Lavished

Examples

• Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I might excite your passions; but then, such contempt as you have lavished on poor Lady Caroline Lamb would kill me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• On those she lavished, almost ironically, her affection and her companionship. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Upon her he had lavished, unknown to himself, all the reverence and respect and love that a normal English boy feels for his own mother. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The people idolized him; princes lavished uncounted treasures upon him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He never wasted a moment of time, or lavished a farthing of money in folly or dissipation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If anyone had known the care lavished on that dolly, I think it would have touched their hearts, even while they laughed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Checker: Paulette