How To Use Dear In A Sentence
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My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger.
A table for one | 世論 What Japan Thinks
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At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. '
Shining Ferry
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12: 19: "Not defending [Douay: 'revenging'] yourselves, my dearly beloved.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Oh dear ... our gal SUZANNE has her fetus-fetishist panties in the bunchiest of bunches.
I’ll take “Divorced From Reality” for $500, Alex.
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I would dearly like / love to know what he was thinking.
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How have my dear old Scotland not won a game?
Times, Sunday Times
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A dear little announcerette rattled off expert intros to various gymnastic jingles, one of which featured dogs barking in the background.
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"Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."
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But protecting the right of a people to run no-accounts out of office and to have a real voice in decisions that affect them is dear to US and Taiwanese hearts.
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Here comes today with special pride in all the achievements you have made.May your dearest wishes through all the years in store come true,and make you happier than you have ever been before.
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I said, " Oh, dear godmother, tell me, pray do tell me, did mama die on my birthday?
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`Kate, dear Kate, it's sweet of you to want to be my comforter.
SEA MUSIC
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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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While it is true that the Hogwarts tales are supposed to appeal to young readers, personnel at bookstalls say that there is no dearth of adult readers who cannot wait to see what Rowling has in store in the new book.
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In person, he projects a vulnerability that's nothing short of endearing.
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Dear ladies (and sirs), that last is reason alone to try to remember to WASH - not dryclean - your (washable) fabrics when you get them home, instead of waiting until just before you sew them to preshrink them.
Resolved. - A Dress A Day
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Wish you a whole world of happiness now that your birthday is here.May your memories today be warm ones.May your dreams today be dear.may your joy last through the year.
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But now I feel there was something rather endearing about my uncultured clumsiness.
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Mercury promises success when you write about a topic you hold dear.
The Sun
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There was dark hair spilling over her shoulder, a soft voice whispering endearments in her ear.
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Grandmother displayed all the warmth, enthusiasm, and flamboyance that she had loved so dearly in her brother Theodore.
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Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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Set inside the Void, this story follows the life of Edeard, a young 'shaper' whose life is changed forever by a cataclysmic event and he finds his way to the great city of Makkatheren where he enters the service of the constables.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Patience, peace and a good heart endear you to family, friends and loved ones.
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Although he had no actual plans, he knew that his road would be made dear and so he waited, getting by on talent and saving his genius for when his name would be called.
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It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard
Waverley
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I didn't think that I could ever trust happiness. Then I met you.Happy Valenti ne's Day, Dear.
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We've got to remind ourselves that two years ago this guy was a (sidearmer)," Maddux says.
Reinvented Feldman thriving as Rangers starter
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These five days have cost Arsenal dear.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bottom line is we would dearly love some government assistance there.
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Hamlet
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His stories of past friends were always endearing but told with a dignified but abiding relish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Michael Ontkean performs the funniest "striptease" bit in the history of film, and the endearingly sociopathic “Hansen Brothers” have to be seen to be believed.
Hullabaloo
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. Oscar Wilde
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Dear teacher, thank you for illuminating my voyage of life with your own light of life. My grateful sentiments come from the bottom of my heart.
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For auld lang syne, my dear... `If it were me,' he said as we crossed the park, `I'd be crossing continents; I'd leave no stone unturned.
RESCUING ROSE
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Dear Congress, Remember when Ren was in that game of chicken on a tractor and the only reason he won was because his shoelace was wrapped around the pedal?
Kristin Wilson Keppler: More Stuff That Happens in the World When We're Watching Nickelodeon
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Dear Daddy, I may find a prince someday, but you will always be my king.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
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My - dear - Count!" says I, astonished, and everyone stopped talking; the Queen looked pop-eyed, and even Albert left off prosing to the noble corpse beside him.
Fiancée
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Endearingly fey one minute, Norton will then go straight for the jugular of some poor, taste-challenged Pom in the audience, or phone an American eccentric on his dog-phone.
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Her haughty, combative approach did not endear her to the sons of empire.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Follow the counsell of your deare nourice Radegonde, whoe loueth you better than her owne soule.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Old dears about to get bevvied on whisky or port and lemon used to cry: ‘Through the teeth and round the gums / Watch out tumtum, here it comes.’
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If there have been improvements in the NHS, they have been dearly bought.
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Today is your birthday,my darling.I'd like to express my heartfelt thanks for what you have done.Thank you for your cares and understanding and the at support you offer me when I need it.A whole of love to my dear husband.
