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Sentences ending with liking

Perhaps his manly way did win her liking. [5]
I am glad to know you like the "Prince and the Pauper" so well and I believe with you that the dream is good evidence of that liking. [5]
I knew now that there was one creature that loved me, and that one repaid all that I felt for him, all that I was never weary of doing for him with affectionate liking. [10]
Say that she seemed fond of him, as she might be were he her nephew,--one for whom she had a special liking. [6]
There were also other books-histories, biographies of distinguished people, travels in far lands, poems, especially those of Byron, Scott and Shelley and Moore, which she eagerly absorbed, and appropriated therefrom what was to her liking. [5]
There are persons I meet occasionally who are too intelligent by half for my liking. [6]
A liturgy they have, to be sure, which does not scruple to borrow from the time-honored manuals of devotion, but also does not hesitate to change its expressions to its own liking. [6]
They capsized the fat, protesting browsterwife over her own stool, and were pulling Jamie's coat from his back, when I began to suspect that a fight was not to the sniveller's liking. [9]
It's true this engagement never was much to my liking. [2]
The army will be withdrawn so soon as such State government can dispense with its presence; and the people of the State can then, upon the old constitutional terms, govern themselves to their own liking. [7]

More example sentences with the word liking in them

So hold up your head, and whatever liking you may have in your heart for the traitor, tear it out and trample on it. [10]
Everybody liked the young fellow, for how could they help liking one of such engaging manners and large fortune? [5]
I wish he wouldn't persist in liking us so; I can't think why he keeps it up. [5]
But her answer would assuredly have been "no," if she had had the smallest feeling of liking for the Emperor's favorite; but she bore the image of another in her heart, and did not even perceive that Antinous was beautiful. [10]
I was once worthy of men's liking, perhaps, and I had good comrades; but that is all over. [11]
She was indignant with the Brandon scrupulousness; it chafed her.. Was this simply because she loved her husband, or was this indignation a little due also to her liking for the world which so fell in with her inclinations? [4]
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him. [2]
They had long whispered it around among each other that she had a liking for the master; but there were too many of them of whom something like this could be said, to make it very remarkable. [6]
It was his way to force things to his liking, if possible; and he wanted to hear about the woman--why, he did not ask himself. [11]
At times he was not easy to please, but if he took a liking, he was for joking at once. [11]
I more unreservedly urge him to go there, because we did not go, and we should feel no responsibility for his liking or disliking. [4]
Well, he blew up, but I can't help liking him. [9]
It is not true that civilization or cultivation has bred out of the world the liking for a story. [4]
This is not to the liking of the Intendant, who loves not my father because he is such a friend of our cousin the Governor. [11]
Mrs. Larrabbee's temptation to be witty at the expense of those for whom she had no liking had led Hodder to discount the sketch. [9]
At the same time, the unaccountable liking I had for the man stirred to life. [9]
Then, slowly, as though liking to linger over them, he repeated the words of the Scarlet Hunter: "'O son of man, behold! [11]
The influence of this poet is plain to every reader in some of Emerson's poems, and Charles' liking for him was very probably caught from Waldo. [6]
I considered many things, while listening to your story, and on account of my liking for you I will tell you this. [10]
Those who go there year after year converse a great deal about their liking for it, and think the time well spent in persuading new arrivals to take certain walks and drives. [4]
The truth is the Young Doctor was somewhat of an expert in human nature, and he deeply wanted to know the history of this wandering habitant, because he had a great compassionate liking for him. [11]
He had also the consolation of liking his work, and of getting an instant grasp of it that grew constantly firmer and closer. [8]
But, to take the case away from ordinary examples, in which habit and a thousand circumstances influence liking, what is it that determines the world upon a personal regard for authors whom it has never seen? [4]
