Affectionate utterance

Usage examples of endearment.

The good marchioness, believing these endearments to be peculiar to river spirits, was pleased with everything, and begged the Undine to shew me the same kindness.

Bagnet trusts to the combined endearments of Quebec and Malta to restore him, but finding those young ladies sensible that their existing Bluffy is not the Bluffy of their usual frolicsome acquaintance, she winks off the light infantry and leaves him to deploy at leisure on the open ground of the domestic hearth.

He watched the goddess move from horse to horse, clucking and murmuring and whispering strange endearments to each of them.

The latter lent herself to my endearments with a bad enough grace, as she hoped Harlequin would marry her, and consequently did not want to vex him.

Tal, Tanth Ein, and Faralin Ferd called out to their own women, employing endearments and abuse in equal measure.

Wary of her remembered endearments, Bobby kept a safe distance from the maidie, but he sat up and lolled his tongue, quite willing to pay her a friendly visit.

A moment later, however, the lovers started up again with a rustling of sheets, an exchange of soft endearments, with sweet exhalations and profound sighs, all signaling, he assumed, a shift in position, a pianissimo movement in their lustful symphony.

Then when Clodius pounced on her murmuring endearments through little kisses all over her face, she made the mistake of laughing at his absurdity, and sent him away with the sound of her chuckles booming in his ears.

He wrote to Lizzie, inconsequential letters with formal endearments, and received volumes of gossipy pages in response, filled with trivia about Florence, and The Forks, and the extravagances of her mother.

A thousand endearments crowded his mind, and he realized ruefully that he was every bit the mooncalf that he had accused McKenna of being the previous day.

They preserve the purest and tenderest affection for each other, an affection daily encreased and confirmed by mutual endearments and mutual esteem.

Gavin rather envied the horse for the way she murmured endearments to it.

Her professions and explanations were mixed with eager challenges and sudden drops, in the midst of which Maisie recognised as a memory of other years the rattle of her trinkets and the scratch of her endearments, the odour of her clothes and the jumps of her conversation.

Even Bierce Valeur, who stood at her side crooning endearments, did not venture to touch her at such a moment.

Head bowed, Eliste walked quickly, avoiding the eye contact that she had discovered invited solicitation, endearments, crooned obscenities.