affection's

If someone is clinging to someone else's arm in a public place, please consider that she may not be doing it for affection's sake, and do not attempt to bully her into letting go.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2008

Yea, mortal men should pledge themselves to moderate friendships only, not to such as reach the very heart's core; affection's ties should be light upon them to let them slip or draw them tight.

Hippolytus 2008

Yea, mortal men should pledge themselves to moderate friendships only, not to such as reach the very heart's core; affection's ties should be light upon them to let them slip or draw them tight.

Hippolytus 2008

But wha, by affection's chart, reigns in auld Scotland's heart --

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

A spot for which affection's tear flows freely from its fountain.

Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock

Yes, that would be the prettiest spot; and for old affection's sake the thing should be done properly if she came back,

Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley

Pass we over that subduing scene, in which Henry assisted George to sever long ringlets, and rob the cold finger, of affection's dearest pledge.

A Love Story A Bushman

No deep affections are disquieted, no holy wedlock bands are snapped asunder -- for affection's depth and wedded faith are not of the growth of that soil.

English literary criticism Various

Long mayest thou grace it with affection's smiles,

Poems (1828) Thomas Gent

One child habiting earth dared to lift eyes into the awful arch of air, wherein are laid the foundation-stones of the crystalline wall, and, beholding drops of Infinite Love, garnered one, and, walking forth with it in her heart, went into the church-yard, -- a regret arising that the graves that held the columns fallen from the family-corridor had found so little of place within affection's realm.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various