doatingly

Lord! how that Jack Priest did curry favour with our governor and the two young ladies; and he curried, and curried, till he had got himself into favour with the governor, and more especially with the two young ladies, of whom their father was doatingly fond.

Lavengro 2004

I am doatingly fond of music — passionately fond; — and my friends say I am not entirely devoid of taste; but as to any thing else, upon my honour my performance is mediocre to the last degree.

Emma 2004

I am doatingly fond of music -- passionately fond; -- and my friends say I am not entirely devoid of taste; but as to any thing else, upon my honour my performance is mediocre to the last degree.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

Ganguernet had singled out a lady of some thirty years, rather fantastic in her manners and appearance, who was doatingly fond of Parisian elegance, and who preferred the pale face of a well-looking youth of rather shallow intellect, to the coarse, purple visage of Ganguernet.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

Dear kind Wilson is doatingly fond of the child, and sometimes gives it as her serious opinion that 'there never _was_ such

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

Dear kind Wilson is doatingly fond of the child, and sometimes gives it as her serious opinion that 'there never was such a child before.'

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

Miss Bradwardine then gave Waverley to understand, that this poor simpleton was doatingly fond of music, deeply affected by that which was melancholy, and transported into extravagant gaiety by light and lively airs.

The Waverley 1877

The idea drew him to picture her doatingly in her young matronly bloom ten years after marriage: without a touch of age, matronly wise, womanly sweet: perhaps with a couple of little ones to love, never having known the love of a man.

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

The idea drew him to picture her doatingly in her young matronly bloom ten years after marriage: without a touch of age, matronly wise, womanly sweet: perhaps with a couple of little ones to love, never having known the love of a man.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

On the other hand, Tom seemed so completely to identify himself with the boys and their pursuits, that it never occurred to their father and mother, who were doatingly fond of them, that, after all, they might not be the only attraction.

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859