34 adjectives to describe likings
" It must have been a pleasant sight to see these old enemies converted into new and loving friends; and to behold their first meeting after being cheated into mutual liking by the merry artifice of the good-humoured prince.
He brought, too, his lady and little daughter, Beatrix, the latter a child of great beauty and many winning ways, to whom the old viscountess took not a little liking, and who was permitted after that to go often and visit the prisoner.
The heart of Lincoln, from the start, was in politics rather than the law, for which he had no especial liking.
If there was a sincere liking between George and the Major, it must be confessed that between the boy and his Uncle Joseph no great love existed.
Since his college days he had never mingled at all in general society until this winter, after their removal to town; and it was with delight that I watched his enjoyment of people, and their evident liking and admiration for him.
Hitherto there had been a cordial and sincere liking and a mutual esteem between the two young men; but now Adam stood as if petrified, and his amazement turned quickly to fierceness.
and I took an instant liking to both Hazel Gresham and her brother.
Neither one of them had ever shown the faintest liking for the dead girl, but now she noticed with surprise that they had both been crying.
The first is a gentleman in every sense of the word, the latter endurable, but the young Absalom is my aversion, I am subject to involuntary likings and dislikings, for which I can give no reason, and though the man may be in every way amiable, his presence is very distasteful to me.
Some think it treasonable, others lewd (don't tell Lady Fanny); but all agree there was something very odd and unaccountable in such sudden likings.
The judges were strict in proceeding against offendersand even stricter against the unfortunate toriesbut they had a humorous liking for Sukey, which was shared by the various grand juries.
Besides love and desire, I have for her an immense liking, the tenderness of affection, and am drawn to her with the irresistible force of the magnet to iron.
I will briefly restate what appear to be the conditions under which wild animals may become domesticated:1, they should be hardy; 2, they should have an inborn liking for man; 3, they should be comfort-loving; 4, they should be found useful to the savages; 5, they should breed freely; 6, they should be easy to tend.
Yet, curiously, behind all his disappointment, even contempt, there yet lurked in his soul an odd liking for the young man.
For when once it is heartily and loyally realized that not our partial likings, but the eternal harmony of the Whole, is the glory of God, we already anticipate the peace of absorption in the Infinite.
But Eugénie had this quixotic liking for the 'intellectuals' of a particular sort, for artists and poets, and people in difficulties generally.
There was Captain Robert Orme, Braddock's aide-de-camp, a fine manly fellow, for whom he soon formed a reciprocal liking, and the son of Sir Peter Halket, a lieutenant, and Morris, an American, another aide-de-camp, and young William Shirley, the son of the governor of Massachusetts, who had become Braddock's secretary.
SELFISH LIKING AND ATTACHMENT Liking is the weakest kind of inclination toward another.
I felt a sudden rush of sympathetic liking for this woman, whom I had looked upon as an enemy.
But, for the personal Russian, as I have said, I have always had a thorough liking, and all through the Montenegrin campaigns I held those who were there as warm friends.
At that moment he experienced a sharp pang, however, that was not very like forgetfulness, but which Valentine converted almost into self-scorn when he said "You know, Giles, she always did show the most undisguised liking for me from our first meeting; and then look how constant she has been, and what beautiful letters she writes, always trying, too, to improve me.
But there was a surface of personal vanity over his better qualities which led him to desire a tribute of universal liking."
So I meant it And use it as a penance for my pride; And yet, alas, through my own vulgar likings Or stubborn self-conceit, 'tis none to me.
A] Every long vocation; and foule shall come up fat And in brave liking.
He studied hard, despite a youthful liking for the jolly joys of Bacchus, and soon made for himself an enviable position upon the Dublin stage.