400 examples of doting in sentences

But these were not always times of delight to the doting parent.

Peace, doting fool.

Patricia was the apple of Uncle John's eye, and the one goddess enshrined in her doting father's heart.

But the question is whether he may delight himself as those Priapeian popes, which, in their decrepit age, lay commonly between two wenches every night, contactu formosarum, et contrectatione, num adhuc gaudeat; and as many doting sires do to their own shame, their children's undoing, and their families' confusion: he abhors it, tanquam ab agresti et furioso domino fugiendum, it must be avoided as a bedlam master, and not obeyed.

Of these there be many subdivisions, diverse degrees of madness and folly, some more than other, as shall be shown in the symptoms: and yet all miserably out, perplexed, doting, and beside themselves for religion's sake.

Moreover, Messer Giovanni Battista had sent them very satisfactory reports of his application to business, but he named one subject, which filled the hearts of the doting parents with apprehensionit was, of course, a story of romance.

Wasn't it too good of grandmother to have it made so smart for me?' 'Nothing can be too good for my Mary,' answered her husband, still in the doting stage, 'but it was very nice of her ladyshipand the room is charming.

She was looking at herself in the mirror; and Stangrave, in spite of his almost doting affection, flushed with anger, almost contempt, at her vanity.

Put not your trust in princesand yet put it rather in princes, oh, fond and doting parents, than in the blue-eyed flower of childhood for which year after year, with labours infinite, you would buy all the sunshine of the world.

Too true yfaith; Thou mightst as well put out the eie of day, Or cover sinne from heaven, or to erect A towre of sand on the uncertain surge, Or any thing that were more inficient, Then to remoove one doting thought of mine From her disdain.

His aunt overwhelmed him with garrulous expressions of doting affection; at night she would creep into his room to see if he was sound asleep, while all day long she wearied him with the tale of her petty grievances and dislikes.

But this charm was broken in the case of Mr. Tooke, whose mind was the reverse of effeminatehard, unbending, concrete, physical, half-savageand who saw language stripped of the clothing of habit or sentiment, or the disguises of doting pedantry, naked in its cradle, and in its primitive state.

what else could bring a doting couple, married only a few weeks, to that part of the town?

Miss Clay was back now and Tony was once more the humble understudy though with a heart full of happy knowledge of what it is like to be a real actress with a doting public at her feet.

She had been accustomed to have every wish gratified by her doting parent; she now found herself neglected and insulted by her husband.

With staff in hand and tottering knee, Upon the slippery brink he stood, And watched, with doting ecstasy, Each wreath of foam that rode the flood.

That exception is his quoting from one of Shakspeare's sonnets the rhyme doting and nothing.

Old Howlandcalled Bill until his early career as a pedlar and keeper of a Cheap Jack bazaar was forgotten and who, after the great fire, which wiped out so many pasts and purified and pedigreed Chicago's present aristocracy, called himself William G. Howland, merchant prince, had, in his ideal character for a wealth-chaser, one weaknessa doting fondness for his daughter.

The half globe 'tis in figure, And would it were bigger, Yet here's the whole universe floating; Here's titles and places, Rich lands, and fair faces, And all that is worthy our doting. 'Twas a world like to this The hot Grecian did miss, Of whom histories keep such a pother; To the bottom he sunk, And when he had drunk, Grew maudlin, and wept for another.

I see it every time when he, whether really in love or only showing himself off as a doting husband, fondles her hands, smoothes her hair or kisses her brow.

And going out (Carefully escorted by the butler, for there was A better overcoat than mine in the hall), I left her alone and unloved,with no one to care for her Save a couple of dozen servants And a doting father and mother.

For Jack to stay at home, to be near Teresita every day, to have nothing in the way of his love-makingnothing, since those doting two, her parents, would but smile at whatever she might choose to dothere was acid enough in that thought to eat away all the warmth, all the generosity José possessed.

Once in a while her father arose in an obdurate mood, but she had only to coax, or threaten tears,never had she been seen to shed one,or stamp her foot, to bring that doting parent to terms.

Four-and-twenty wailings o'er the wedded state, Yet twice as many every day 'tis not her fate; Pretending to the world 'tis mere choice that has led To singlenessyet choosing all the while to be wed, If any doting fool could be doting fool enough To bid for such a breaking down piece of stuff; For any such a winter, that has shed the flowers of spring, Whose autumn too is flown; nor left its fruit or any thing!

Four-and-twenty wailings o'er the wedded state, Yet twice as many every day 'tis not her fate; Pretending to the world 'tis mere choice that has led To singlenessyet choosing all the while to be wed, If any doting fool could be doting fool enough To bid for such a breaking down piece of stuff; For any such a winter, that has shed the flowers of spring, Whose autumn too is flown; nor left its fruit or any thing!

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