Affection Sentence Examples

Lifting her chin for his affection, she forced his lips down to hers.

He really did feel affection for her, if he was jealous.

Right now, any affection would be welcome; and Alex was obviously an affectionate person.

But first I need company and the affection of a sweet little friend.

As a stranger to human affection, he'd never quite gotten used to her hugs.

She met his gaze, wondering if any part of him was capable of affection or if she'd wither like a dried-out flower.

She was jealous as a lover of the child's affection, and the struggle between the mother and grandmother was one of the bitterest of Aurore's childish troubles.

He pulled her into his arms and kissed her tenderly, but his affection lacked sincerity.

She wondered if it was because of the thought of her seducing someone else or because of her triumph at winning his affection, even if he beat her at every other thing.

Maybe it was because Alex seemed to have more affection for them than he did anything else lately.

A still longer separation followed, but the wolf again remembered his old associate and showed great affection upon his return.

Let's just say, I may have misjudged more than your affection for me.

It didn't create trust or affection or hope or love.

There would be time enough for affection after the party – when they were alone.

You'll be building on an existing foundation of trust and affection.

Dean had trouble remembering who was who but all were of like mind in their affection for the old man who turned up the charm meter a notch or two.

He'd granted favors to women as a way of releasing his frustration, but never with any real affection-- just physical need.

You don't want to teach her that she'll be rewarded with affection or a treat if she whines.

Her character, as depicted in the poems, is not an attractive one; but she seems to have entertained a genuine affection for her lover.

While dogs are typically always ready for affection, a romp in the yard and a pat on the head, cats are more prone to let you know when they will "allow" you to love them.

Give him more attention and affection during this time to let him know you are not abandoning him and that everything will be fine.

How much affection do you want from your dog?

If he complies you can reward him with affection.

The peer group is a source of affection, sympathy, understanding, and experimentation.

Physical affection improves the quality of life overall including a person's love life.

Others may show affection differently, but bonding is still important.

The succeeding years of disunion and misrule under the Danes explain the belated affection with which his countrymen came to regard him.

These poems focus on what the person does for you that cause you to feel surges of affection and gratitude for the person being in your life.

It's a time of new beginnings and as such, guests usually bring gifts for the new home and life or money as a token of their affection and to help the happy couple get off to a beautiful start.

April points out that Cruise had "lost a great deal of public affection when he lashed out at Brooke Shields with his views on postpartum depression."

However, big girls still seem to have some affection for the furry one, leading to the creation of accessories for older teens and twenty-somethings.

Regardless of whether you choose to buy a friendship bracelet or make your own, these lovely jewelry items are a great way to express your affection for your friend.

Velvet from Overlord is one of two sisters who are vying for your affection.

In essence, parents become teachers as well as nurturers, providers of guidance as well as affection.

If affection is withheld, the child commonly is rebellious and antisocial.

Infants and small children should be cuddled and given affection for a few minutes so they do not associate the experience only with the pain.

The family can provide the child with affection, a sense of belonging, and validation.

And forget about displays of affection there unless you really wish to offend onlookers.

Or perhaps you have an unexplainable affection for this decade and all of its quirky fashions.

The receiver of your affection will know you took time to express your feelings and they were worthy of creating a permanent representation.

You'll defiantly get a guy who will break your heart, who cannot give you his full time, attention or affection.

Given that your affection for your boyfriend has changed, you have found yourself vulnerable to the attention of his son.

If honestly and affection are important, then don't settle for being in a relationship where those things don't exist.

On the other hand, should his level of affection seem to dwindle or be absent, it might indicate that his behavior has not changed.

Tokens of Affection - Children create these wonderful gifts for their mothers on Mother's Day and they are just as wonderful to give to your significant other.

I want him to be more affectionate sometimes, but I know he isn't because (not that he's frigid in the sense that he doesn't want to show affection) he just doesn't want to muck up.

His lack of affection could mean that he is trying to hide the relationship from others as well.

Avoid backhanded compliments - Some books and dating gurus advise that insulting a woman is actually a way to gain her affection.

She cuddled close to him and lifted her face for his affection.

He was, Powell recalled with affection, a slow starter.

But it was uttered in a tone of affection, which permitted me to feel that I had her attention.

My uxorious husband does his best to show his affection through my primary love languages.

Once the baby is born, he'll get gifts galore and be the focus of adoring comments and affection.

You may find a cat cuddling up with you in bed or waking you up every morning for some affection.

The important thing is to remember all the affection your pet gives so freely all year long, and offer him/her a nice holiday thank you of your own.

Kneading is a sign of affection and that your cat feels safe and secure with you.

While cats are quite independent, they do require routine care, love and affection.

However, for the most part, cats are fairly independent creatures that merely look forward to timely meals and adequate affection from their owners.

Darling "Fluffy" was once a highly meditative and affection cat, but since the introduction of the new kitten, Fluffy has become a hysterical hostile beast of rage.

Soothe your preschooler with frequent assurances of blamelessness and give him loving affection.

Communication involves the non-verbal shows of affection to each other as well.

Many bullies have a rocky home life with little warmth and affection.

Aside from the legalities of a same sex wedding ceremony, a commitment ceremony can be a beautiful expression of love and affection between couples.

