.
I say unreasonably, because it was a liking for which I could not account even to myself, as he was neither especially prepossessing in appearance nor gifted with any too great amiability of character.
The Colonel has asked us to do this that we might say whether all is to our liking and convenience.
In fact, we began to contract a liking for a system which at the outset illustrates the advantages of good breeding, and which makes the most "of every creature's best.
He did not know,--but (he said in a low voice) he had a suspicion that this nephew of his was disposed to take a serious liking to Elsie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
