Be fond of

Usage examples of liking.

Sis and old Si and Shep Hodgden and Gimmy Biddle and Charles Fifield was there and father said this will make jest the horse you want for your store and old Si said she aint biger than a rat and father said i gess she is big enuf to carry out all your lodes unless you put down your price, and then they all laffed at Si, and then Si said she was a puller and father said what do you want Josiar one that you have to push, and then they laffed agen and when father called him Josiar i know Si had better look out for when father calls me Henry i know i am in for a liking.

I felt that the way she was talking would give her a liking for me, and I was satisfied that the man who can give birth to amorous desires is easily called upon to gratify them it was the reward I was ardently longing for, and I dared to hope it would be mine, although I could see it only looming in the distance.

For two hours she told me the history of her unfortunate amour, and as she told it well I began to take a liking for her.

She kept nodding, and found herself liking Jig Arek for her single-minded enthusiasm.

But in few cases can we get at our permanent liking without at least as much experience as a fishmonger must have had before he can choose at once the best bloater out of twenty which, to inexperienced eyes, seem one as good as the other.

The other requirement was that we had to mind their cat, a beautiful but nervous bluepoint male Himalayan that took a liking to me and nobody else.

Blifil, and to behave to him as civilly as she could, for on that condition only she obtained a promise from her aunt to keep secret the liking which her ill fortune, rather than any scheme of Mrs.

He assured us that no one could help liking him, because he always preferred to be treated as a friend rather than a monarch.

My readers will be aware that I had good reason for not liking Medini, but in spite of our quarrel I could not despise his entreaty.

Mven Mass laughed so heartily and frankly that Darr Veter could feel his liking for the man growing fast.

My greatest objection was to spend a year in Adrianople to learn a language for which I did not feel any liking, and which I should therefore have learned but imperfectly.

Once she was positioned to his liking, Kerian climbed onto the back of the drack, carefully avoiding any placement of his legs that would impede its wing movements, and motioned it to rise.

I demonstrate any liking for a person, he runs immediately to Duma and gets him to select that person as an offering.

These are odds that are just a wee bit beyond my liking, forbye that we had no meat in our bellies.

The strongest overboiling of English Puritan contempt of a gabbler, would not stop women from liking it.