No matter what your denomination, traditional wedding vows can express a wonderful sentiment and affection between a bride and groom.

The giving of leis is a customary way of showing your affection on the island.

Her first movie role was in Jennifer Aniston's 1998 film, The Object of My Affection.

Your dog will also receive individual attention and affection from staff members, as well as an individual kennel run with a comfy bed to relax in.

In the process, don't forget the most valuable training aid of all--your praise and affection for a job well done!

Owners tend to give their pets food and treats as a way of showing affection, but this habit can backfire if it isn't practiced with some restraint.

Maybe another dog sits constantly chained to his dog house in the backyard, never receiving the affection and companionship all dogs crave.

They're secretive but open with their affection.

The bracelets are traded between friends as a token of affection.

She frequently walks a dog, a loathsome animal who fails to warm to my affection.

But the idea he did want her was almost a relief, another sign he was capable of providing at least some form of affection.

She wondered what life would be like with someone like him, or if he was so bound to duty, there was no room for real affection.

Hypnotized by his somber gaze, she lifted her face to accept his affection.

For a few moments she resisted the temptation to surrender, but his embrace was electrifying and she found herself passionately returning his affection.

Some small part of her yearned to feel that sense of unconditional safety and affection.

When he leaned down to kiss her again, she eagerly returned his affection.

If they had to work at love during courtship, what would marriage be like - when he no longer needed to pretend affection?

The slave is a member of the family, and is treated with tenderness and affection.

If Hebrew, it might be derived from the root p rr (to embrace) as an intensive term of affection.

As all intellectual phenomena have by experimentalists been reduced to sensation, so all emotion has been and is regarded as reducible to simple mental affection, the element of which all emotional manifestations are ultimately composed.

In the first, all affection phenomena are primarily divisible into those which are pleasurable and those which are the reverse.

Thus it is found that the action of the heart is accelerated by pleasant, and retarded by unpleasant, stimuli; again, changes of weight and volume are found to accompany modifications of affection - and so on.

With his wife Russell always lived on terms of the greatest affection and confidence.

At first the revolutionary propaganda produced no personal animosity against the emperor, who continued to be treated by his people with every mark of respect and affection, but this state of things gradually changed.

Towards the close of 1888 the emperor returned and was received by the populace with every demonstration of affection and esteem.

Once prime minister, his personal popularity proved to be a powerful unifying influence in a somewhat heterogeneous party; and though the illness and death (August 30, 1906) of his wife (daughter of General Sir Charles Bruce), whom he had married in 1860, made his constant attendance in the House of Commons impossible, his domestic sorrow excited widespread sympathy and appealed afresh to the affection of his political followers.

Foreigners visiting Japan are immediately struck by the affection of the people for flowers, trees and natural beauties of every kind.

Therefore, even though Athenian domination may have been highly salutary in its effects, there can be no doubt that the allies did not regard it with affection.

Among these was an Englishman, Mr Charles Heath, for whom he had great respect and affection.

He took a leading part in the settlement of the dockers' strike in the autumn of 1889, and his patient and effectual action on this and on similar occasions secured for him the esteem and affection of great numbers of working men, so that his death on the 14th of January 1892, and his funeral a week later, were the occasion for a remarkable demonstration of popular veneration.

He retained through life a warm affection for the school, where he did well both in the classes and the games, and was famous as a walker.

Notwithstanding religious differences she lived in great harmony and affection with the king, latterly, however, residing mostly apart.

Marie Antoinette soon won the affection and confidence of the dauphin and endeared herself to the king, but her position was precarious, and both Mercy and Maria Theresa had continually to urge her to conquer her violent dislike for the favourite and try to conciliate her.

In his domestic relations he was exemplary, and he lived on terms of mutual affection with a wide circle of friends.

For Franklin this was a great triumph, and the news of it filled the colonists with delight and restored him to their confidence and affection.

Yet Bute had good principles and intentions, was inspired by feelings of sincere affection and loyalty for his sovereign, and his character remains untarnished by the grosser accusations raised by faction.

In a great sermon on the 10th of April (Easter week) 1588, he stoutly vindicated the Protestantism of the Church of England against the Romanists, and, oddly enough, adduced "Mr Calvin" as a new writer, with lavish praise and affection.

The school was denounced in the press, was not pecuniarily successful, and in 1839 was given up, although Alcott had won the affection of his pupils, and his educational experiments had challenged the attention of students of pedagogy.

Achilles is a typical Greek hero; handsome, brave, celebrated for his fleetness of foot, prone to excess of wrath and grief, at the same time he is compassionate, hospitable, full of affection for his mother and respect for the gods.

In 1864 he did not stand for re-election, owing to an affection of the eyes, but in 1866 he was one of the first to point out the way to a reconciliation between Bismarck and his former opponents.

The readers of this weekly paper acquired a personal affection for its editor, and he was thus for many years the American writer most widely known and most popular among the rural classes.

He neither had nor professed any enthusiastic affection for his wife, but he lived on excellent terms with her, and bestowed some pains on the education of the only child (a daughter, Leonore) who survived infancy.

But family affection, except towards his father, was by no means Montaigne's strongest point.

Count less entries in the queen's diaries testify to the anxious affection with which the progress of each little member of the household was watched.

