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  • We did not express the love we cherished for each other like girls at a boarding-school, by hugging and kissing, and 'dearing' and

    Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark Charles Bruce

  • I'm "dear dearing" Suzanne just because I'm not buying into her arguments.

    X vrs Y Steven Barnes 2008

  • But he was thought to be a very dearing father and father to the three girls and a very entertaining man.

    Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House 2001

  • Thank God there is a new programmer who does a dearing effort with the LVC to fill the hole left by Het Paard in The Hague.

    FallNews 1999

  • Instantly, in the emptiness of the landscape, a cry arose whose shrillness pierced the still air like a sharp arrow flying straight to the very heart of the land; and, as if by enchantment, streams of human beings -- of naked human beings -- with spears in their hands, with bows, with shields, with wild glances and savage movements, were poured into the dearing by the dark-faced and pensive forest.

    Heart of Darkness 1960

  • Memory, in point of fact, is impeded by the body: even as things are, addition often brings forgetfulness; with thinning and dearing away, memory will often revive.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • "Oh, you went about praising everything, and screaming and shouting, and my-dearing and my-childing her, and patronizing --"

    A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1878

  • "Oh don't come dearing me, and bringing me all this trouble."

    Trial and Triumph Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1868

  • Yahoo Search Pad lets you keep track of pages uncovered dearing what Yahoo technology determines is a research session.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • He fayrs to understand the sort of devirs with which he is dearing, and he apparentry has not the srightest idea of what the Rist O 'Shame is.

    The Aristocrats 2009

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