Now and then familiarity was pushed too far, and would effervesce into a brawl, and a "rough and tumble" fight; but it all ended in cordial reconciliation and maudlinendearment.

To whom should I apply that name ofendearment? Where, too, could I find you?

This lastendearment was tender as in youth, as in times when hearts were warm - life happy.

She could not admit even to herself that she loved him, and yet she had permitted him to apply to her that term ofendearment and possession to which a Barsoomian maid should turn deaf ears when voiced by other lips than those of her husband or fiance--"my princess."

Living in such close relations, to meet meant to fall intoendearment; flesh and blood could not resist it; and, having arrived at no conclusion as to the issue of such a tendency, he decided to hold aloof for the present from occupations in which they would be mutually engaged.

She had been wont to call me her Virginian as a term ofendearment, for she knew that I loved the sound of that beautiful name, made a thousand times more beautiful and hallowed by her dear lips, and as I heard it again after all those long years my eyes became dimmed with tears and my voice choked with emotion.

'Dear Emily,' and 'Yours affectionately'--these conventional phrases, were the only phrases ofendearment which they contained.

In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces andendearments of the harem.

The idea that at the first moment of receiving the news of his son's intentions had occurred to him in jest- that if Andrew got married he himself would marry Bourienne- had evidently pleased him, and latterly he had persistently, and as it seemed to Princess Mary merely to offend her, shown specialendearments to the companion and expressed his dissatisfaction with his daughter by demonstrations of love of Bourienne.

Mad with exultation I shouted--I MUST have shouted, "He sees, he sees: he will understand!" Then, controlling myself, I moved forward, smiling and consciously beautiful, to offer myself to his arms, to comfort him withendearments, and, with my son's hand in mine, to speak words that should restore the broken bonds between the living and the dead.

In the day-time, fetched by a steward, Michael would be brought on deck to Del Mar, who was always surrounded by effusive young ladies and matrons who lavished caresses andendearments upon Michael.

Two of them clung about her white skirts, the third she took from its nurse and with a thousandendearments bore it along in her own fond, encircling arms.