People noticed meanwhile that the queen had taken a great affection for her Scottish man-servant, John Brown, who had been in her service since 1849; she made him her constant personal attendant, and looked on him more as a friend than as servant.

He was succeeded by his son, the emperor Frederick III., regarded with special affection in England as the husband of the princess royal.

That most favourable to him is that he was expected to lend himself in a more or less complaisant manner to assist and cover Madame d'Epinay's adulterous affection for Grimm.

Yet his correspondence and memoirs prove that he retained for Napoleon warm feelings of affection.

He crushed the rebellion and won the affection of the natives by his just and enlightened administration, which had no parallel in the annals of Portuguese rule in the archipelago.

His early years were partly spent at the court of his grandfather Charlemagne, whose special affection he is said to have won.

Owing to a miracle which he is alleged to have worked on a child suffering from a throat affection, who was brought to him on his way to execution, St Blaise's aid has always been held potent in throat and lung diseases.

The upright and considerate manner in which he treated the provincials won him their affection, but at the same time brought upon him the hatred of Nero, who felt specially aggrieved because Soranus had refused to punish a city which had defended the statues of its gods against the Imperial commissioners.

To commemorate her filial affection a temple was dedicated (181 B.C.) by Manius Acilius Glabrio to Pietas in the Forum Holitorium at Rome, on the spot where the young woman had formerly lived.

After the assassination of Buckingham in 1628 the barrier between the married pair was broken down, and the bond of affection which from that moment united them was never loosened.

She had only to bide her time while Mary made straight her successor's path by uprooting whatever affection the English people had for the Catholic faith, Roman jurisdiction and Spanish control.

Lack of social graces and the deficiencies of his early education impeded him at first, but "in the end `Old Jack,' as he was always called, with his desperate earnestness, his unflinching straightforwardness, and his high sense of honour, came to be regarded with something like affection."

He pushes the claim even further, requiring, besides entire outward submission to command, also the complete identification of the place of God, without reference to his personal wisdom, piety or discretion; that any obedience which falls short of making the superior's will one's own, in inward affection as well as in outward effect, is lax aect; that going beyond the letter of command, even in things abstractly good and praiseworthy, is disobedience, and that the "sacrifice of the intellect" is the third and highest grade of obedience, well pleasing to God, when the inferior not only wills what the superior wills, but thinks what he thinks, submitting his judgment, so far as it is possible for the will to influence and lead the judgment.

It may be affection, or it may be fear, which prompts the survivor to feed and tend his dead; in general no doubt it is a mixture of both feelings.

The most interesting episode of his life was his intimacy with Locke, who in his letters speaks of him with affection and admiration.

There he laboured with great success, visiting the different islands of the group in the mission ship the "Southern Cross," and by his good sense and devotion winning the esteem and affection of the natives.

A skilful party-leader, Laurier kept from the first not only the affection of his political friends but the respect of his opponents; while enforcing the orderly conduct of public business, he was careful as first minister to maintain the dignity of parliament.

It is rather a family panegyric than a scientific history, in which the affection of the daughter and the vanity of the author stand out prominently.

As queen of Prussia she commanded universal respect and affection, and nothing in Prussian history is more pathetic than the dignity and unflinching courage with which she bore the sufferings inflicted on her and her family during the war between Prussia and France.

The young king regarded him with an affection which the superstition of the time attributed to witchcraft.

It was, however, based on the personal affection of the king.

What that influence was will be always debated, but both his carnets and the Briihl letters show that a real personal affection, amounting to passion on the queen's part, existed.

Her devotion to her father is historical; she gave him not only the tender affection of a daughter but the high-minded sympathy of a soul great as his own.

He holds that all the time, space, motion, matter known to us are phenomena; and that force, the ultimate of ultimates, is, as known to us, a phenomenon, " an affection of consciousness."

In the first place, the term " phenomenon " is ambiguous, sometimes meaning a conscious affection and sometimes any fact whatever.

Now, Spencer has clearly, though unconsciously, changed the meaning of the term " phenomenon " from subjective affection of consciousness to any fact of nature, in regarding all this evolution, cosmic, organic, mental, social and ethical, as an evolution of phenomena.

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who was chief secretary for Ireland, suffered from an affection of the eyes and found it desirable to resign, and Lord Salisbury appointed his nephew in his stead.

In St Bernard's treatise De consideratione, addressed to Pope Eugenius III., the papacy receives as many reprimands and attacks as it does marks of affection and friendly counsel.

It may be admitted that he clung to his native Florence and to his family with warm affection; but the really decisive factor which governed his attitude throughout was his anxiety for the temporal and spiritual independence of the Holy See.

Perhaps the most famous are a little treatise on Italian prose, and a dialogue entitled Gli Asolani, in which Platonic affection is explained and recommended in a rather longwinded fashion, to the amusement of the reader who remembers the relations of the beautiful Morosina with the author.

And with certain cutaneous diseases accompanied by constitutional disturbances which afflict cattle, the affection in the skin appears on the patches bearing white hairs, the other parts remaining apparently healthy.

His sympathy with men of other ways and thought, and with the truth in other ecclesiastical systems gained for him the confidence and affection of men of varied habits of mind and religious traditions, and was thus a great factor in gaining increasing support for the Episcopal Church.

