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Usage examples of "affections".
However, as the little girl had no part in my affections, I did not push the thing any farther.
The rivalling poor Jones, and supplanting him in her affections, added another spur to his pursuit, and promised another additional rapture to his enjoyment.
The whole thoughts, therefore, of both the brothers were how to engage the affections of this amiable lady.
Allworthy, yet it did not alienate his affections from the little foundling, to whom he had been godfather, had given his own name of Thomas, and whom he had hitherto seldom failed of visiting, at least once a day, in his nursery.
He was convinced the girl had placed all her affections, and all her prospect of future happiness, in him only.
Honour, which may a little relieve those tender affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good-natured reader Mrs.
You have so intirely gained her affections, that it is the loss of you, and not of her reputation, which afflicts her, and will end in the destruction of her and her family.
But I should not be the honest man you think me, if I did not tell you that my affections are engaged to another, who is a woman of virtue, and one that I never can leave, though it is probable I shall never possess her.
Something might be necessary, he observed, to excite the affections of the common people, who were sunk in languor and lethargy, and therefore he supposed that the new concomitants of methodism might probably produce so desirable an effect.
A singer from Venice, called Guadani, handsome, a thorough musician, and very witty, contrived to captivate her affections three weeks after my quarrel with her.
Two years after his arrival in Paris he fell in love with Madame de Colande, and, finding it impossible to win her affections, he killed himself.
It is one of the most curious circumstances of my history, that in one year two women whom I sincerely loved and whom I might have married were taken from me by two old men, whose affections I had fostered without wishing to do so.
You might have loved me without telling me, and then, though I should have perceived the state of your affections, I could have pretended not to do so.
Though Publius Clodius had been the love of her youth, she seemed to have transferred her affections to the very different Curio most successfully.
Upon his death she hastened her return to England, and refusing, with somewhat of honourable pride, the magnificent pension which Louis wished to settle upon the widow of his favourite, came to throw herself and her children upon those affections which she knew they were entitled to claim.