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He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband and father of four children.
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This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
He found that he no longer hated Dolores ( he knew how much he had hated her ), and he was surprised at a resurgence of an affectionate feeling.
:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.
She was a loyal, affectionate wife, who supported her husband.
Morris would later recall an early conversation with Julia: " I was talking to a mass murderer but I was thinking of you ," he said, and instantly regretted it, afraid that it might not have sounded as affectionate as he had wished.
She was originally trained to be a seeing eye dog, but failed the exam because she was too affectionate.
In his letters, Marcus makes frequent and affectionate reference to her ; he was grateful that, " although she was fated to die young, yet she spent her last years with me ".
Accordingly, parents attempted to check their affectionate feelings toward a disobedient child, at least after the child was about two years old, in order to break his or her will.
After the death of Sergei's mother, his father married Elena Valerianovna Panaeva, an artistic young woman who was on very affectionate terms with her stepson and was a strong influence on him.
More was an affectionate father who wrote letters to his children whenever he was away on legal or government business, and encouraged them to write to him often.
His marriage to Matilda appears to have been quite affectionate, and there are no signs that he was unfaithful to her – unusual in a medieval monarch.
In this, an affectionate marriage and the ability to keep the threat from over the channel at bay, was seen as a happy coincidence.
Henry Watkins, who was an affectionate stepfather.
In public, Alexandra was dignified and charming ; in private, affectionate and jolly.
Crawley notes that it was " very significant of the affectionate element in religion " to give so important a part to the kiss as part of its ritual.
A legacy of RWT was the creation, with Innes, of the Rutles, an affectionate parody of the Beatles.
Bernier blames the disasters on others while praising the king who was kindly, affectionate, handsome, and well versed in mathematics and science.
From his children, Boyle expected obedience, although as an affectionate father he was more forgiving of opposition from them than from political enemies.
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Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.
Johnson was trying to grab the wheel, though the swerve of the truck was throwing him away from it.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.
Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.
It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.
The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.
But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;
This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.
He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.
The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.
Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.
A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.
With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.
Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.
I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.
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But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.
This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.
this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.
Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.
His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.
His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.
Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.
Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.
With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.
But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.
Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.
The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.
It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.
It was often re-enacted in less wild form at the Wednesday night prayer meeting.
When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.
Rector was often curious ; ;
At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.
He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.
Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.
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