But it is the general opinion of historians that he had a high sense of his responsibilities and a strong love of justice; despite the looseness of his personal morals, he commanded the affection and respect of Gilbert Foliot and Hugh of Lincoln, the most upright of the English bishops.

The two men were mutually attracted, and a warm affection sprang up betweem them.

Hume's cheerful temper, his equanimity, his kindness to literary aspirants and to those whose views differed from his own won him universal respect and affection.

Within this the individual moves and acts with liberty and responsibility; for each, in will, affection and intellect is consubstantial with the rest.

This will be preserved inseparable (from the Divine), and so inherited the name which is above all names, the prize of love and affection vouchsafed in grace to him."

Sempronius Gracchus, who by his generous treatment of the vanquished gained their esteem and affection.

Though he seems to have had a warm affection for his countrymen, it was as human beings brought into contact with him, and not as members of a political body, that he preferred to regard them.

But all his affection had been concentrated on her.

His father's second wife, Elizabeth Farnese, was a managing woman, who had no affection except for her own children, and who looked upon her stepson as an obstacle to their fortunes.

The father died young, and never inspired love or much regret in his son; but in spite of wide differences of opinion, tender affection always subsisted between William Godwin and his mother, until her death at an advanced age.

Conti started rather unwillingly for his new kingdom, probably, as St Simon remarks, owing to his affection for Frangoise, wife of Philip II., duke of Orleans, and daughter of Louis XIV.

He would in any case have been incapacitated by an affection of the eyesight, which for a while threatened to withdraw him from public life altogether.

His best work, the Valesiana (1694), was inspired by filial affection; in it he collected a number of historical and critical observations, anecdotes and Latin poems of his father.

As he grew up he became extremely dissatisfied with the dull and monotonous life he was compelled to lead; and his discontent was heartily shared by his sister, Wilhelmina, a bright and intelligent young princess for whom Frederick had a warm affection.

Charles, however, always recognized him as his son, and lavished on him an almost doting affection.

Racial, administrative, and economic problems of an intricate kind pressed upon him and were not always wisely decided; and it says much for his personal charm that he carried away with him on his retirement the warm affection of the Rhodesians.

In the matter of the French alliance he knew himself to be practically isolated in Russia, and he declared that he could not sacrifice the interest of his people and empire to his affection for Napoleon.

His famous son writes with reverence and affection of both parents, and has left a touching narrative of their death-bed hours.

No doubt there must have been some kind of foundation for Pirkheimer's charges; and it is to be noted that neither in Darer's early correspondence with this intimate friend, nor anywhere in his journals, does he use any expressions of tenderness or affection for his wife, only speaking of her as his housemate and of her helping in the sale of his prints,&c. That he took her with him on his journey to the Netherlands shows at any rate that there can have been no acute estrangement.

He went to Scotland to see his mother, to whom he had always shown the tenderest affection, on her deathbed at the end of 18J3.

Bohmer had a great dislike of Prussia and the Protestant faith, and a corresponding affection for Austria and the Roman Catholic Church, to which, however, he did not belong.

Andromache is one of the finest characters in Homer, distinguished by her affection for her husband and child, her misfortunes and the resignation with which she endures them.

Hegel's letters to his wife, written during his solitary holiday tours to Vienna, the Netherlands and Paris, breathe of kindly and happy affection.

And in this case it was natural enough because of their deep-seated affection for the royal house of Alexandria."

A form Ath-Firdia, however, is connected with the ancient story of the warrior Cuchullain of Ulster, who, while defending the ford against the men of Connaught, was forced to slay many with whom he was on friendly terms, and among them the warrior Firdia, whom he regarded with special affection.

His generosity, his courage and his commanding height, had already commended him to the affection of the Irish.

The early stages of morphinism are marked by moral degeneration; the patient seems to lose all sense of right and wrong, and will lie most plausibly and even thieve to obtain the drug; personal disorderliness, disregard of time, neglect of business and decline of family affection become soon evident.

The optimates finally decided to support him for the consulship in order to keep out Catiline, and he eagerly embraced the " good cause," his affection for which from this time onward never varied, though his actions were not always consistent.

He had won the affection of Omar, by his knowledge of the Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet, and by the fact that he had employed the first money he earned to purchase the freedom of his mother Somayya.

Addressing the Kufians, he said, "Inhabitants of Kufa, ye are those whose affection towards us has ever been constant and true; ye have never changed your mind, nor swerved from it, notwithstanding all the pressure of the unjust upon you.

This brilliant success so increased Mandi's affection for Harun that he appointed him successor-designate after Musa and named him al-Rashid (" the follower of the right cause").

Pere de la Chaise had a lasting and unalterable affection for Fenelon, which remained unchanged by the papal condemnation of the Maximes.

Duputy, president of the parlement of Bordeaux, with whom Vergniaud became acquainted, conceived the greatest admiration and affection for him and appointed him his secretary.

His tender affection for his relatives abundantly appears from his correspondence, along with his profound attachment to the great ideas of the Revolution and his noble love of country.

She suffered as a child from an affection of the eyes, and was sent to France for medical treatment, residing with her grandmother, Henrietta Maria, and on the latter's death with her aunt, the duchess of Orleans, and returning to England in 1670.

