"affection" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He is known for his fatherly affection toward his proteges.
- How innocently had she believed in the fatherly affection of the squire!
- He smiled, the picture of fatherly affection.
- He glanced at his travelling companion with fatherly affection.
- His work focused often on what he found vulgar or ridiculous about Cuban life, but was written with a fatherly affection.
- Jones meets a little girl in a park who he shows a fatherly affection for, however her existence is eerie.
- Still, he felt a certain fatherly affection for her.
- The old seaman Dansker, with fatherly affection, even calls him "baby."
- Try to substitute fatherly affection and reason for the anger of an exhausted, spent man- It was too late.
- Stromlo patted her shoulder with a not quite fatherly affection.
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