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Sentence Examples Herod was frightened by the potential competition, for he brooked no opposition or competition for the affections of people's hearts. For some it is experienced as a powerful and specifiable moment, engaging the deepest affections. His mind, his understanding, his heart and affections, his will and volition are all corrupted. Elder flowers are a popular herbal treatment for all bronchial and pulmonary affections, scarlet fever, measles and other eruptive diseases. In the Preface to St Leon, Godwin expostulates upon his turn from a politics based on public discussion to one based on private affections. These affections are leaving the world like the colors of extinct birds, like the songs of a dead language. They will say things to try and worm their way into the affections of young people and to prey upon them. I can really relate to the title character, as I know what it's like to carry a torch for someone and have those affections go unrequited. Never before had it entered the mind of any poet thus to apotheosize the lady of his affections. A young man who resorts to a love philter may simply want his beloved to return his affections. And chief among the affections of British biscuit lovers is the custard cream, which last year was voted the nation's favourite. Elder flowers are a popular herbal treatment for all bronchial and pulmonary affections. You can be very extravagant in both your affections and your finances, finding it difficult to manage both. He had fallen in love, Mary's beauty and her assent to his affections spinning him like a top. He twice proposed marriage to Maud Gonne, and when she refused him he transferred his affections to her teenage daughter. That modest discovery, with the consequent madness of incessant composition, alienated my affections from the hospital. Dr. Chapin never attempted in any way to alienate my affections from father. The waif seemed eager to get inside, but I didn't want to alienate her affections if she had a home. Austerity and sternness will alienate his affections, and severe words will sting him to the quick. Passions, or affections that include fear, hate, love, hope and so on, are not spiritual but bodily. Show More Sentences He remarks that the passions are also called affections or perturbations of the mind, as well as motions and affects. She disguises herself as her twin brother and is drawn into a hilariously tangled web of affections. He drove the baker's van, and was Ernie's rival for the widow's affections, offering her treacle tarts and hot meat pies. Many of these birds are lovingly restored, bespeaking the inordinate affections heaped upon them by proud owners. Smitten, Travis hopes to win Lola's affections by heading cross country with her in a traveling rock band as their number one roadie! He was always a lightweight in her affections, although the competition with Kathy gave him a great deal more importance than he deserved. It was an act of desperate frustration with a public he saw as wrongly withholding its affections. Kate does not feel comfortable granting amorous affections in such a public place as a street. This volume argued that true religion resides in the heart, or the seat of affections, emotions, and inclinations. The on-screen relationship seems to have cultivated some off-screen affections as well. But Rona the trouper quickly moved on, wheezing her way into the audience's affections. We were together for six years and I don't think anybody will replace him in my affections. Meanwhile Rolf is being grovellingly apologetic and attempting to brown-nose his way into my affections. Though summer may boast more blooms, the flower bulbs of spring hold a special place in our affections. Eva seems to be in love with Dizzi but he remains unmoved by her affections. With small blond curls gracing his head and bright blue eyes, Jake was the object of Nell's affections. But she has toyed with my affections once too often and I gave her a wide berth. We should not conclude that pity or other instinctual affections, or even rational self-love, are bad. Trey frowned, furrowed his brows and observed the object of his affections. Allied to the enforcement regime was a policy which, put simply, was an attempt to purchase Corsican affections with huge subsidies. Show More Sentences Cyanosis with shortness of breath is more frequent in pulmonary than cardiac affections. If the target of your affections returns your gaze for more than a second, chances are they're interested. When the centre forward was transferred, so were my affections, and I've had a soft spot for the Midlanders ever since. Having gate-crashed and disrupted an idyllic island community, he then proceeds to muscle in on the French girl, ousting her nice harmless boyfriend from her affections. While they have invariably been given warm and enthusiastic receptions, John O'Conor seems to occupy an extra special place in the affections of Sligo's classical music fans. He alone among the guests at a country inn does not vie for the affections of the proprietress Mirandolina, thus setting in motion her plan to humble him by seducing him. The young man, in his efforts to extricate the young woman from her problems, manages to alienate her affections while arousing the enmity of her powerful protector. Would-be knights in shining armour will be jousting for the affections of their lady-loves in tournaments harking back to the days of King Arthur. It was in that year that he wrote a set of poems anatomizing his despair over losing the battle to Maynard Keynes for the affections of their fellow apostle, Hobhouse. Surely this wasn't the cold-hearted harpy that had spurned my affections. Newly appointed ministers have always been the targets of inflated flattery