A very remarkable circumstance was the death of animals (rats, and more rarely snakes) at the outbreak of an epidemic. The rats brought up blood, and the body of one examined after death by Dr Francis showed an affection of the lungs.'

When seven years old the orphaned Beowulf was adopted by his grandfather king Hrethel, the father of Hygelac, and was regarded by him with as much affection as any of his own sons.

Though a man of great personal strength, Arkwright never enjoyed good health, and throughout his career of invention and discovery he laboured under a severe asthmatic affection.

He had made a quiet but deep impression on all who came within his influence in Oxford, and during his five years of college tutorship had won the affection of his pupils.

He was passionately attached to his wife and children; and, while his friend Beccadelli signed the licentious verses of Hermaphroditus, his own Muse celebrated in liberal but loyal strains the pleasures of conjugal affection, the charm of infancy and the sorrows of a husband and a father in the loss of those he loved.

He retired from the presidency in 1797, 1 and returned to Mount Vernon, his journey thither being marked by popular demonstrations of affection and esteem.

His disorder was an oedematous affection of the wind-pipe, contracted by exposure during a long ride in a snowstorm, and aggravated by neglect and by such contemporary remedies as bleeding, gargles of "molasses, vinegar and butter" and "vinegar and sage tea," which "almost suffocated him," and a blister of cantharides.

He never equalled Clay in the latter's magnetism of impulse and inspiration of affection, but he far surpassed him in clearness and directness and in tenacity of will.

To understand the genesis of human morality we must study the ways of sociable animals such as horses and monkeys, which give each other assistance in trouble, feel mutual affection and sympathy, and experience pleasure in doing actions that benefit the society to which they belong.

The earl still continued his usual course of dealing with the queen, depending solely upon her supposed affection for him, and insanely jealous of any other whom she might seem to favour.

He at once set off, and, trusting apparently to her affection for him, presented himself suddenly before her.

Her daughter Adele (1796-1849) seems to have had a brave, tender and unsatisfied heart, and lavished on her brother an affection he sorely tried.

Of singularly alert faculties, with a remarkable knowledge of the men and history of his country, and an extraordinary memory, his masterful talent for politics and state-craft, together with his captivating manner and engaging personality, gave him, for nearly two decades, an unrivalled hold upon the fealty and affection of his party.

Early in life, too, he met with the doctrines of Jacob Behmen, of whom, in the Biographia Literaria, he speaks with affection and gratitude as having given him vital philosophic guidance.

It might be mistaken for pleurisy or some inflammatory affection of the lungs; but the absence of any chest symptoms, its occurrence independently of the acts of respiration, and other considerations well establish the distinction.

But by regarding benevolence less as a definite desire for the general good as such than as kind affection for particular individuals, he practically eliminates it as a regulative principle and reduces the authorities in the polity of the soul to two - conscience and self-love.

Ricardo died on the nth of September 1823, at his seat (Gatcomb Park) in Gloucestershire, from a cerebral affection resulting from disease of the ear.

After a conflict of mutual affection, Pylades at last yields, but the letter brings about a recognition between brother and sister, and all three escape together, carrying with them the image of Artemis.

The lesions mentioned are in many instances necessarily accompanied by functional disturbances or clinical symptoms, symptoms. varying according to site, and to the nature and degree of the affection.

He was not incapable of affection nor without generous impulses, but he was flighty, passionate in a childish way, and when angry capable of cruelty.

He set little store on the theology of those who in a system of dry and barren notions "pay handsome compliments to the Deity," "remove providence," "explode devotion," and leave but "little of zeal, affection, or warmth in what they call rational religion."

Edwards, however, proved a skilful pilot, and his hold on the affection of the Welsh people enabled him to raise the college to a high level of efficiency.

The latter part of his reign was comparatively peaceful, and he gained the affection of his subjects by his honesty and his cultivation of the arts.

His views were identical with those of Proclus, who regarded him with great affection and left orders that he should be buried in the same tomb.

It rested on a solid basis of mutual affection and of common studies, the different temperaments of the two scholars securing them against the disagreements of rivalry or jealousy.

His consort, Elizabeth of Austria, "the mother of the Jagiellos," bore him six sons and seven daughters, and by her affection and good counsel materially relieved the constant anxieties and grievous burdens of his long and arduous reign.

His affection for the memory of his mother and dissatisfaction with his own innovation on ancient customs thus blended together; and we can sympathize with his tears.

No wife nor child was by to do the offices of affection, nor was the expectation of another life with him, when he passed away from among men.

They notice the selfdenying affection of the mothers, and the hard treatment of the wives by the husbands, polygamy and the shifting marriage unions.

Hence there is little family affection, and what exists is only between children of the same father and mother.

Theodore soon after married his second wife Terunish, the proud daughter of the late governor of Tigre, who felt neither affection nor respect for the upstart who had dethroned her father, and the union was by no means a happy one.

Becoming also tutor to the maiden, he used the unlimited power which he thus obtained over her for the purpose of seduction, though not without cherishing a real affection which she returned in unparalleled devotion.

Burke, who regarded him with great affection, said that he had "something high" in his nature, and that it was "a wild stock of pride on which the tenderest of all hearts had grafted the milder virtues."

