affection.

He has always spoiled everything human he's touched with what he calls affection.

The Turquoise Mask Whitney, Phyllis A. 1973

His father and mother had both died while he was still a child, and, as if to make up for his long relentlessness, the grandfather had taken the boy to his own house and had cared for him with what he called affection.

Brewster`s Millions 1902

His father and mother had both died while he was still a child, and, as if to make up for his long relentlessness, the grandfather had taken the boy to his own house and had cared for him with what he called affection.

Brewster's Millions George Barr McCutcheon 1897

And you have to be wise enough to know the difference between heart-palpitating desire - and calm, long-term affection.

found while packing 2004

And you have to be wise enough to know the difference between heart-palpitating desire - and calm, long-term affection.

poopypants 2004

Inebriation, if not the wisest way to console and repress, is at least an opportune way to live with the knowledge that it is impossible to win affection.

'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

And yet, though invariably happiest elsewhere, there is within me a feeling for Old Salem, which, in lack of a better phrase, I must be content to call affection.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

And yet, though invariably happiest elsewhere, there is within me a feeling for Old Salem, which, in lack of a better phrase, I must be content to call affection.

The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter” 1917

And yet, though invariably happiest elsewhere, there is within me a feeling for old Salem, which, in lack of a better phrase, I must be content to call affection.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

And yet, though invariably happiest elsewhere, there is within me a feeling for old Salem, which, in lack of a better phrase, I must be content to call affection.

Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892