from vested interests eager to gain an early place in their affections. And there are some genuinely transformational attempts, notably in transport, to spend the government's way back into the electorate's affections. Unbelief and jealousy of the divine favour freeze the affections, and, like the northern blast of approaching winter on the trees of the forest, detrude the heavenly juices of the soul. The decoction is used as a powerful sudorific, and in the form of a gargle for affections of the throat, also as an addition to odontalgic tincture. Having recently met a young Englishman of preternatural charm and physique, I surmised that after a day in the country together, I had managed to engender his affections. Both disciplines understood their purpose to be the evocation and presentation of intended affections, thereby to persuade and to edify the listener. She smiled, but she was an Angels fan and wasn't about to start encouraging an uppity little Yankees fan's affections, which only served to inflame him further. He was a bonafide stud, and gained the affections of an entire generation of Millennials. This story of coal miners who become coal-owners and rivals for the affections of La Dietrich is the purest and oldest ackamarackus. She brought suit against Margie under a seldom-used theory, the alienation of affections cause of action. Show More Sentences Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections. Aren't our affections hopelessly, buttheadedly riveted to the less worthy and the weak? He beat off stiff competition from a rival Rutland osprey to win the affections of an unringed female, thought to have come from Scotland. To what end are such paraenetical discourses? You may as soon remove Mount Caucasus as alter some men's affections. On a visit to Mr Rushworth's estate Sotherton, Henry deliberately plays with the affections of both Maria and Julia. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution. The strong points about him are his curiosity, his vitality, his eagerness, and the emotional fervour of his affections. But none of these unforgettable, heartswelling experiences have made me go home and urge the tenant of my affections to get busy making babies. MacDowell is unusually likeable as the prissy Francophobe object of his affections, too. The urning loves and deifies the male object of his affections, just as a man idealizes the woman he loves. In an alienation of affections claim, a plaintiff can recover from a third party who has deprived her of the affection of her spouse. Persons laboring under pulmonary affections appear to be less liable than others, though I have found softened tubercles in some cholerics. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux. A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections. Elizabeth was extremely jealous of his affections, even when she no longer meant to marry him herself. He never married, but his diary shows that he was not without affections, and more, for others. During this time, Byron pursued his Greek page, Lukas Chalandritsanos, with whom he had fallen madly in love, but the affections went unrequited. When she returned, Shelley fell madly in love with her, repeatedly threatening to commit suicide if she didn't return his affections. There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose. Show More Sentences A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the unusual diagnosis. The hours of the day often follow such a beginning like a wagging tail follows through the nosings and affections and fireside dreamings of a happy dog. A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people. With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability. Thus do our affections wheel about with an unconstant motion. During this period Wilson excelled in sport as well as academic subjects, and fell in love with Margaret Fletcher, who was the object of his affections for several years. Cases of lardaceous disease and some allied affections, with remarks. Theologies are parenetic insofar as they aim to shape and encourage, not only understanding but also desires, affections, emotions, and habits of practice. Arthralgia, rheumatoid affections, periostitis, enlarged glands, and papulo-vesicular syphilide of the back, are the forms of syphilis which have best yielded to this drug. Examples from Classical Literature It warreth in the soul; it abuseth your affections, to carry on the rebellion against heaven. In Sicily, when a young man is in love, he presents the object of his affections with a love apple. Beneath the car of this Juggernaut we must flout our judgments and crush our affections. In the spiritual world a variety and commixture of affections is distinctly perceived in sound. But he alienated the affections of his subjects and was deposed by the intervention of Annam. As the senses naturally belong to the body, and the desires and affections to the soul, so do the dogmata to the understanding. Gilfoyle's forgotten affections came back to life, expanding and efflorescent. This herb has long been a popular remedy in chronic pulmonary complaints, especially catarrh, and in uterine and liver affections. Remember what we said a little while ago, about fancy and spontaneous affections. But the time had passed when my affections and those of my master were akin. Her love affairs had left her with affections crushed and physically disabled. I have blighted and withered the affections of his heart to that extent that he is not sure of me. They refine the mind, they elevate views, they meliorate passions and keep alive affections. Slavery has no respect for the affections, as is evinced by the mercilessness with which she sunders every family tie. These persons have minor voices, make great use of chromatics in speaking, and their affections seem to be situated in the liver. He was hurt, irremediably hurt, he knew, in what stands in us for the affections. Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us. It has been asked, in what way do you suppose that the affections of a mother should operate to derange the members of the ftus? The last is employed as a sedative, refrigerant, and astringent wash, in various affections. She possessed not that confidence and contented reliance upon the idea of unalienable affections which characterise the wife. Show More Sentences Need I point out the change that ebriety produces in the moral and social affections? It is increased also by pain in rickets, and especially in some affections of the lungs. New ties, new affections, on the child's part, mean the enriching of the parent. Who could have thought that the law of entail could sway a mother's affections? Both of these affections are liable in about one-third of the cases to terminate in epithelioma. Surely it is much better to let their natural affections have time to expand. They are very useful in bilious affections and dyspepsia, and in all febrile, putrid, and inflammatory complaints. Caffeine has been found very useful in hemicrania and various nervous affections. The objector must mean, either, that these affections are unreasonable in themselves, or that they are misplaced in religion. Proceeding to its natural termination without complications or intercurrent affections, death finally occurs from exhaustion. The hard fibroma known as keloid is described with the affections of scars. And you've made a strong play for the fond affections of Lockwood's daughter? The manifold affections of sense are not simply aggregated in the individual, like the heroes in the Trojan horse. Yawning occurs in a most intractable form in meningeal affections, and in cerebral and cerebellar tumours. If we have been properly understood, typhous diseases are, above all, general febrile affections. Its hold on the affections of womankind has never been stronger than it is to-day. It is more especially when pericarditis complicates rheumatic polyarthritis that pulmonary affections occur. It is a quickener of the intellect, a purifier of the affections, and an instrument of heightening our spiritual aspirations. There were some tears in his eyes compounded of brandy and nerves and affections and remorses as he hurried into the street. The reader may consult the observations made on four of these affections in connection with the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Show More Sentences I mention convulsive attacks and enuresis nocturna, as pathological affections of her childhood which belong to my theme. Similar phenomena occur even in the case of other than exudative affections of the skin. Ophorectomy signifies the removal through an abdominal incision of an ovary and fallopian tube for affections mainly inflammatory. They are liberalists, without any serious convictions, and cosmopolites without any home affections. The ardency of her affections and the determinate character of her mind were well known to her royal relatives. Pulmonary affections in form of pleuritis, pneumonia, or bronchitis are common complications of rheumatic fever. He was in love, but the idol of his affections belonged to an atheistical family. It is useful also locally in rheumatic affections as a resolvent and anodyne, in acne, and as a parasiticide. The like affections, natural and adventitious, in all such things do happen. Again, the adynamia of malarial attacks is generally ascribable to some cause not essential to those affections. A third class within this category is that of affective qualities and affections. What we find to be praiseworthy and blameworthy is a revelation of our own affections. It has also given good results as a gargle in affections of the pharynx and buccal cavity. In a general way, inflammation and other affections of bursae and thecae are considered very similar to like affections of joints. It is used in dyeing, and has been recommended in dyspepsia, calculous affections, and chronic diarrha. The Gravel Root has long had some reputation in urinary difficulties, and even in calculous affections. Almost all catarrhal affections of the respiratory organs are due to chills. That his affections were changeable, if intense, was admitted by the composer himself. In whooping cough, and other pulmonic affections, it proves beneficial in the form of syrup. The vapour was very deleterious to those having any tendency to pulmonic affections. Show More Sentences Without these affections of the osseous system the diagnosis of rachitis is not complete. But in case they are not influenced by internal affections, which conjoin minds, the bonds of matrimony are loosed in the house. His conjugality is large and he will center all his affections on one beloved object. For external use in neuralgic and rheumatic affections, as a substitute for solution of Delphinia. Paul was not only the depositary of the divine counsels, but also of divine affections. Let not his natural affections be as the snare of the fowler unto his feet. For this he has deservedly a place in the heart and affections of every son of Ireland. Family affections stand out so desirably and vivid, like meadows green after rain. Nor is it improbable that her affections had been bestowed upon her despoiler. Dr Paris, who highly recommends it in pulmonary affections, employs double the above proportion of sal ammoniac. What bodes this rare conjunction and disjunction of man and wife and of old affections? Carbonate of potassa is thought to be preferable to carbonate of soda, when the above affections occur in scorbutic habits. At one time Tacamahaca enjoyed a high reputation as an internal remedy for urinary and scorbutic affections. The old