We see him living on terms of constant affection with his father, and in disputes with his brothers not the aggressor but the sufferer from aggression.

It is, however, only fair to note that he always regarded Pitt with strong personal affection, and that he may very naturally have been influenced, as multitudes of other Englishmen were, by the rapid development of the French Revolution from a reforming to an aggressive and conquering force.

The Great Being confides specially to them its moral Providence, maintaining through them the direct and constant cultivation of universal affection, in the midst of all the distractions of thought or action, which are for ever withdrawing men from its influence..

Vanessa insensibly became his pupil, and he insensibly became the object of her impassioned affection.

For many years, nevertheless, he maintained a correspondence with Pope and Bolingbroke, and with Arbuthnot and Gay until their deaths, with such warmth as to prove that an ill opinion of mankind had not made him a misanthrope, and that human affection and sympathy were still very necessary to him.

Slight as the story is, it is worked out into one of the most affecting poems in the language, and gives to literature one of its most perfect types of womanhood and of "affection that hopes and endures and is patient."

As a soldier he possessed to an extraordinary degree the enthusiastic affection of his men.

Yet tradition is unanimous as to his affection for his family, and as to the harmony in which he lived with his brother Thomas who had married Marguerite de Lamperiere, younger sister of Marie, and whose household both at Rouen and at Paris was practically one with that of his brother.

There is, however, a certain coolness about the hero's affection for his wife which somewhat detracts from the merit of his sacrifice; while the Christian part of the matter is scarcely so well treated as in the Saint Genest of Rotrou or the Virgin Martyr of Massinger.

On 'the other hand, the entire parts of Pauline and Severe are beyond praise, and the manner in which the former reconciles her duty as a wife with her affection for her lover is an astonishing success.

Beloved," added he, speaking to the rest of the disciples, "Ananda for long years has served me with devoted affection."

The affection in which Mr. Law was held by the House which he led was shown this session in a peculiarly happy manner.

But the duke came to an arrangement with his father-in-law, by which he regained Piacenza and his other fiefs The rest of his life was spent quietly at home, where the moderation and wisdom of his rule won for him the affection of his people.

He has left an odious picture of himself in the historians - a man untouched by benefits or natural affection, delighting in deeds of blood, his body as loathsome in its blown corpulence as his soul.

There was fosterage for affection, for payment and for a literary education.

The affection arising from this relationship was usually greater, and was regarded as more sacred than that of blood relationship.

Although Tiberius is said to have received the news of his death with indifference, there is no reason to suppose that he had any hand in it; indeed, he seems to have entertained a genuine affection for his son.

In 1829 he became the first Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, and continued until his death to hold this position, meeting with remarkable success as a teacher and winning the affection of his students, whom he imbued with much of his own enthusiasm.

Edward indeed was a man worthy of respect, if not of affection.

She displayed from the first a dignity and good sense which won the affection of the multitude who merely saw her in public, and the confidence of the advisers who were admitted into her presence.

History may hereafter conclude that the most significant circumstance of the earlier period is to be found in the demonstration of loyalty and affection to which the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victorias accession led in 1897.

Ten years before, her jubilee had been the occasion of enthusiastic rejoicings, and the queens progress through London to a service of thanksgiving at Westminster bad impressed the imagination of her subjects and proved the affection of her people.

In every portion of the globe the sixtieth anniversary of the queens reign excited interest; in every country the queens name was mentioned with affection and respect; while the people of the United States vied with the subjects of the British empire in praise of the queens character and in expressions of regard for her person.

In the summer of 1794 Burke was struck to the ground by a blow to his deepest affection in life, and he never recovered from it.

But so long as there were representatives of the family alive, there was always a possible pretender to the throne which he occupied; and the people had not lost their affection for their former deliverers.

These letters, written with the utmost freedom and fullness to the one whose affection and intellect he trusted more than any, are of the greatest value for interpreting the writer.

In his organization there was a peculiar, perhaps a great deficiency; he was a man without affection.

The only son of Stephen Flamsteed, a maltster, he was educated at the free school of Derby, but quitted it finally in May 1662, in consequence of a rheumatic affection of the joints, due to a chill caught while bathing.

The next seventeen years were passed in active ministry at Brooklyn, whence in 1854, owing to a throat affection, he removed to Owego, N.Y.

So far, however, there is no ethical difference between Christian faith and that of Judaism, or its later imitation, Mahommedanism; except that the personal affection of loyal trust is peculiarly stirred by the blending of human and divine natures in Christ, and the rule of duty impressively taught by the manifestation of his perfect life.

In Plato's exposition of the different virtues there is no mention whatever of benevolence, although his writings show a keen sense of the importance of friendship as an element of philosophic life, especially of the intense personal affection naturally arising between master and disciple.

Thus, Hugo of St Victor (1077-1141) argues that all love is necessarily so far " interested " that it involves a desire for union with the beloved; and since eternal happiness consists in this union, it cannot truly be desired apart from God; while Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) more elaborately distinguishes four stages by which the soul is gradually led from (I) merely selfregarding desire for God's aid in distress, to (2) love him for his loving-kindness to it, then also (3) for his absolute goodness, until (4) in rare moments this love for himself alone becomes the sole all-absorbing affection.

