Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mouth shows decision and determination. She's rather opinionative. There's a deal of individuality about that forehead; and I war-want that beneath that depth of dark-brown hair there are some terrific uprisings of combativeness. That nose, too, just the least bit on the ascendency, bespeaks a fond relish for logomachy; it starts up just a little as if it sniffed the air for scents of strife and combat." Thus spoke my reflective, phrenological self. But my unphrenological, my natural self, exclaimed, "By the six consumptive sons of my goodie, this girl has a pretty face! Wonderfully pretty...
Leave its fond but earthly lover...
...room at 10.30 P.M. His face was aglow with pleasure. He had just returned from an evening party. Tootsy had been there, and they had had a long interview. All at length was settled. He and Tootsy were going to elope! They had been growing more and more fond of each other as their acquaintance ripened, and had finally found they could not exist apart...
...this arrangement very cheerfully. I plied her with questions all the way, and I thus acquired many new ideas in relation to her husband's habits. I learned that he did not, as a rule, like Americans (thank Heaven! I am one of the exceptions); that he was very fond of his home and children, however, - which I still doubt, considering his heartless treatment of that child in the railway carriage; that he wore three clean shirts a week, but never changed his stockings oftener than once a fortnight; that he was a poet; that Queen Victoria had made...
...advantages of a college legislature, in which imaginary bills, committees on imaginary business, and all the intricate measures of a legislature, are imitated. Indeed, we do not believe that the members of the Union would long maintain their interest in such proceedings. The opportunity offered to persons fond of quibbling and obstructing would be too great to be passed over by them, and time and temper would be wasted by those who insist on the fine points of Cushing's "Manual." A glance at the working of even such well-ordered legislatures as the United States Congress or the British...