Word: dearly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think we may strike a good medium." Just what this means, he proceeds to show by a practical illustration. He has just seduced a married woman, and he tells his friend about her. "In the meantime, my friend," he goes on, "I am happy enough to have a dear infidel; but don't think her unfaithful, I could not love her if she was. There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound...
...college, it is true, the boy feels some dim forebodings of trouble ahead; but a decisive step to meet it is seldom taken. Human nature is weak, and the issue is generally avoided, while the anxious son consoles himself with the thought that years may bring wisdom to the dear parents...
...Henry Irving. Dear Sir.- The Harvard Shakspere Club, a society organized for the advancement of the study of elocution, of oratory, and of the drama, most cordially invites you to deliver a public lecture in Sanders Theatre, on a subject connected with your profession, and at such times as may suit your convenience. We make this request, believing that your direct and personal influence would be helpful to the club and to our student community. With grateful recognition of your efforts to elevate the standard of public taste and to ennoble the art of expression, I am very sincerely yours...
...Dear Sir.- Pray convey to the Harvard Shakspere Club my thanks for the honor which it has done me in asking me to deliver an address. It will be a pleasure and honor to me to appear at the University, and if Monday, 30th March, will be a convenient day, I shall hold myself ready to comply with the wishes of my Harvard friends. Believe me to be, my dear sir, sincerely yours...
With feelings of gratitude, and affectionate regard toward each and all, I am, dear...