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Example sentences for "natural affection"

  • He is an old frippery-philosopher, that has so strange a natural affection to worm-eaten speculation that it is apparent he has a worm in his skull.

  • For Germany as Germany he had no natural affection; but the waters of Germany, however troubled they might be, he proposed to keep for his own fishing.

  • Pelham, in writing to Newcastle, affects to diminish the value of Pitt's intervention, as he wishes to attribute the renewal of harmony to 'natural affection.

  • Where families are properly regulated, added years strengthen the bonds of natural affection.

  • There was the conjugal union of the true worshippers of Jehovah, animated by the same hopes, governed by the same principles, whose hearts were united in the strong bonds of natural affection.

  • Athaliah was utterly selfish, devoid even of the instinct of natural affection.

  • It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree, independent of men; nay, it is vain to expect that strength of natural affection, which would make them good wives and good mothers.

  • Her deception lay unperceived under this fraud, the result of natural affection.

  • These forms of Agrarianism destroy the ethical idea and mission of home; for they are not only opposed to revelation and history, but violate the plainest maxims of natural affection.

  • Here it rises above the measure of natural affection, and temporal interest.

  • Natural affection prompts it, and it is well.

  • It will be the way of natural affection to keep him alive as long as possible, though with that miserably shattered body.

  • In an impassioned discourse the sophist Favorinus counsels mothers to suckle their own infants; and there are Roman epitaphs erected to mothers, which gratefully record this proof of natural affection as a thing then unusual.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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