Cherished

Examples

• It was one of mamma's cherished hopes that I should become united to a tall member of society. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My long-cherished judgment was confirmed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Thus tranquillized and cherished she at last slumbered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She still cherished a very tender affection for Bingley. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Nothing in her cherished affection in me, made me better, gentler; she only stirred my brain and whetted my acuteness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet you do love me; I feel and know that you do, and thence I draw my most cherished hopes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To all time they will be known as an artistic, noble, and religious people, who cherished their dead and would not allow that the good and beautiful and great should altogether pass away. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Laurie smiled, but he liked the spirit with which she took up a new purpose when a long-cherished one died, and spent no time lamenting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He saw that he was cherished in her grateful remembrance secretly, and that they resented him with the jail and the rest of its belongings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mrs. Peniston thought the country lonely and trees damp, and cherished a vague fear of meeting a bull. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Travel and experience mar the grandest pictures and rob us of the most cherished traditions of our boyhood. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This was the hidden law of her heart, which she concealed with childish reserve, and cherished the more because it was secret. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In Tom's hurried exchange, he had not forgotten to transfer his cherished Bible to his pocket. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I am a friend, I answered, a once cherished friend. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• She was haughty and fearless; she cherished a love of power, and a bitter contempt for him who had despoiled himself of a kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But, his long-cherished desire to know more about these matters, not only stopped him in his running away, but lured him back again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Conflicting passions, long-cherished love, and self-inflicted disappointment, made her regard death alone as sufficient refuge for her woe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How was he to tell her that, if she really cherished such a plan, the laws of the State were inexorably opposed to it? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He was already eager to return home to work upon his long cherished plans for a steamboat. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Ah, my cherished! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was for just such distinctions that the young man cherished his old New York even while he smiled at it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If thou wert yet alive, and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If he separated Monseigneur from others, it was only because he was more distinguished, more cherished, more generous, more renowned. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Because another dream, another cherished hope, had failed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But he found the hide had dried as stiff as a board, and as he knew naught of tanning, he was forced to abandon his cherished plan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You are always equally loved, and cherished in my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings always do unless cast out at once. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Edited by Clare