Sentence Examples:
Their passion is purely of an animal description, unaccompanied by the least sympathetic affections of love or endearment
Ward repeated the newly invented appellation, which seemed to approach satisfactorily close to the line of forbidden endearments.
Our parents, children, relations and neighbors are dear, but our fatherland embraces the whole round of these endearments.
The compress descended upon his forehead with the infinite gentleness of an endearment and the sudden solace of a reprieve.
The situation of our town, our country, our friends, and all the objects of endearment, continues the same as heretofore.
However, he stood by like a man, putting in soothing words of explanation and endearment whenever a lull gave opportunity.
When angry, abusive epithets seemed to fall as naturally from her tongue as expressions of endearment when she was pleased.
Then, as suddenly, his muscles relaxed, until Sally by repeated endearments baffled his indignation and softened his anger.
Absolute beauty does exist, but rarely; and we atone for imperfections by supplementing it with the endearments of outward accident.
All these disgusting terms of endearment he could not repeat to his brother-in-law, but felt it necessary to allude to them.
Mindful that he was not to ask indiscreet questions, Douglas could only smooth her hair and whisper comfortable endearments.
We had little time, however, to waste in endearments, and very little to devote to informing me as to the American plans.
When the party arrived they were all subjected to similar pillage; though, being so many, scarcely to the same endearments.
Laughing, disputing, shouting, they came surging toward the Half-Moon Tavern, dragging the watchman, on whom they lavished many endearments.
For a time their hearts were too full to do more than utter ejaculations of thankfulness, or lavish terms of endearment upon him.
That was her grateful rejoinder, sufficiently gratifying to him who received it, and leading him to further expressions of endearment.
The little fellow stooped and deliberately kissed Christmas, his eyes full of grateful tears, purring out fond terms of endearment.
Fray Juan Romero was accused by five women; he admitted using words of endearment, but innocently, as he claimed to be impotent.
The offspring nestled to the parent; that parent, feeling the endearment and hearing the appeal, gathered her closer still.
Demanded my wife with some little asperity, for she does not like her little endearments to be witnessed by other people.
Undermined by reciprocal endearments, we, too, might rage at the first word of criticism and swoon at the sound of laughter.
He used the term of endearment in the tone of calm, moderate reproof which a justly displeased, but self-controlled husband sometimes uses.
She pushed off the beseeching hand, turned from the offered endearments, and, with reddened, tear-stained face, left the room.
The two girls lunched together, dined, drove, and had tea together, and spoke of each other in exaggerated terms of endearment.
She took Mary into her lap, ruffling the curly little head with her kisses, and whispering endearments into the small ear.
Always impelled by her implacable ambition, she thought to force me to return to her by isolating me from all endearments.
Now and then an expression of decorous endearment would escape from each pen in the midst of philosophic discussions and political speculations.
Had he been a quick observer, he would have marked how, almost involuntarily, she recoiled from his embrace, and avoided his endearments.
He shrank from her innocent endearments as though he had no right to receive them, tendered in one coinage and received in another value.
Still, it was absolutely necessary that she should restrain herself and endure his insufferable endearments, and even force herself to speak.
At the proper moment, he met the object of his adoration back of the scenes and fired his volley of transposed endearments.
Other expressions of endearment of a similar kind passed as they sat down to dinner, composed chiefly of venison and boar's flesh.
The Indian mother is lavish with her caresses and endearments, as in other moods she may fly into fits of uncontrolled anger.
With as good grace as possible the young man submitted to the maternal endearments, disengaging her arms as soon as he decently could.
The situation is, to use a theatrical slang term, "worked up," and the young ladies pass from terms of endearment to mutual recriminations.
His dying eyes which he turned toward her still spoke ardent love, and he expired while endeavoring to utter words of endearment.
Six months ago she would have nestled close to him, certain of the tender endearments which had grown strangely infrequent of late.
To witness the embraces, caresses, and endearments of the great mysterious beast would have been a revelation such as a naturalist values beyond measure.
A thousand past endearments recurred to their memory, a thousand uncertainties springing from the bosom of futurity, presented themselves to their minds.
I forthwith resumed the language of endearment and trifling Elegies, those weapons of my own; and gentle words prevailed upon the obdurate door.
The exuberant use of terms of endearment and of abuse in Plautus may be also mentioned as an original and Roman characteristic of his genius.
Long may you continue to enjoy the endearments of fraternal attachments, and the heartfelt happiness of reflecting that you have faithfully done your duty.
Upon this Lady Pelham overwhelmed her with such caresses and endearments, as she intended should obliterate the remembrance of her late injurious behavior.
In his low-toned insistence he used a lover's language, terms of endearment, tender phrases, but her timorous reluctance roused a passion of rage in him.
She poured out her prodigal affections in kisses and caresses, and in a vocabulary of endearments whose profusion was always an astonishment to me.
No father could have resisted her pretty ways, her kisses, her endearments, her coaxing diminutives of speech, her childlike loveliness and simplicity.
Brown, who translated the concluding phrase as a term of endearment or at least friendliness, began to feel that life was well worth living.
Congratulations, endearments, loving regard for her welfare: she had not expected these things, and was in no wise grieved by their absence.
By way of thanks for the book, he scribbled a friendly letter, in which there was no endearment, definite or indefinite, to object to.
Basil bent over Theodora's hands, and covered them with kisses, muttering words of endearment which but increased the discord in her heart.
With what endearments use her, with what long kisses coax her for little mercies, with what fine confidence promise her little rewards!
She went to him and put her hands uncertainly about his head, then stroked his hair awkwardly: she was little used to endearments.
Words that are unused ashore except in anger or the coarsest abuse seem to be the gentle appellations of endearment between father and son afloat.
