Affectionately

Examples

• She sent you the message, by me, that she thanked you affectionately and would never forget you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I now affectionately advise, I now most earnestly entreat, you two to part as you came here. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Robert Jordan saw him rub his leg along the horse's flank affectionately. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The sick man drew a hand of his old fellow-prisoner towards him, and pressing it affectionately between both his own, retained it in his grasp. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Then he put his hand affectionately on Birkin's shoulder, saying: 'Don't you bother about me, Rupert. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But Lady Jane took both the hands of her sister-in-law and kissed her affectionately. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And she should hear me say, Amy: affectionately, quite dutifully and affectionately: how well she looked, considering her time of life. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Then he put his hand again affectionately on Birkin's shoulder. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am a poor man, said he, as he patted it affectionately, and thrust it into the depths of his inner pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The latter he was intimate with, and affectionately embraced. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mrs. Crawley seized her hand, pressed it to her heart, and with a sudden impulse, flinging her arms round Briggs, kissed her affectionately. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He took hold of it affectionately. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Don't be long,' said the spinster affectionately, as Mr. Jingle stuck the pinched-up hat on his head. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And that I thanked him affectionately, and would never forget him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He received us very affectionately, and we sat down. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But as the old man--and before he was thirty years old he was affectionately so called by his laboratory associates--he is a normal, fun-loving, typical American. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I wrote to him most affectionately in reply to his, but I think I was glad, upon the whole, that he could not come to London just then. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I'll be as quiet as a mouse, Gerty urged affectionately. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I think the man who could often quarrel with Fanny, said Edmund affectionately, must be beyond the reach of any sermons. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And so, to finish the poor child at once, Mrs. Rawdon ran and greeted affectionately her dearest Amelia, and began forthwith to patronise her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The credulous little creature again embraced Mrs Lammle most affectionately, and then held out her hand to Mr Lammle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You will take cold in the evening air,' urged the spinster aunt affectionately. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Having cast his sharp eye all about it, Mr. Bucket returns to his chair next his friend Mr. George and pats Mr. George affectionately on the shoulder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She affectionately reminds Mr. Franklin Blake that she is a Christian, and that it is, therefore, quite impossible for him to offend her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She took them all most affectionately by the hand, and expressed great delight in seeing them again. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Yours affectionately. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She underlined the letter a great deal, and she signed herself affectionately his friend, Amelia Osborne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Luckily there is no distinction of dress nowadays to tell tales, but--but--but Yours affectionately. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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