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  • Your correspondence, Dearest, is one of the happiest privileges I enjoy; it is the source to me

    Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,Febrary 14, 1857 2008

  • She must always have felt irritated when he dared to address her as "Dearest" -- he, the little

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • And what a comical phrase is hers when she writes to her "Dearest" -- "I take time by the _pig-tail_ and write at night, after post-hours" -- that growling, surly "dearest," of whom she said, "The amount of bile that he brings home is awfully grand."

    The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Kate Sanborn 1878

  • t less about what kind of jewelry Mommy Dearest is wearing.

    Kate Gosselin interview bingo: Get ready for another cliche-fest | EW.com 2009

  • Well what they didn't tell you was that those very letters are available in toto from your friends at HUP, in a brand-new edition titled My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams.

    Harvard University Press Publicity Blog : 2008

  • Well what they didn't tell you was that those very letters are available in toto from your friends at HUP, in a brand-new edition titled My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams.

    "At least as smart as James Madison" 2008

  • 'Dearest, that is what I came down to speak about.

    Alice Sit-By-The-Fire 1898

  • "Dearest" -- her voice took sudden strength -- "will you forgive me?

    The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

  • "Dearest" -- he often called her "Dearest," and his voice had a wonderful sound in the darkness; it was caress and strength, and it seemed to speak to her of things they knew which I did not -- "we have vowed to each other that we WILL believe there is no reason for The Fear.

    The White People Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • Letters from Minnett to White referred to him as "Dearest"and "Darling", although she denied having done so in court.

    Cora Minnett Steve 2009

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