Adjective : doting parents. From Dictionary.com.
Idly he reached out to let Jeran's fist curl around his fingers, his expression dotingly tender for an omnipotent Prime-elect. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowan]
“Have you noticed what beautiful eyes Adolf has?” she replied dotingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
Her father, who has but two children besides herself, being dotingly fond of her. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
This rose lover is heading back outside to my gardens…dotingly waiting for the first rose buds to bloom here. From Wordnik.com. [choper - French Word-A-Day] Reference
A resource of such scope would be dotingly maintained -- and fiercely protected against any would-be "hackers.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
This rose lover is heading back outside to my gardens … dotingly waiting for the first rose buds to bloom here. From Wordnik.com. [choper - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Thus saying, Mr. McArthur finishes his humble supper, kisses and fondles his daughter, whom he dotingly loves, and retires for the night. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Since Saturninus would have extracted the greater percentage of what was dotingly presented to his hero, the original tally must have been enormous. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
One was of Penelope's head six inches from Thorne the Horn's fly as she gazed dotingly up at him with her breasts peeping out of her new designer suit. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
Lord Luxellian was dotingly fond of the children; rather indifferent towards his wife, since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
A publisher has expressed interest in my forthcoming manuscript on alien intelligence I've been dotingly referring to it as a "unified theory of cybernetics and ufology". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
"You are so dotingly fond of your daughter!" said the Major with a leer. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
Indeed, a poet hath the same happiness with a man who is dotingly fond of an ugly woman. From Wordnik.com. [A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2] Reference
She seemed to have no existence but in me and in our little boy, of whom she was dotingly fond. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
They were dotingly fond of their idols, were inflamed with them, as those that burn in unlawful unnatural lusts. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
In the first series, 'Birdy,' the model's makeup is matched perfectly to the pet bird that sits dotingly on her shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends] Reference
•Where sleeps: On his enormous dog bed that his owners so dotingly drag to and from various rooms around the house daily. From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference
Ludovico was dotingly fond of his bride, Marcelia, and his love was amply returned; but during his absence in the camp, he left. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
There was a king and queen who were dotingly fond of their only son, notwithstanding that he was equally deformed in mind and person. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew] Reference
THERE were a king and queen who were dotingly fond of their only son, notwithstanding that he was equally deformed in mind and person. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lame Prince] Reference
Old Mr. Stewart, in particular, became dotingly attached to the younger lad, and scarce could bear to have him out of sight the whole day long. From Wordnik.com. [In the Valley] Reference
"Although their children are grown to adolescence, he loves her yet as dotingly as ever youthful swain loves the Phyllis of his boyhood's amours!". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Tufton's Travels] Reference
So on many evenings Captain Sam's front parlor rang with melody, while the captain smoked in the big rocker and listened admiringly and gazed dotingly. From Wordnik.com. [Shavings] Reference
"Oh! I am dotingly fond of Sanditon already in spite of it being a little secluded," interrupted Miss Beaufort, feeling her sister was being a shade premature. From Wordnik.com. [Sanditon] Reference
Luxellian was dotingly fond of the children; rather indifferent towards his wife, since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
= Nouron´ihar =, daughter of the Emir Fakreddin; a laughing, beautiful girl, full of fun and pretty mischief, dotingly fond of Gulchenrouz, her cousin, a boy of 13. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
Patty could not without inhumanity refuse; she stayed with Mrs. Crumpe, who grew so dotingly fond of her, that she could scarcely bear to have her a moment out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
Seraskier, Médor, the diligences and couriers, were all bound westward by common consent -- all going to London, I suppose, to look after me, who was so dotingly fond of them. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Ibbetson] Reference
Rocket and Pocket love everybody,” she said dotingly. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
He looked dotingly across at. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
How dotingly it feeds, how pleasantly!. From Wordnik.com. [The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras] Reference
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