It remains to consider how, from the doctrine that affection is the proper object of approbation, we are to deduce moral rules or " natural laws " prescribing or prohibiting outward acts.

An action is formally good when it flowed from good affection in a just proportion."

Both thinkers hold that this perception of right and wrong in actions is accompanied by a perception of merit and demerit in agents, and also by a specific emotion; but whereas Price conceives this emotion chiefly as pleasure or pain, analogous to that produced in the mind by physical beauty or deformity, Reid regards it chiefly as benevolent affection, esteem and sympathy (or their opposites), for the virtuous (or vicious) agent.

This influence, so far as it has affected moral as distinct from political speculation, has been exercised primarily through the general conception of human progress; which, in Comte's view, consists in the ever growing preponderance of the distinctively human attributes over the purely animal, social feelings being ranked highest among human attributes, and highest of all the most universalized phase of human affection, the devotion to humanity as a whole.

Regarding the social tendency as originally itself an instinct developed out of parental or filial affection, he seems to suggest that natural selection, which was the chief cause of its development in the earlier stages, may very probably influence the transition from purely tribal and social morality into morality in its later and more complex forms. But he admits that natural selection is not necessarily the only cause, and he refrains from identifying the fully developed morality of civilized nations with the " social instinct."

For seven years there was no communication between the two branches of the family, till at last, when Hypatius had become a Christian, Salvian wrote him a most touching letter in his own name, his wife's, and that of his little daughter Auspiciola, begging for the renewal of the old affection (Ep. iv.).

He seems also to have kept up his connexion with Geneva by addressing letters of counsel and comfort to the faithful there who continued to regard him with affection.

Affection and a firm belief in a future state, in which the exact condition of the dying is continued, are the Fijians' own explanations of the custom, once universal, of killing sick or aged relatives.

As in every affection of our being by individual phenomena we are brought into contact with the hwhole universe, we are brought into contact with God at the same time as its transcendental cause.

Fosterage might be undertaken out of affection or for payment.

She is said to have been killed by another Amazon, Molpadia, a rival in her affection for Theseus.

Vettor Pisani, who had been imprisoned after the defeat at Pola, but who possessed the confidence of the people and the affection of the sailors, was released and named commander-in-chief against the wish of the aristocracy.

So far as gaining Romolo's confidence and affection, the plan was entirely successful, but it was thwarted by Philip's own resolve to take holy orders.

His engrossing intellectual labours no doubt tended somewhat to harden his character; and in his zeal for rectitude of purpose he forgot the part which affection and sentiment must ever play in the human constitution.

Up to the stage indicated by the Dissertation he had been attempting, in various ways, to unite two radically divergent modes of explaining cognition - that which would account for the content of experience by reference to affection from things without us, and that which viewed the intellect itself as somehow furnished with the means of pure, rational cognition.

He very commonly employs the term affection of the faculty of sense as expressing the mode of origin, but offers no further explanation of a term which has significance only when interpreted after a somewhat mechanical fashion.

The relation between phenomena and noumena in the Kantian system does not in the least resemble that which plays so important a part in modern psychology - between the subjective results of sense affection and the character of the objective conditions of such affection.

And, finally, it is not at all difficult to understand why Kant should say that the affection of sense originated in the action of things-in-themselves, when we consider what was the thing-in-itself to which he was referring.

Affection of sense, even when received into the pure forms of perception, is not matter of knowledge.

Her marriage with Malatesta did not take place until 1456; but of the ardent affection that had long bound them together there are stronger proofs than the lover's juvenile verses, or than even the children Isotta had borne to him.

Tipping her head back, she invited his affection with her eyes.

She snuggled against his body, but this time when she lifted her lips for his affection, he laughed.

He closed his eyes, enjoying her affection and her emotion.

Once she told Damian about the woman whose hand rested intimately on his arm, who he smiled at with genuine affection … If not for the dead man in her head, she'd be alone.

The brutal reality was that he'd double-bound her to ensure he didn't lose – and not because any part of him was capable of affection.

You show me affection in your own way, don't you?

It was unclear if the gesture was a token of affection or made to emphasize a point in her animated conversation.

Despite Rhyn's frustration, there was affection on his face as he talked about his mate.

He'd meant to piss her off earlier, keep her from developing any sort of affection for someone who had no intention of keeping her.

He.d gone from being tormented by his own mother to the affection of an abusive father who regretted ever having him.

Jerome held Donnie's hand while his other arm was about Edith's shoulder, in a grasp that looked to Dean a tad too tight for simple affection.

Then he called to Elisabeth, "Come meet your competition for my affection."

There would be time enough for affection after the party – when they were alone.

After his death she became the devoted attendant and supporter of the Roman pontiff and cherished an extraordinary affection for him.

Her care for, and interest in her Regiment inspired great affection and respect.

Progressive taxation preserves equity, which is the reason the NHS has retained the affection of the people.

Actually, Roxana has 12 children but she seems to be totally incapable of feeling real affection for them.

Professor Macrory said he would explore the possible relevance of the Law Commission's current review of the law on injurious affection.

A bond of brotherly affection and patriarchal intimacy unites all its members.

He possessed a deep knowledge of France and her history, an abiding affection for the Commonwealth and especially the USA.

Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another.

By bringing my niece here I believe I have given her an excellent chance of regaining her husband's affection.

His former affection being still powerful over him, he obeyed the summons, in the hope of once again beholding Helen.

With these wishes to you all, I send with a pledge of continuing affection, a special apostolic benediction.

Can a man consent to place the object of his affection in a situation so discordant, probably, to her tastes and inclinations?

Accordingly, the lyrics were concerned with expressing affection and exploring more tender emotions.

Also, I've eaten escargots in the past, very good in garlic butter, which makes affection dafter still.

I remember you and your brother with great affection and remember eating falafel with you both in Canada.

His cruel illness triggered a quite extraordinary outpouring of affection.

Two eminent physicians had consulted over his case without being able to give a name to the affection from which he suffered.

It is a measure of the abiding affection for this apparently throwaway pop group that they are still well remembered nine years on.

Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.

Vijay is adopted by a kindly and lonely widower, who showers all his affection and love on him.

Perception is sensation caused by a present affection of the external extremities of the nerves; memory is sensation caused, in the absence of present excitation, by dispositions of the nerves which are the result of past experiences; judgment is the perception of relations between sensations, and is itself a species of sensation, because if we are aware of the sensations we must be aware also of the relations between them; will he identifies with the feeling of desire, and therefore includes it as a variety of sensation.

Peter was a rare and unwelcome guest in his own family, and a son who loved his mother could have little affection for a father who had ever been that mother's worst persecutor.

On the 17th of November Shaftesbury moved in the House of Lords for a divorce to enable the king to marry a Protestant and have legitimate issue; but he received little support, and the bill was opposed by Charles, who continued to show his wife "extraordinary affection."

During his frequent absences he entrusted the government of the Netherlands to the tried hands of his aunt, Margaret, who retained his confidence until her death (November 1530), and secured the affection of all Netherlanders.

He was not insensible to Charles's good qualities, was touched by the paternal affection he showed for his children, and is said to have declared that Charles" was the uprightest and most conscientious man of his three kingdoms."The Heads of the Proposals, which, on Charles raising objections, had been modified by the influence of Cromwell and Ireton, demanded the control of the militia and the choice of ministers by parliament for ten years, a religious toleration, and a council of state to which much of the royal control over the army and foreign policy would be delegated.

This rhythmic affection of vegetable protoplasm can be observed in very many of its functions.

His immediate successors, being men of humble origin and submissive character, made no pretensions to such an exalted position, but when the haughty, ambitious and energetic Nikon, who enjoyed in large measure the affection and favour of the devout Tsar Alexius, became patriarch, he took Philaret as his model, and propounded, like the popes in western Europe, the doctrine that the spiritual is higher than the temporal power, the former corresponding to the sun and the latter to the moon in the firmament.

The Pharisees decided that they could not take action on either side, since the elder son of Alexandra was directed by the Idumaean Antipater; and the people had an affection for such Asmonean princes as dared to challenge the Roman domination of their ancestral kingdom.

Next day an autopsy was held at which it was stated that a child apparently about ten years of age, "which the commissioners told us was the late Louis Capet's son," had died of a scrofulous affection of long standing.

Josephus informs us that, after the murder of his father, Herod the Great sent him to Rome to the court of Tiberius, who conceived a great affection for him, and placed him near his son Drusus, whose favour he very soon won.

Cuvier gives an interesting account of a young wolf which, having been trained to follow his master, showed affection and submission scarcely inferior to the domesticated dog.

This affection was amply returned.

Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting the districts ravaged by cholera or devastated by earthquake in 1885.

The pathos of natural affection is occasionally recognized in Statius and more rarely in Martial,' but it has not the depth of tenderness found in Lucretius and Virgil.

Being childless, and with a husband who could not command her respect, her longing for affection led her to form various intimate friendships, above all with the princesse de Lamballe and the comtesse Jules de Polignac, who soon obtained such an empire over her affections that no favour was too great for them to ask, and often to obtain.

On the next day the emperor William officially announced the betrothal of the Cesarevitch (afterwards the tsar Nicholas II.) to the princess Alix of Hesse, a granddaughter whom the queen had always regarded with special affection.

He was a devout member of the Church of England, to which he looked up with unstinted affection and reverence; and he found in its service and formularies an adequate satisfaction for all his religious feelings.

Neruda, a poet of bitter irony but of profound faith in and affection towards his nation, was also the author of novels, notable for their original realism, and numerous belletristic works of a high order.

His popular name of Der Gutige (the good sort of man) expressed as much derision as affection.

While online romance remains a valid option for many, scammers understand that lonely hearts may sometimes become desperate for affection.

The object of your affection may very well respond in kind with a love letter of his or her own, but the best love letters pick up the threads of previous conversations and invite your lover to join you.

You worry about making a good impression about whether or not she will return the affection or interest and you worry about looking like a fool.

Like communication, this may not be as obvious as a lack of physical affection.

Try to realize that these attempts, though clumsy, are sincere signals of their affection.

Little notes of love and affection emailed or text messaged will lift your loved one's heart and make him smile.

Anger and resentment towards your spouse or lover may make some easy targets for misplaced affection.

Say "no" to boring gifts and creatively show your love and affection with thoughtful presents.