Greek gods had favorites upon whom they lavished their affections. It can beget bigotry, breed hypocrisy or hebetate affections. She did not mean to have her own affections entangled again, and it would be incumbent on her to avoid any encouragement of his. He, once the heir to such fortunes, the darling of such affections! Nor had Hepzibah ever any hardihood, except what came from the very warmest nook in her affections. In our opinion, moreover, it is contraindicated in convulsive affections. They did not supplant the pastorals of Pope in my affections, and they were never the grand passion with me that Pope's poems had been. Show More Sentences Micawber took an early opportunity, after that, of hinting, with the utmost delicacy and ceremony, at the state of MY affections. Her smile, too, was of so winning and gentle a nature, as to announce a disposition pregnant with all the affections. To captivate the affections was a secondary use of the phrase. Her affections may be bestowed where they shall meet no requital. In like manner there are affective qualities and affections of the soul. Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object. But it ready is doubly and trebly hard to have crowds and multitudes of people turning up after him, to take Ladybird's affections away from me. Most diphtheritic affections of the ear, however, are secondary. It is of much value as a remedy for neuralgic affections of the womb. Others extended the value of the moxa beyond these affections. It would be an ill return to tamper lightly, and without due consideration, with this young lady's affections. One cannot tear up at once the deep-rooted affections of years. The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings, must have borne the same general proportion to our own. Berenice gained the affections of Ptolemy, and at length he married her. She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit. As a diaphoretic, in inflammatory affections and rheumatism. It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction. The dietetic management of the two affections should be the same. Now the common affections of a lineate are to bee Angled and Figured. Like many other lingual affections, this is often unilateral. Show More Sentences While I was still on my sickbed, he had won Miss Blanchard's affections. The ordinary diseases are catarrhal affections and typhoid fever. Peeping over the hedge, he saw the queen of his affections picking flowers in her garden. At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation. Or do you complain because your wife has shown the proper spirit of a woman, and punished the villain who trifled with her affections? He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred. That temper with which a man is born and which has its origin in certain deep-seated affections is called a quality. It has been used to secure immunity from syphilitic affections. Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? It is a known fact in human nature, that its affections are commonly weak in proportion to the distance or diffusiveness of the object. It was their dirge over their buried affections and over the vanity of earthly desires. Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections. By actuating our wills to love, and holy desire, and other affections. Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. In the old days a knight would joust for the love of a ladye, risking physical injury rather than permit others to rival him in her affections. His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible. A wholesome and useful drink in cutaneous and rheumatic affections. Go when you will, you find a gravel-train from Marseilles arriving to supply the deficiencies caused by memento-cabbaging vandals whose affections have miscarried. Yet in spite of the precautions they take to keep this hour for private intimacies and affections, a good many great and little people manage to infringe upon it. On the first day when his father formally gave him the hint that he was to place his affections at Miss Swartz's feet, George temporised with the old gentleman. Show More Sentences She had entered the house, feeling a jealousy of Miss Pink, as her predecessor in Isabel's affections, and as the natural protectress of the girl under existing circumstances. He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously. In order to appreciate the sufferings of the negroes sold south, it must be remembered that all the instinctive affections of that race are peculiarly strong. They had put him behind bars, as if he had been a wild beast, a thing without sense or reason, without rights, without affections, without feelings. Bird-like in her love of individual freedom, the last woman in the world to be bullied in her affections, she keenly appreciated the niceness of his attitude. The coaches who are the objects of the writers' affections range from household names to total unknowns, from football to basketball to wrestling and more. His wicked, bloodshot eyes and broad nose, his ample mouth and great fighting fangs only enhanced the claim of this Adonis of the forest upon the affections of his shes. Can you tell me, this last time, that you feel quite, quite sure, no new affections of mine, and no new duties of mine, will ever interpose between us? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of affections? Words that rhyme with affections What is the adverb for affections? What is the adjective for affections? What is the noun for affections? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words affectionately affectionate affectional affection affectingly affecting affective affectively affectivity affectless affects affect the outcome 10-letter Words Starting With a af aff affe affec affect affecti affectio affection