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Anything that the dying republicans can do at this point, including thrashing around and digging up newt from the grave, while their Dear Leader’s days in office disappear after every sundown, they will do.
House Republicans Continue Vacation Protest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel!
Sketches — Volume 05
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have.
A Simple Story
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Of course, Toby, my dear fellow, of course.
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It did not surprise her when Fanny said, "Now, Sophie dear, it seems only right and just that you should inherit the hat shop when I retire, being the eldest as you are.
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You introduce them to the new godparents as you would introduce any other dear friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clues aren't obvious—very few will be decked in deerstalker hats or carrying a pipe, and they most pointedly do not say, "Elementary, my dear Watson," a phrase their hero never once uttered in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works.
The Case of the Sherlock Convention
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The Baiga dearly loves the common country liquor made from the mahua flower, and this is consumed as largely as funds will permit of at weddings, funerals and other social gatherings, and also if obtainable at other times.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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Flemings, and plans of bitter enmity against them; and the sight of his murdered father, with that look and tone of the old Dane, fired his spirit, and breaking from his trance of silent awe and grief, he exclaimed, "I see it, and dearly shall the traitor Fleming abye it!
The Little Duke
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The endearment set off another wave of warmth in her, another petal unfolding deep inside her.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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Dear Joanna, your American friends will not know what 'hoovering' is.
Auntie joanna writes
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“Hold on there, sug,” he croaked, pronouncing the endearment like the first part of the word sugar.
Water Song
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My dear brethren and sisters, I must still tell you that I have been four times in danger of my life when running in my kaiak, for so often have I been overset when I was quite alone.
The Moravians in Labrador
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His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, "the kind chief.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Wrath and I are old friends, and I've come to accept his tendency toward tmesis as an endearing personality quirk.
Archive 2006-02-01
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“Dear boy! it came from the honestness of his heart!”
The Small House at Allington
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Oh dear - this just won't do.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh dear, that was a black day in Baldersdale.
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In his recent annual address to the clergy the Bish. lamented bitterly that the American "jingo" was provoking dear patient Christian England to put on her war-paint.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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Book 1, 31, line 13, 'Dis carus ipsis' — 'dear to heaven'.
Letter 178
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At thirty-eight seconds to go Tito delivered a pin-point left uppercut which had Ricardo hanging on for dear life.
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The puppets are slightly skew whiff, their movements endearingly jerky, but this only serves to add to the quirky appeal of the film.
Times, Sunday Times
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Show your manners!" called Emil; and the boys pranced up to the ladies, old and young; with polite invitations to "tread the mazy," as dear Dick
Little Men
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It is your special responsibility, dear monks, to be living examples of this interior and profound relationship with him, implementing without compromise the program that your founder summarized in the "nihil amori Christi praeponere" [put nothing before the love of Christ.] (Rule 4.21).
More from Montecassino
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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‘Don't struggle, my dear girl,’ came his ingratiating voice.
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A brace of ptarmigan flutter away for dear life.
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Some of our friends must be burning for a mouthful, poor dears; the wounded flesh is drouthy.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Yours truly, John H. Morrison Whitfield, Ontario Monday, July 18, 1938 Dear Evelyn, Forgive a dilatory correspondent.
52449_CLARA
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Dear, lovable Brian, as unaggressive a human as ever existed, had been murdered because of something to do with Sara.
Scarlet Nights
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Dear gott but did this thread ever get hijacked by a nonissue.
McCain Strives For Bill Clinton Moment
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Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
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Exemption from taxes will do little or nothing, the lower orders [end of page #249] are nearly all exempt, but that general dearness, that is the consequence of a general weight of taxes, is severely felt by them, and from that they cannot be exempted.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged
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It would seem that Sammy's dear little darling sister has struck again.
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He thought it without morbidity for he had loved his brother dearly.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Steve stood at the bow of the ship, unprotected from the storm and hanging on for dear life as he pointed excitedly.
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You transfer into a very solid, warm presence on Corvi, my dear.
The ship who sang
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She had hurt his feelings by saying she wished she didn't have to live with him, and she had insulted his dear, dear, _dear_ picture!
The Iron Woman
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SARAH PALIN, (R) ALASKA: When my amniocentesis results came back showing what they called abnormalities, oh, dear God, I knew I had instantly an understanding for that fleeting moment why someone would believe it could seem possible to change those circumstances, just make it all go away and get some normalcy back in life.
CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2009
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Lord Glenvarloch as they left him, “You shall dearly abye this insult — we will meet again.”
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Would you appreciate a bit of assistance there, dearie?
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REFERENCES: la pelouse (f) = grass; le gazon (m) = grass or lawn; Manou = endearment for the name Emmanuelle; for-mee-dah-bluh = formidable = great; gratter for it (Franglais) = scrape (save) or work for it
Words in a French Life
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The answer lies with us, dear reader, the end users of this tsunamic information flow.
Tom Alderman: The Internet Is Absolute Democracy -- Be Very Afraid!
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Even our first parents ate themselves out of paradise; and Job's children junketed and feasted together often, but the reckoning cost them dear at last.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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Is it just me or does Iain Gray look like a boil-in-the-bag version of our own dear Rhodri Morgan?
MacMorgan
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The fourth person Eddie meets is the young Marguerite whom he loves dearly.
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So as often as I sincerely wish to throw a blanket over my teenage daughter before she goes out, I know I can't do this (although I can cluck, like a churchwoman, "Aren't you going to be cold in that, dear?").
Danielle Crittenden: Islamic Like Me: Is Western Culture More Sexually Oppressive Than The Burka?
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And only a mouthpiece from a similar background with a similar dearth of experience under fire would consider using those words.
Quote of the day
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It would espouse a cause dear to his heart - the need to get more nations up to speed.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've seen it happen more than once to some very dear, sweet people, and it's really heartbreaking to watch.
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Shee's any good man's better second selfe, the very mirror of true constant modesty, the carefull huswife of frugalitie, and dearest obiect of man's heart's felicitie.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Incredibly, this shocking misdemeanour endeared him to thousands of hormonally charged schoolgirls, and made him a pin-up in offices around the country.
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Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say.
A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
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She's probably trying to get her dear dad to hush up.
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There really is an endearing quality to this thousand-pound-plus hunk of marine mammal as I watch it grab floating heads of lettuce to nosh just below the surface.
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And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
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I was nervous, certainly; afraid I might lose something dear to me.
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May blessings lead into a wonderful year for you and all whom you hold dear.
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The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife.
Queechy, Volume II
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Maybe you should try typing long posts before, rather than after, having a couple of refreshing bevvies - my dear, the Grauniad would love you to do their typesetting!
EXCLUSIVE: Brown snubs Germany and Russia and possibly more?
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My heart goes out to particular moments and people, both recent and distant, and holds on for dear life, impervious to happiness or unhappiness.
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And as we know very well that a lady who is skilled in dancing or singing never can perfect herself without a deal of study in private, and that the song or the minuet which is performed with so much graceful ease in the assembly-room has not been acquired without vast labour and perseverance in private; so it is with the dear creatures who are skilled in coquetting.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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And it was in France, dear reader, that I learned to swallow the bitter pill best known as endive-not a life lesson, perhaps, in the strict sense of the term, but a promising turn for a palate. picky than pleasant at the dinner table.
Orangette
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A hypocoristic (or hypocorism) is a lesser form of the given name used in more intimate situations, as a term of endearment, a pet name.
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My dear sir – you are the most extraordinary – may I again inquire your reasons?
John Halifax, Gentleman
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I admittedly was pretty uneducated about this disease but it has piqued my interest in the last few months as these clients are close relatives of someone very dear to me.
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The brutally direct communications engendered by youthful, student audiences tend to endear them to dancers.
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One more coruscation, my dear Watson -- yet another brain-wave!
Chennai
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He was young enough to be enthused by my enthusiasm, professional enough to find it endearing.
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
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Mark became a dear friend .
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Their musical directors are Thomas and Brenda Gunn, distant relations of our dear Pastor.
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Most of these dear people are even ignorant as to who 'bogie' is, or why we should be so proud of beating him.
The Rosary
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“Dear child, how late it is!” exclaimed Lady Knollys suddenly, looking at the Louis Quatorze clock, that crowned the mantel-piece.
Uncle Silas
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It cost them dearly in the end.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are the ones who will pay dearly if it all goes wrong.
The Sun
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The other reason a lot of folks are up in arms is because a handful of the tracks have the kind of dirty names you can't say on the radio ( "Titty F*ck", "Just F*cking"), that you'd expect out of someone like DJ Assault or 2 Live Crew, not the sweet-natured Dear.
Music (For Robots): October 2005 Archives
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The updates on meeting schedules posted to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors account, with its strictly business mien, is tragically unendearing by comparison.
Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
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My dear departed and very heterosexual friend Norman Mailer (six marriages -- all to females) once called marriage an excrementitious union.
Dwayne Raymond: Marriage, Money and LDS Possibilities
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Carn Mor Dearg lies on the eastern arm of the horseshoe ridge that includes Ben Nevis and is a favourite with scramblers who climb ‘The Ben’.
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What may cost the taxpayer dearly is appointing a new group of politicians to eminent posts with poorly-defined functions.
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Searching online (thank you, dear neighbor, for not using password protection), I read about poor souls who'd paid $200, $400, and even $1,500 to have this exact problem fixed.
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But ignoring it or treating it with condescendence, motivated by the achievements in Libya, would cost Obama dearly, especially if he fails to take decisive action in Syria or provides Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon -- as well as the regime in Damascus -- with a way out.
Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament?
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My dear, you grossly overrate the credulity of your audience.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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MY DEAR FRIEND: I apply to you now, as to the greatest virtuoso of this, or perhaps any other age; one whose superior judgment and distinguishing eye hindered the King of Poland from buying a bad picture at Venice, and whose decisions in the realms of 'virtu' are final, and without appeal.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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Hush, my dear boy!" she said, in her soothing way, as if she were stroking me down the back like she stroked her tabby Tom -- one of the mousiest and most petted of cats.
She and I, Volume 1
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May its blessings lead into a wonderful year for you and all whom you hold dear.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barry more would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Barry more, American actor, J.
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His abrasive personality failed to endear him to players or management in his time at the Toon.
The Sun
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Dear Mason, Things are so crazy here-sorry I didn't have time to write back and say congrats on fabulous heron photos.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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My Dearest: See what an effect your "gallous young hound" episode has had on me.
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
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If there be neither snow nor rain, then will be dear all sorts of grain.
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En una guerra un barco necesita bombardear una base de comunicaciones del enemigo que se encuentra a 3000 metros.
Wolfram Blog : Surprise! Mathematica 7.0 Released Today!
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In the McGuire, Katz and Hotchkiss households the same exchange, give or take an endearment, took place.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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With a chest, desk and bookcase, it should keep the dear little one happy.
Times, Sunday Times
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And while this sort of depiction makes for, as my agent gently put it, "a great character," it does not exactly endear one to said mother when the book is published.
Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
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I was dating a man at the time, and got kind of cheesed off when my dearest friend/ex-wife who, not incidentally, dated a bisexual woman for several years got all snarky with me about the “heterosexual privilege” thing.
Biphobia in the GLBT community from a bi man’s point of view
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His comments always held a reproachful tone, even when he tried to be dear.
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Yet there appears to be a dearth of qualified people who are both willing and able to step forward and provide better leadership.
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He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded cleuch, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered.
The Monastery
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Dear me!" says Ferdinand, as he dropped his white hot pincers sizzlingly into a jar of water, "and I had hoped you would not be bothering me for a good ten years!
Figures of Earth
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Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan.
Mary Anerley
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barry more would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Barry more, American actor, J.
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May its blessings lead into a wonderful year for you and all whom you hold dear.
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It's quite endearing, but at the same time slightly worrying.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't think that I could ever trust happiness. Then I met you.Happy Valenti ne's Day, Dear.
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LAST time we encountered the eccentric but endearing Texan he had chronic back pain.
The Sun
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It was a great pleasure working with you my dear, We really appreciate your help you have rendered us, We will be missing you so much, All the very best!
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So he says to the first, ‘How much do you love me, my dear?’
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If Ruff's comment hasn't caught Gordon Campbell's attention, one suspects the Premier has lent his ear to the thoughts expressed today by his dearest supporters - the corporate community.
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In a fit of phrensical heedlessness, I sent a letter to my beloved Miss Howe, without recollecting her private address; and it has fallen into her angry mother’s hands: and so that dear friend perhaps has anew incurred displeasure on my account.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Among the 'normal' Muslims interviewed were a woman in niqab (fewer than 1% of Muslim women in America wear the full face veil and accompanying robes), and Muslims in the Muslim 'hood', cities, like Dearborn, MI, and Patterson, NJ.
Keith Ellison: Should we fear Islam?
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The normally exultant cheers of a vast Scottish Grand National crowd were muted because the splendour of a truly great race was bought at a very dear price.
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Dear heaven, Laura thought, trotting after him with her string bag and her blanket.
