I wonder if they ever tire one another!In my early life I had a passionate fondness for the poetry of Burns.

CHAPTER XI P.P.C. 'It always seems to me so unlike you,' Aylmer said (he had arrived punctually at twenty minutes to four)'your extreme fondness for newspapers.

Why then does my foolish fondness seek to establish for her the same merit in my heart, as if she avowed it? Pr'ythee, dear Belford, once more, leave us to our fate; and do not thou interpose with thy nonsense, to weaken a spirit already too squeamish, and strengthen a conscience that has declared itself of her party.

His look of half-parental, half-admiring fondness was touching to see.

Though the poet has never yet touched upon politics, yet the careful reader will find that the hero of the sketch must have been a young Democrat, since he is made to appear very nimble, and has a fondness, partial to himself, of getting into rather thorny places.

Most people have a peculiar fondness for crabs.

He made more than one visit to Oxbridge and had an almost paternal fondness for Pen, whom he bragged about at his clubs, and introduced with pleasure into his conversation.

To him he mentioned his wish for actual service, but hinted that the maternal fondness of Lady Margaret was averse to his seeking it.

The young of all animalsman among the restappear to have such an instinctive fondness for amusement, that so long as they are unrestrained, they seldom need any urging on this point.

There was no trait in Jean Marie Poquelin, said the old gossips, for which he was so well known among his few friends as his apparent fondness for his "little brother."

He very early discovered an unusual fondness for literature by an eager perusal of English books; and, having passed happily through the scholastick rudiments, was put, in 1530, by his patron Wingfield, to St. John's college in Cambridge.

She was writing of her husband, and, though her expressions were restrained by taste and education, they partook of her unutterable fondness and devotion.

HUMOUR, distinct from wit, and defined as "a warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all that exists," as "the sport of sensibility and, as it were, the playful, teasing fondness of a mother for a child" ...

He felt for her the most genuine fondness of which he was capable, besides trust and a certain admiration.

He trod close by his tall superior with visible fondness; enjoying this spectacle of a man the like of whom he had not seen on the frontier.

You had not yet the fatal change deplor'd The tender lover for th' imperious lord, Nor felt the pains that jealous fondness brings, Nor wept that coldness from possession springs, Above your sex distinguish'd in your fate, You trustedyet experienc'd no deceit.

" With all the grateful fondness of earlier years did Mrs. Myrvin look up in her mother's face, as she thus spoke, and press her hand in hers.

The foreigners say that through your Majesty's devoted fondness for the princess, the affairs of your empire are falling into ruin.

The best Way to get clear of such a light Fondness for Applause, is to take all possible Care to throw off the Love of it upon Occasions that are not in themselves laudable; but, as it appears, we hope for no Praise from them.

Learning the French by heart, they believed the Y a-t-il to be one word, and with boyish fondness for nick-names saddled the youngest with this.

The Poodle is no longer regarded as a sporting dog, but at one period he was trained to retrieve waterfowl, and he still on occasion displays an eager fondness for the water.

They talk much of the union of the will and understanding, but all is mere fantasy and fondness.

The king, who till the moment of his resolving to poison me and strangle thee had been a tolerably good kind of man, seemed now to have drowned all his virtues in his immoderate fondness for this capricious fair one.

" Instead of this, however, we returned to the inn, where we saw a worthy count endeavouring to clean a huge meerschaum pipe that he handled with evident fondness, and finding our carriage readyit being then nearly eleven o'clockwe continued our journey.

So the tender fondness of a middle-aged man for an infant is elevated above the commonplace by assuming the tone of playful gallantry.