dotings

Doing so will bring Lucille and Wild Water Charley, "a strapping young giant," together, for she dotes on shirred eggs and Wild Water has more money than sense when it comes to Lucille's dotings.

“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008

And that his annoyingly infirm mother required weekly filial and financial assistance was something he would never consider ending, despite her plaintive dotings that dominated their Saturday breakfasts and daily phone conversations.

Steven Weber: For My Father 10/3/25 - 3/6/87 2009

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Scripture been vitiated, but the faith has been almost subverted, and the door opened to many foolish dotings.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

Therefore, unless we are willing to be involved in absurd dotings, it is necessary that the word should precede us like a lamp; so that his power and his will may be conjoined by an inseparable bond.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

Perhaps they are only idle fancies, the dotings of an over-anxious father.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

The fairest, topmost blossom on the family tree had set itself to swaying in the gentle breezes of sentiment, regardless of the dotings of the gnarled old root, of the indifference of the sturdy trunk, of the solicitous rustlings of the foliage.

Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

Let no reasonable man delude himself with the notion that God has no weapons more formidable than the dotings of astrology, till he has taken

Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857

Targum on the Song of Solomon; where the curious reader can satisfy himself as to the scientific value of such Pantheistic dotings.

Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855