Their fragility is more apparent than real, and if they are not exposed to cold or damp, they require less pampering than they usually receive.
Two or three days earlier than this, Holly Barclay had taken to his hammock bed in a fit of purely imaginary illness, exacting constant attendance and pampering in which he made a toiling slave of his pretty daughter.
Leonora admitted to Rafael that she could have lived to old age submissively at Keller's side, pampering his whims and selfish caprices.
One way of sinful wastefulness is, In pamperingthe belly in excess, curiosity, or costliness of meat or drink, of which I have spoken, chap.
Against this pampering of their carcasses dooth Hector Boetius in his description of the countrie verie sharpelie inueigh in the first chapter of that treatise.
He was stripped of his insignia and reduced to the rank of ordinary soldier," the man answered, "for pampering the Israelites.
His next move was to bring to the notice of the Pharaoh that the taskmaster Atsu was pampering the Israelites of Masaarah and defeating the ends of the government.
He returned several times, always pampering me with some attention or other.
Proof that our horses have become feeble from pampering may be found in Devonshire.
I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it.
Mildly put aside, without rudeness of repulse, the pampering hand of flattery, For courtesy and kindness have gone beneath its guise, and ill shouldst thou rebuke them.
Through this enter those to whom good fortune has served as the guiding smile of God, not pampering them with arrogance, nor hardening them with careless egotism, but shaping them to thankful meekness and generosity.
Thus, the dyspeptic over loading his stomach is plunged into the horrid hell of nightmare: the gourmand, pampering himself with a diet of spiced meats and Burgundy, shrieks from the twinging hell of gout.
The conception, too, is less native to the mind, has been more curiously sought out, and is incomparably more pampering to speculative luxury.
It ill becomes you to waste time in pampering your bodies when you are only feeding them to be devoured in the flame.
To his skill with the violin he had added the arts of the head waiter, and he and the cook ran a race for popularity, he pampering to one taste, and the cook, with his sauces, pampering to another.
With them he was forever temporising and making allowances; so that rules, never too severe, came by degrees to be sensibly relaxed, till leniency grew into culpable pampering and childish considerateness.
That the convicts were thus insolent and insubordinate was undoubtedly due to the petting and pampering they received.
After weeks of feeding and pampering and drilling and equipping and shining of brass buttons and showing off, when the order came for them to prepare to march off to the fighting front, the S.
You won't have forgotten all about the pamperingof that child what I told you of quite recent.
I don't call it 'aving a proper faith in Providence, pampering and fussing over a child to that extent.
The evil consequences of his long months of pampering disappeared.
Such an asylum would be as necessary as a protection against pampering parents as against those who are overbearing.
But to allow children to turn all the rooms into places to play in, and to demand constantly that their elders shall interest themselves in them, is one of the most dangerous species of pampering common to the present day.
The woman who would put aside pampering and stoically endure what money and friends could alleviate is rare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pampering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gratification; indulgence; indulgent; pleasing