Nobody could know the "Admiral" without liking him; and in a sudden and dire emergency I think no friend of his would know which to choose--to be cursed by him or prayed for by a less efficient person. [5]
He was so shrewd, so keen, so full of practical sense, and so good-humored as long as things went on to his liking, that few could resist his fascination. [6]
Pierre made no show of liking her, and thought, at first, that hers was a passing fancy. [11]
I need not say that I felt a strange liking for Monsieur de St. Gre. [9]
Is not the popular liking for him somewhat independent of his writings? [4]
The matter of personal liking and attachment is a good deal due to the mere fortune of association. [4]
It is all over between him and me, and I will submit humbly; but at the same time I cannot help thinking that when he came home he thought me pretty and attractive, and had a real fancy and liking for me. [10]
But somehow the old chap had taken a liking to me.--No, of course you couldn't understand that. [11]
He was one of those, who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. [2]
There is an odd liking for the simple among these people. [4]
His classmates could not help liking him; as to loving him, none of them would have thought of that. [6]
But Zeno has no liking for this niece. [10]
And yet I never wavered in my liking to the more brilliant and wayward of the two. [9]
As surely as my name is Euergetes my uncle Antiochus was right in liking to mix among the populace. [10]
Horapollo had been much attracted by the young physician's wide culture and earnest studiousness; he had conceived a warm liking for him, the warmest perhaps that he had ever felt for any fellow-human since the death of his own family. [10]
I had been meeting him every day at the Club and liking him better and better all the time. [5]
You will then meet with it again, and if you still find it to your liking, you will be heartily welcome any evening. [10]
She seems to me a little distant in her manners and I have respected her pretty evident liking for keeping mostly to herself. [6]
Brush and I--I may as well be plain about it, Mr. Crewe--have taken a liking to you. [9]
And the young man would have been surprised and flattered if he had known how much her indulgence of him in this talk was due to her genuine liking for him. [4]
Nobody can help liking the creature, he means so well--but I do dread to come across him again; he's bound to set us all crazy, of coarse. [5]
They had a liking for the Colonel, but still they had some idea of hanging him, as a sort of make-shift that might answer, after a fashion, in place of more satisfactory game. [5]
She had no liking for Gorgo or her grandmother; and when she had caught up to Medius, quite out of breath, she positively refused the old lady's hospitality. [10]
He did not know,--but sometimes thought that this nephew of his might take a serious liking to Elsie. [6]
And Sir John kept his word, liking me better from that day forth, and coming now and again to see me at the school,--though he was much abroad in France--giving many a pound to my Lightfoots, who were no worse soldiers for that. [11]
True criticism, then, is not a matter of caprice or of individual liking or disliking, nor of conformity to a prevailing and generally temporary popular judgment. [4]
He was sincere in his liking for the soured, bereaved sovereign, forced to endure alliance with a Government he loathed. [11]
Bob decided that his liking for Jethro had not diminished, but rather increased; he admired Jethro for the advice he had given, although he did not mean to take it. [9]
She had showed her liking for him plainly enough yesterday when they parted. [10]
She could not help liking Janet Duncan, mere flesh and blood not being proof against such compliments. [9]
But you can't help liking George. [9]
No one who heard him relate this story could help liking him. [10]
But after Hartmann had talked and read aloud to her and her daughter in his charming way, she said to me, "What vexes me is that in my old age I can't help liking such a red Democrat. [10]
Her uncle Malachi had seemed to have a strong liking for her at one time, but of late years his delusions had gained upon him, and under their influence he seemed to regard her as an encumbrance and an extravagance. [6]
Incidentally my father had condemned Cousin Robert's wholesale grocery business as a refuge of the lesser of intellect that could not achieve the professions,--an inference not calculated to stir my ambition and liking for it at the start. [9]
They had not had an opportunity to visit at his place "up in the country" yet, but the Colonel often dined with them, and in confidence, confided to them his projects, and seemed to take a great liking to them, especially to his friend Harry. [5]
