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  • Carrying only the iPhone, listening to a playlist I call "Fondness," I take this photo at the top of the hill before darkness sets in:

    Archive 2007-08-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Art and Nature, which does not work in the Imagination with that Warmth and Violence as the Beauty that appears in our proper Species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret Delight, and a kind of Fondness for the Places or Objects in which we discover it.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • After our Nuptials, we conversed together very familiarly in the same House; but the Restraints we were generally under, and the Interviews we had, being stolen and interrupted, made our Behaviour to each other have rather the impatient Fondness which is visible in Lovers, than the regular and gratified Affection which is to be observed in Man and Wife.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Fondness for the Confederacy is fondness for White supremacy, and anyone who would question that is an apologist for White supremacy.

    Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery 2010

  • Robin at A Fondness for Reading begins her post with, "Sissy Spacek narrated the audio book version of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I think it's the most beautiful book I've ever listened to."

    Archive 2007-06-01 ____Maggie 2007

  • Robin at A Fondness for Reading begins her post with, "Sissy Spacek narrated the audio book version of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I think it's the most beautiful book I've ever listened to."

    The Bird is the Word! ____Maggie 2007

  • Fondness for the Sabbath lights and the blessing over them also reflected on the lights of festivals and the Day of Atonement.

    Observance of Mitzvot: Custom and Halakhah. 2009

  • Hosted by my friend Chris at Stuff Dreams are Made On and Robin at A Fondness for Reading, this challenge seemed like a nice way to honor Dewey, whose loss was felt across the blogging world last month.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Stephanie 2009

  • Hosted by my friend Chris at Stuff Dreams are Made On and Robin at A Fondness for Reading, this challenge seemed like a nice way to honor Dewey, whose loss was felt across the blogging world last month.

    Challenges for the New Year Stephanie 2009

  • Sometimes I busied my self with thinking what I should say to his Father, whom I concluded he would bring along with him: I said and unsaid a thousand Things; this speech I fear'd betray'd too much Fondness, that, too little Kindness; this seem'd too submiffive to the Son, that not respectful enough to the Father; now I study'd what Excuse to make to my

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

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