"Adoring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the outskirts of the village and paused beneath the wide-spreading branches of a great oak tree. The wind, sighing through the branches, seemed to the liberty-adoring Wadsworth ...
— The Witch of Salem - or Credulity Run Mad • John R. Musick
... hug him. Instead she laughed. "It was time to cut it," she said. Her tone was cool, but her eyes were adoring. ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... looked up to greet him with an eagerness from which she vainly sought to banish pride. He was her only child, her all; and he was sufficiently good to look upon, clever enough to pass muster in a crowd. To her adoring eyes, however, he was a mingling of an Adonis with a Socrates. And she herself, by encouragement and admonition and self-denying toil, had helped to make him what he was. Small wonder that her pride in him could ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... her with adoring attention. They looked genteel. They looked ironed-out. They coughed politely, and crossed their legs with quietness, and in expensive linen handkerchiefs they blew their noses with a delicacy altogether ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... Julia put her head over Mrs. Dodd's shoulder, not to be seen; and, clasping her tight, murmured scarce above a whisper, "I don't know how much I love him. When he came in at that party I felt his slave—his unfaithful adoring slave; if he had ordered me to sing Aileen Aroon, I should have obeyed; if he had commanded me to take his hand and leave the room, I think I should have obeyed. His face is always before me as plain as life; it used to come to me bright and loving; now it is ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
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