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Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854
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Dear Polack-Honky: I think what you think is mariachi is actually conjunto norteño, which is the Mexican music form that most approximates traditional polka--mostly because that's what it is.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Is that Polka or 'Conjunto Norteño'?
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Andrew Garfield announces himself as a young actor to watch, Lily Cole is drop-dead gorgeous, and even Verne Troyer aka “Mini-Me” is endearing.
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Review – Collider.com
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I asked myself where my mother could be, whether she'd also been able to withstand the poison, her lungs adapt to this solitary inclemency and the dearth of oxygen.
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For you see dear readers, last night I got "sloshed".
Archive 2005-12-01
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Though, as Mark Twain noted, many Britons "dearly love a lord," most of them have no idea how to address one in the vocative case or on an envelope.
Peerless Titles
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And had not his son, his own dearest creation, been just such a spinner of spells, a weaver of stories to catch human hearts?
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Her kindness of heart endeared her to everyone.
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Of course to get a proper valuation would cost money which the applicants can dearly afford.
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Our unique role also becomes dear when leaders surface to carry out a particular ministry and when resources become available.
Christianity Today
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The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any.
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This narrow lane was dear to her.
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It got me thinking about other brands dear to my heart that improve my physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
The Sun
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Oh dear, I've broken the lamp.
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They lost everything that was dear to them.
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The weakness in their defense has already cost them dearly this season.
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If you will do me a service, dear friend, send me, if possible by return of post, some metronomical indications for the introduction and several other important pieces, the duet between Lohengrin and Elsa in the third act amongst others.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
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Mr. O'Day, a relatively unknown sidearmer who made it to Anaheim unexpectedly out of spring training in 2008, follows Mr. Rodriguez to the National League and into a wide-open Mets bullpen.
In Search of the Next Josh Hamilton
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He would phone dear Harold in the middle of the night to make sure the rushes had arrived.
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“Dearest wife and daughter,” returned the Emperor, “I have hitherto spared you the burden of a painful secret, which I have locked in my own bosom, at whatever expense of solitary sorrow and unimparted anxiety.
Count Robert of Paris
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-- What think you, my dear, of compromising with your friends, by rejecting both men, and encouraging my parader?
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
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He also knows how to keep them in order without getting annoyed - a virtue some parents would dearly love.
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Sport is not just about buying cheap and selling dear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dear Mrs Cox, Re: Household Insurance. We note from our files that we have not yet received your renewal instructions.
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As a lawyer and a husband he is not perfect - far from it - but his desire to be good is what makes him endearing.
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You gotta git off, 'cos mah boys at the Ferry'll telegraph ahead when they fin' out whutevah's happened to Joe, an 'the Kuklos'll be a-waitin' at Baltimo '... an' Ah cain't let 'em take yuh, Ah jes 'cain't,' cos, oh, mah dearie, if anythin 'wuz to happen to yuh, Ah b'lieve Ah'd die!
THE NUMBERS
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- While I was still under the almost first impression of grief for the loss of my dear and honoured father I received a letter from Windsor Castle, written by Madame Beckersdorff, at the command of her majesty, to desire I would take the necessary measures for being presented to son altesse royale Madame
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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DYNAMITE: The term applies to TNT's bittersweet Men of a Certain Age, continuing its terrific second season, but not so much to the instantly tiresome new legal dramedy Franklin & Bash, which implodes in the belief that aggressive quirkiness, smarmy frat-boy sexual innuendo and a "suits are douches" philosophy will endear its Peter Pan protagonists to a wide audience.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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The Latin word medulla (marrow) is used in much the same way as mihi hæres in medullis (Cicero); (very dear, my best friend, etc.)
Languagehat.com: MARVIN.
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Worse, Filler constantly breaks into cutesy song snippets, a habit that grows less endearing every time it happens.
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Mrs Jones was a dear old body.
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It was disappointing to read two recent articles: ‘Summer events threatened by dearth of helpers’ and ‘Guild disbands as membership falls’.
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Dear Maggie, I feel I owe you an apology for abandoning your esteemed Victorian values.
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It's rumoured the term originated in Vancouver sometime last decade, but it wasn't exactly meant to be endearing.
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Dear Peter, I have been thinking about you so much during the past few days.
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Poor dear good old Gwynne, tender, sensitive, shrinking, with the face of a seraph and the heart of a maid.
Kempton-Wace Letters
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In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
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Besides, being an Irish boy, he dearly loved a "shindy," and Winnipeg's wide streets provided ample room in which to dodge a too powerful enemy.
Irish Ned The Winnipeg Newsy