"Dearness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beyond what you see: I know that it must seem to you as if something almost disconcerting had passed over life—as if such a hope must absorb the heart of a mother; but there is a thing you cannot know, and that is the infinite dearness in which this involves you. You would think perhaps that it could not be increased in Maud's case, but it is increased a hundredfold—it is a splendour, a worship, as of divine creative power. Don't be afraid! Don't look forward! ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... you are all sweetness and blue eyes and dearness and dimples," he punished her. Then the banter in his tones ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... whom even those that are not friends for ends love not a dearness," and who, "with a great deal of virtue, obtains of himself not to hate men," is a pathetic figure, but he is something more. He is a sermon on human weakness, not drawn as some Iago might have drawn it with exultant mockery, but with the painful unflinching veracity of ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... tolerable twenty years ago that she needed to have taken it for flattery, but she did, and literally gave me a box on the ear. She is very lively, all her senses perfect, her languages as imperfect as ever, her avarice greater. She entertained me at first with nothing but the dearness of provisions at Helvoet. With nothing but an Italian, a French, and a Prussian, all men-servants, and something she calls an old secretary, but whose age till he appears will be doubtful; she receives all the world who go to homage her as Queen-mother, and crams them into ...
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville
... poultry of every kind. A considerable addition to this was made by the private stocks of the officers, who were, however, under a necessity of circumscribing their original intentions on this head very much, from the excessive dearness of many of the articles. It will readily be believed, that few of the military found it convenient to purchase sheep, when hay to feed them costs ...
— A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay • Watkin Tench
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