"Affectionately" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... independence, the growth of years of lonely struggle with the world, possesses and inspires me. I could not for an hour endure patronage or dependence, come they from where or how they might. It is the law of my life," said Ishmael firmly, but affectionately. ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... said Potts, affectionately, not knowing the blasphemy of invoking the blessing of God on one who was ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... hand and glanced at her affectionately, nodding nervously. "Of course, dear girl, I can't ask you to be quite frank with me. Poor child, you are trembling and your hands are icy. Poor Arthur! But you must not judge him by this altogether; think how much he misses in life. What a cruel shock you've ...
— The Troll Garden and Selected Stories • Willa Cather
... look here, old chap," said the youth in the red tie, trying affectionately to capture the doctor by the lapels of his coat. "Look here. I'm simply sewn up, ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... of the kind schemer. How fondly he dwelt on them, how affectionately he wrote of them to his boy! How he read books of travels and looked over the maps of Europe! and said, "Rome, sir, glorious Rome; it won't be very long, major, before my boy and I see the Colosseum, and kiss the Pope's toe. We shall go up the Rhine to Switzerland, ...
— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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