His young wife was there, and supported him with tender solicitude toward a seat. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
My solicitude is so great, and my suspense so painful, that I cannot rest a moment in peace, or turn my thoughts into any other channel. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World] Reference
The real and principal object of my anxiety and solicitude is you, and the situation in which you have been so unjustly placed, by the circumstances which have taken place. From Wordnik.com. [English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Now sloth is opposed to solicitude, which is an act of prudence, as stated above (Q. 47, A. 9). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The latter especially felt the greater solicitude, which is natural to those whose interests are immediately threatened. From Wordnik.com. [Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900] Reference
Pastoral solicitude, which is the characteristic chosen for mention in the collect of his feast, made him ever anxious to have the most suitable representatives in Milan. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
For that cannot be a true solicitude, which is not produced in the heart by any other means except by an irresistible force according to the absolute purpose and intention of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
In short, the object of his solicitude was a stout, leathern valise, in the wagon, and which was so heavy that it required the strength of two ordinary men to handle it easily. From Wordnik.com. [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference
Jacob, with a kind of solicitude, with a kind of paternal solicitude, if that were possible. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
One day, with the deepest kind of solicitude on his otherwise stolid but child-like and bland face, he said. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
But I'm ashamed that my government is showing this kind of solicitude to one of the worst dictators in the world. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Was the Government Right to Use Force to Reunite Elian With His Father? - April 24, 2000] Reference
The right kind of solicitude and the right kind of argument will tend to divert her husband's attention away from business, to the advantage of all concerned. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Sometimes hostility masquerades as exaggerated solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [Be Kinder To Your 'Kinder'] Reference
In this world, it looks like a tsunami of maternal solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [Sharon Osbourne is a charmer in a mad, mad world] Reference
Washington, would surely arise from solicitude for the safety of the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
This was the cause of the Cure's great anxiety, of his great solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then with an affectation of ordinary solicitude she turned and said to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
There was an expression of affectionate solicitude on his usually wooden face. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
To effect objects so dear to every patriot I shall devote myself with anxious solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
The victorious life is free from worry, fretting, overanxious solicitude, burdensome care. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
"Drink a cup of tea, it will refresh you," he said with much deep solicitude in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Under these latter circumstances she rebuked him with affectionate solicitude and fidelity. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
Yes, it is true that much moist-eyed solicitude for the poor taxpayer is expressed in budget season. From Wordnik.com. [Disembodied Money] Reference
Miss Hartney added, infusing something of a would-be sympathy and solicitude unto her shrill accents. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Such a consideration does not mitigate, in my view, the Father's solicitude for the salvation of His children now. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Special solicitude is shown to "historically oppressed classes" - basically, everyone except white heterosexual males. From Wordnik.com. ['Compassion' On Campus] Reference
Would not we see the same solicitude multiplied a thousand fold if it were realized that the issues involved are eternal?. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
But this is still the Government of all the people, and it should be none the less an object of their affectionate solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Indeed, this question began to cause me solicitude as soon as I knew Early had escaped me at New Market, for I felt certain that. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
I need not assure you, my dearest, that you command the utmost respect and the tenderest solicitude of which I am capable. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit Upwelling] Reference
Brigitte was looking at me; in her beautiful eyes was neither wounded pride nor anger; nothing but tender solicitude, as if I were ill. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The child was present, for the mother watches over it with a solicitude that promises much for the future, and I examined it leisurely. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Whatever happened to you?" and she hurried forward with kindly solicitude, for the housekeeper was almost a second mother to the youth. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Pitchers, who were cultivating the status of victims long before it became fashionable, saw this solicitude for fans as pure persecution. From Wordnik.com. [The Pitch...It's Outahere] Reference
Sara stepped quickly over the threshold and then paused, swept by an infinite compassion and tenderness almost maternal in its solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
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