She only laid her face down on his breast and cried bitterly, while he soothed her with caresses and words of fatherly endearment.
He soothed her as he would have soothed her in the bygone days; holding her in his firm protection, whispering terms of sweet endearment.
Surnames are conferred only at the time of marriage; but various appellations of relationship and endearment are given besides that chosen at a child's birth.
She stroked the girl's hair, and held her hands, crying and laughing as if bereft of her senses, and murmuring words of endearment.
He was a delicate but exquisitely beautiful babe, and his frequent illnesses made deep demands on the endearments hitherto so freely lavished upon his brother.
In the first of these he introduces a child of his own under the following flourish of rhetoric, viz., as 'a pledge of conjugal endearment.'
It was a letter of gloriously good news, thought Guy, though he was a little disappointed not to have had the thrill of Pauline's endearment.
In the midst of these amorous embraces and tender endearments, the king paused awhile, to gaze upon, or rather to devour her with his eyes.
An ear-splitting yell went up, and the two ladies threw themselves towards their pet with a thousand tearful expressions of pity and endearment.
Thus did the poor mother alternately receive letters full of scoldings and of terms of endearment from her son whose genius she never understood.
The soldiers used to say that he was "tough as hickory;" then "Old Hickory" grew to be a term of endearment, which he bore ever afterward.
Equally in vain were all his dear spouse's cuffs, pinches, and other endearments; he lay like a log, face up, snoring away like a cavalry trumpeter.
On the other hand, familiarity is akin to tenderness, and thus old is a word of endearment; as, "the old homestead," the "old oaken bucket."
Grimes scuttled into the passage below without a word, and instantly Blind George supplemented his endearments with a burst of foul abuse, and listened again.
Stunned though she still was a flush crept into Jane's cheeks at the unexpected term of endearment, though she still kept her eyes closed.
Gaga was entreating, now rather frightened by Sally's lack of response to his feverish endearments, already inclined to suspicion and sidelong glances of doubt.
Endearments fell from his lips, but now she made him keep his distance, though so tactfully that he obviously did not realize his repulse.
He went to bed in an apparent ill- humor, turned sullenly from me, and if I offered at any endearments he gave me only peevish answers.
What Flossie called him that time didn't matter; it was her parsimony in the item of endearments that provoked him to excesses of the kind.
That young mind, startled from the present, it may be, by witnessing the endearments lavished upon prettier and smaller children, had traveled far.
Their pleadings and flattery infused new ideas into his mind, and ambition soon succeeded in dispelling love, and the remembrance of years of conjugal endearment.
Kathy was murmuring little indistinct terms of endearment into his ear every time she reached it en route from one side of his face to the other.
She yearned to them even in her fear of them, and when she thought of them sitting there her lips moved in unspoken, pitiful endearments.
Curiously enough, instead of being employed to express aversion to the object to which it is applied, the expletive is often used as a term of endearment.
I lay delirious with remembrance of her ... imagined myself with her as I lay there, and whispered terms of love and endearment into the dark.
Is it even possible that she is chaste, and that she has bestowed her loved "endearments" on me (her own sweet word) out of true regard?
She did not repulse him, and continuing his endearments and entreaties he at length drew from her an acknowledgment that she returned his love.
I heard a deep moan in the bottom of our boat, as of one coming out of an anesthetic, augmented by the delightful endearments of the little girl.
"Sow" may be a term of endearment, but no gentleman alludes to beards in the presence of a lady whose chin does not betray her sex.
Helena made a pretty grimace, and ordered Maurice back to his chair, which was at a safe distance, and did not admit of any embarrassing endearments.
Through all his deliriums he hunted butterflies and beetles, and died insensible to his wife's endearments, repeating the Latin conjugations of his inconceivable boyhood.
Endearments had not yet become usual between them, and feeling himself morally inferior he felt terrified at this stage to use them to such an angel.
Every true lover is original, yet most true lovers, including those who have no familiarity with poetical literature, fall instinctively on the same terms of endearment.
These superficial endearments, this amiable tone, this care to please which was there displayed, "relaxed the mind and restored the neglected faculties of our sensitiveness."
Have you forgotten the passionate endearments by which, while we lay together in the hospital, you seduced me into letting myself be locked into prison for you?
They use terms of meaningless endearment, fight among themselves for the possible prey, coax us to purchase a bottle of beer or whiskey or a mixed drink.
We lived happily together, content with each other's society, and seeking, in the endearments of a pure marriage, to blot out the memory of an unholy one.
Details of wealth and luxury, and manners that had escaped me, even at the time, were as facile to her as terms of endearment to a lover.
She seemed bent on extracting from Percy public and frequent demonstration of his lover-like side, and her appeals and endearments had furiously embarrassed him.
Little Sorrel, slow and patient, had perhaps been, in his own traversing, the one steed to hear no especial word of endearment nor much of promise.
Happy, happy time when first she used to call him by that quaint endearment; in what travail, in what blackness, it had come from her now!
He had wanted to cry, but those were words of proud endearment which he might never use except in the voiceless chambers of his empty heart.
Indeed, as they shouted their soothing endearments, her tears reached a point almost torrential, and she beat the coverlet with her small fat hands.
He spoke her name without thought of what he did, even as she had unknowingly used the word of endearment in her exclamation of surprise and concern.
That which she had received from Abelard, instead of fortifying her resolutions, served only to revive in her memory all their past endearments and misfortunes.
He swooped down to Billy's shoulder and rubbed the top of his glossy head against the boy's cheek, whispering low and lying terms of endearment.
Poppet is a title of very great antiquity, and has from time immemorial been used as a mark of endearment towards a newly-born child in all genteel families.