But the conviction grew upon me that Maude had no real liking for the social side of life, that she acquiesced in it only on my account. [9]
He took a great liking to this Rev. [5]
But if you go on as you have begun I shall begin to consider how I may make use of his influence and of his liking for me, on the shores of the Tiber. [10]
Three of these friends owned, by a singular chance, weekly newspapers, and having conceived a liking as well as an admiration for him, began to say pleasant things about him in their columns--which Mr. Crewe (always thoughtful) sent to other friends of his. [9]
It was fortunate for Philip that Miss McDonald took a liking to him. [4]
He was born for a philosopher,--so I read his horoscope,--but he has a great liking for poetry and can write well in verse. [6]
For the honest first mate I had a great liking, and was touched beyond speech when he enjoined me to keep his shore suit as long as I had want of it. [9]
Tikhon, who at first did rough work, laying campfires, fetching water, flaying dead horses, and so on, soon showed a great liking and aptitude for partisan warfare. [2]
She knew how faithfully he served her Charles, and for that reason she could not help liking him already. [10]
I was awfully disappointed--and yet I couldn't help liking him, he was so honest. [9]
Like his friend Carlyle and like Tennyson, Emerson had a liking for a whiff of tobacco-smoke:-- "When alone," he said, "he rarely cared to finish a whole cigar. [6]
And yet I can't help liking Whipple. [9]
After all, you cannot help liking Mandeville. [4]
He had had before a huge liking for Tom. [9]
You never saw beautiful Rose Varcoe, who, liking two men, chose the one who was handsome and brilliant, and whom the world called a genius. [11]
There seems to be something in some persons that wins them liking, special or general, independent almost of what they do or say. [4]
There seems to be more disposition of personal liking to Thackeray than to Dickens, now both are dead,--a result that would hardly have been predicted when the world was crying over Little Nell, or agreeing to hate Becky Sharp. [4]
Mr. Ballou reconnoitred awhile, and not liking the prospect, set out alone for Humboldt. [5]
And I wondered at the readiness with which he had read her character, liking him all the better. [9]
The summer dwellers at the Pier talk a good deal about liking it better than Newport; it is less artificial and more restful. [4]
People hire houses as they would a masquerade costume, liking, sometimes, to appear for a year in a little fictitious stone-front splendor above their means. [4]
No name of antiquity is better known, and yet I fancy he does not awaken the same kind of popular liking that Socrates does. [4]
But she's young, and she has had a liking for you, and if you manage it well there's no telling. [6]
She is quick-tempered, and she fancies she has reasons for not liking you. [11]
Feeling trouble ahead, and liking the young man and his brother Elder, Luke Claridge, John Fairley sought now to take the case into his own hands. [11]
Besides, it stimulates an unnatural appetite, a liking for the striking, the brilliant, the sensational only; for our selections from current literature are, usually the "plums"; and plums are not a wholesome-diet for anybody. [4]
When I am alone, I stroll about under the heavily-laden trees, and pick up the largest, where they lie thickly on the ground, liking to hold them in my hand and feel the agreeable weight, even when I can carry away no more. [4]
Yes, I'm all admiration for him, on account of his character, and liking naturally follows admiration, you know. [5]
He was not above the weakness of liking the comradeship of a woman of whom he was not afraid, a woman to whom he could say anything, a woman who could make allowances. [4]
She was also a woman, and that De la Foret should flaunt his devotion to another woman was little to her liking. [11]
Swedenborgians: liking for a paper of Carlyle's, 78; Reed's essay, 80; spiritual influx, 412. [6]
He spoke with a new fire when she led him that way, albeit she suspected that some of the fuel was derived from the revelation that she shared his liking for books. [9]
I have taken a liking to the abominable place, and every time I get ready to leave, I put it off a day or so, from some unaccountable cause. [5]
I always had a liking for you, sir, and bechune you and me it was that divil O'Meara what made all the trouble. [9]
He had conceived a liking for me, reciprocated on my part; the more so, because I knew that behind his blunt exterior there was a warm and manly heart. [11]
Billy Goat was a gentleman, after his kind, and he liked Sergeant Foyle with a great liking. [11]

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