The tender solicitude of friendship, the sweet prattle of childhood, the hilarity of mirth, the consolations of religion, and the schemes of ambition, were endured and accepted with the same passionless apathy.
Rewarding the solicitude of the tender Margery with a kiss, he desired her to repair to him in the evening, bringing forty ells of white silk, and a supper with plenty of good beef and ale.
Let it also lessen the abhorrence of my deed, when I assure thee, that it was solicitude for your well-being which led me in part to it.
Mrs. Yocomb soon after came in, and looked with solicitude at my almost untasted dinner.
I went downstairs and looked through the old house to see that all was right, with as much solicitude as if it were indeed my own home.
Can it be presumption to hope this, when she showed so muchsolicitude at my illness?
Mrs. Yocomb had been moved into an armchair, and every moment comprehension of the truth grew clearer, and her motherly solicitude was intensified.
Her face was clouded and anxious, and she looked with eager solicitude toward the still unconscious Zillah, whose hands Reuben was chafing.
Was it not the habit of the Czars, all of them, during the whole revolutionary epoch, to indulge in the pious cant of proclaiming that they were motived only by their solicitude for the interests and well-being of the peasants?
I do not understand this exclusive solicitude for Germany's interests.
But I dare not risk a speculation with no better view of your affairs than at present I can command; my caution is not from disregard, but from solicitude for your welfare.
He has no fondness for newspaper notoriety, no solicitude lest he shall be overlooked by the public.
And while my solicitude for the workmen was not so great as his and Mr. Durrett's, I was concerned as to what would happen to us if those twin gods, the Tariff and Prosperity, should take their departure from the land.
When at length I arrived at home, late for supper, my mother's solicitude only served to deepen my pain.
It was with the most earnest solicitude that Butler and his companion watched the course of events, and became acquainted with the character of the ruffians into whose hands they had fallen.
Pardon me, my girl, but my feelings are full with subjects of serious import, and I would have you believe that what I have now to say springs from an earnest solicitude for your welfare.
Obeying the instinct of her present fears, our heroine cowered beside her weeping friend, in the midst of the group of clamorous servants, and awaited in mute solicitude the coming events.
Here they delayed a few minutes, as if expecting an attack; until finding that the object of their solicitude had safely crossed the field and plunged into the distant woods, they rode away at a rapid pace in the same direction.
This solicitude did not, however, arrest his seeming mirth, as he joined in the rude jests of the company and added some sallies of his own.
Never did he array himself with more solicitude for effect.
And only as Pierre turned up a distant lane, did his amazement and his solicitude find utterance.
Cibber says: "I would not have even your merited Fame in Poetry, if it were to be attended with half the fretful Solicitude you seem to have lain under to maintain it.
An inquiry which indicates the utmost solicitude and distress.
The wonderful image which so troubled the king of Babylon in his dream, and occasioned him so much solicitude when he awoke, denoted four of the great empires of the world.
Do you feel no solicitude for their souls—no desire to pluck them as brands from the burning?
There is something so pure, so earnest in her solicitude for the old man, that it seems more of heaven than earth.
Her kindness touched his heart; her solicitude for his welfare gained his affections, and a recognition of that love she so long and silently cherished for him, is the natural result.
She recognizes in his solicitude for her the sincerity of his heart.
Gently he bears her to the cot, lays her upon it, and with the solicitude of one whose heart she has touched with a recital of her troubles, smooths her pillow and watches over her until her emotions come subdued.
Tom lay stretched on a blanket in one corner of the cell, his faithful old friend, the sailor, watching over him with the solicitude of a brother.
Care and toil had of late driven her from his thoughts, and he felt it remorsefully, as he gazed upon her noble face, softened by the solicitude of untiring and anxious love.
If the 'Buono Stato' depends on your government, what I have asked, your solicitude for Rome will not permit you to refuse.
You know, I make a pretence not to interfere; but like all old maids I feel a mighty solicitude about the event of love stories.
A solicitude like that shown for him by the Mexican senora, could scarce spring from simple friendship?
Who was the object of this solicitudeso hypothetically expressed?
Sir William knows the Queen's pride in her beloved Troops, as well as her unceasing solicitude for their welfare and glory, and she trusts he will on all occasions express these feelings from herself personally.
Extend this solicitude for a single individual to the whole human race.
But her maternal love and solicitude themselves were becoming a source of added distress and apprehension.
Not all the distractions of fame and work, of passionate pleasure or passionate sorrow, ever relaxed her active solicitude for the present and future welfare of her two young children.
He took this occasion to repeat, that, notwithstanding his solicitude to establish a National Government, he never would agree to abolish the State Governments or render them absolutely insignificant.
The ravages of a dreadful fever among the poor, increased my solicitudeto see my devout little Deist a Christian.
On those two, among many, I looked with especial solicitude as to their future course; and I have had to rejoice, in different ways, over them both.
The company manifested a solicitude for the issue of the pending controversy--the family Bible was brought and laid on the table by the side of doctor Franklin.
They had seen Mademoiselle de La Bastie when they were staying at the Vilquins, and their solicitude for the impoverished head of their house now became active.
Is it Goltz of Strasburg, noting with wonder that mother love and yearning solicitude could be shown even by a dying animal, whose breasts he had cut off, and whose spinal cord he had severed?
I was delighted to possess superior power; I was prone to manifest that superiority, and was satisfied if this were done, without much solicitude concerning consequences.
He said that his views were too momentous to be hastily taken up, or hastily dismissed; the station, my attainment of which depended wholly on myself, was high above vulgar heads, and was to be gained by years of solicitude and labour.
