Will it find me grown thinner or fatter, Or fonder of wrong or of right.

There they have been eating and drinking their fill, and growing more weak, slavish, luxurious, fonder and fonder of the flesh-pots of Egypt; fattening literally for the slaughter, like beasts in a stall.

There they have been eating and drinking their fill, and growing more weak, slavish, luxurious, fonder and fonder of the flesh-pots of Egypt; fattening literally for the slaughter, like beasts in a stall.

"Couldwhy money will buy a title, you knowonly most people are fonder of their cash than of honor.

I think Doctor North was fonder of Charles Baxter than of anyone else, save his sister.

One thing was certain, that no mother could have been fonder or more devoted to a child than Jeanne was to her niece; and everybody said so,some more civilly, some maliciously.

Are you fonder of her society than ours, that you must run after her?" "I am not fonder of any one's society than of yours, Gerald.

Are you fonder of her society than ours, that you must run after her?" "I am not fonder of any one's society than of yours, Gerald.

No problem more difficult or of more delicate treatment than the 'criteria' of miracles; yet none on which young divines are fonder of displaying their gifts.

He felt really touched by her misfortunes, and was fonder of her than he had ever been before.

"At one time he were much fonder o' thee than thou deservedst.

I don't think if I'd a father I could be much fonder of him than I am of you.

Of course he felt fonder of her than ever.

Dick Stanmore had been fonder of hunting than any other pursuit in the world, ever since he went out for the first time on a Shetland pony, and came home with his nose bleeding, at five years old.

He is at pains to let the world know that he is still fonder of roving, than of loving; and that all the Caras and the Fannys, with whom he holds dalliance in these pages, have had each a long series of preceding lovers, as highly favoured as their present poetical paramour: that they meet without any purpose of constancy, and do not think it necessary to grace their connexion with any professions of esteem or permanent attachment.

They had several children, nice little boys and girls, who were far fonder of their Sea Castle, as they called it, than of a very pleasant house which they had in a great town at some distance off.

We're nae fonder o' shells than y'are yersel.

He could not have been fonder of her than he was, in a brotherly sense; but as for lover's love, from the first day he had seen her, a beautiful, dark-eyed child, until the last he had never felt the least semblance of it.

They are decidedly fonder of books than they were, and use the library more, but their taste is for the better kind of domestic fiction more than for anything else.

There is nothing the writers of this kind of poetry are fonder of, than descriptions of pastoral presents.

But the employers were no fonder of high wages than they are to-day.

I did think, once or twice, of coming over to see him; but the older a man gets, the fonder he is of his own firesideand I didn't come here, nor did I ever hear much of him; he certainly made no attempt to see me.

Their Phoebus should not act a fonder part For the fair boy, than he did for his heart; Nor blame for Hyacinthus' fate his own, That kept from him wish'd death, hadst thou been known.

No girl and lover were fonder than we of each other.

For about an hour she might have remained absent, and Mrs. Hamilton would not disturb her; and when she returned there was no trace of agitation, pale she was indeed, and her eye had lost its brightness, but that was too customary now to be deemed the effect of excited emotion, and no further notice was taken, save that perhaps the manner of her parents and Ellen towards her that night was even fonder than usual.