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  • He was solicitous about the state of Rainsford's health.   (source)
    solicitous = showing care or concern for someone
  • The commander went on, becoming strangely solicitous.†   (source)
  • He was more than solicitous.†   (source)
  • They smiled, pleased at such solicitous luxury.†   (source)
  • His dad was dead and I liked the way he acted toward his mother, protective and solicitous.†   (source)
  • "I have to say," said Lawton, "that from what you've said of it, you do seem exquisitely solicitous of his needs.†   (source)
  • "Are you all right?" asked Dumbledore, looking down at him solicitously.†   (source)
  • When she came to take care of him every third weekend, she was solicitous and patient.†   (source)
  • I broke away from their solicitous grip.†   (source)
  • Volkheimer approaches; his big solicitous face presses close.†   (source)
  • Solicitously, she prompted him to give her his news.†   (source)
  • Unlike Gerald and Lydia, who preside at the center of their dinners, his parents behaved more like caterers in their own home, solicitous and watchful, waiting until most of their guests' plates were stacked by the sink in order finally to help themselves.†   (source)
  • The university is a delightful place; lots of room in the classes and residences, no crowding in the cafeteria, and the professors are solicitous.†   (source)
  • "Good lady," Varys said with great solicitude.†   (source)
  • "Who with?" said my dad, in a rare burst of parental solicitude.†   (source)
  • That one in the truck just ahead, bending solicitously, even tenderly, over her patient….†   (source)
  • Although Annie never said so, he believed she had filled in the n's either as another evidence of her solicitude , How can you say I was cruel to you, Paul, when you see all the n's I have filled in?†   (source)
  • He solicitously helped her arrange her paper and ink before returning to the stage.†   (source)
  • He was a nice-looking kid, very solicitous of Amy—treated her like a princess.†   (source)
  • Then: "Quite solicitous of you, Alvin."†   (source)
  • Nor were they protective and solicitous of youthful innocence.†   (source)
  • The cheeks had fallen back to the ears and a solicitous mortician had put lipstick on the black mouth.†   (source)
  • She spoke no English, but during dinner on the floor of her hall she seemed very kind and solicitous.†   (source)
  • The authorities had becomemore solicitous of our health, afraid that if we died in prison they would be condemned by the international community.†   (source)
  • His initial expression of solicitous pleasantry is replaced first by alarm and then by disdain.†   (source)
  • The two rose and made ready for the dance; Conroy placing Johnnie in waltzing position, and instructing her solicitously.†   (source)
  • Many people were just returning from the Sunday evening services at the various churches when the general alarm was given, but, beyond the immediate vicinity of the beginning of the conflagration, no unusual fear or solicitude was felt by the citizens.†   (source)
  • They were also solicitous.†   (source)
  • Judge Moore waxed solicitous.†   (source)
  • Seeing it convinced her that his solicitude was genuine, for to dissemble with one's inner self was incredibly difficult, and she did not believe that Murtagh could have deceived her so convincingly.†   (source)
  • " "Nothing of the kind," Dish said, casting a bold and solicitous glance at Lorena.†   (source)
  • A certain concern, a solicitude on my behalf, grave and memoried.†   (source)
  • Over breakfast, Changazi seemed unusually solicitous.†   (source)
  • Weapons and horses were treated with solicitous care, but no second-class private was as valuable as an animal.†   (source)
  • "I've never seen Ella so solicitous," Father said, adding a log to the fire.†   (source)
  • Or is it solicitude?†   (source)
  • She was being solicitous, and there was something remarkably sad in her face, something which had not left after she had cried.†   (source)
  • Jean was solicitous, but he was not pleading or insistent; if anything, he was fraternal and lighthearted.†   (source)
  • 'Are you all right?' he asked solicitously.†   (source)
  • "Fine," he says, his voice high and solicitous, not looking up from the TV.†   (source)
  • "All in solicitude," recorded the Reverend Ezra Stiles at his home in Newport.†   (source)
  • That decision was made out of solicitude for Lisbeth Salander, but if a higher court were to rescind that decision, I would naturally hand them over.†   (source)
  • Miss Bradford was, as I have said, a proud and sour young woman, whose only glimmer of goodness seemed to come from a real solicitude for her unhappy mother.†   (source)
  • "Is your arm bothering you?" he asked solicitously.†   (source)
  • He turned to point solicitously at the mathematical formulas chalked on the blackboard.†   (source)
  • Elements of both our friendship and our survival were mysteriously contained in those tender, solicitous moments, as I put my arm around his shoulder and we leaned against each other.†   (source)
  • "Hey, Doc," Liv calls out, in an airy voice provisional and solicitous, "I finally remembered something I meant to ask you about."†   (source)
  • Nicolo asked, fearful and solicitous.†   (source)
  • He's unloaded the rifle, and now he sets it down on the chair he'd abandoned and hurries across the room to bend over me solicitously.†   (source)
  • You've wondered why I keep Summerset, even when he's …. less than solicitous to you.†   (source)
  • During the remainder of our stay, this good woman treated me with such a wary mixture of solicitude and distrust that I was relieved beyond measure to say farewell to her.†   (source)
  • Maybe he need only sneeze again, and she will rise, solicitous; even now, he can imagine her doing that.†   (source)
  • She was so solicitous it was sometimes embarrassing.†   (source)
  • Bill gave me instructions with such solicitude that I was alarmed.†   (source)
  • Beneath all the jollity, the tenderness, the solicitude, I sensed a disturbing tension in the room.†   (source)
  • ANNIE whispers to it in mock solicitude.†   (source)
  • Peter was very solicitous.†   (source)
  • And another thing which contributed to his change--or rather, relapse--of heart was this: whenever he had a cold his wife Marguerite was always unusually kind and solicitous, forever bringing him sweets, offering him orange or grapefruit juice, plying him with candied pills and sugary syrups freighted with aspirin and codeine and milk of magnesia and heaven knew what; or she would read to him out of the Saturday Evening Post or Field and Stream (which he did not like but which it…†   (source)
  • The sentry came over, and with a gesture of grudging solicitude, put the cigarette between Leamas' lips.†   (source)
  • You live and work here, and there is in your heart solicitude for us and love for our children.†   (source)
  • Putting her arm around Edmund's shoulder— with a fond solicitude which is at the same time remote.†   (source)
  • He denied the duty of elected representatives "to be palsied by the will of their constituents"; and he refused to achieve success by becoming what he termed a "patriot by profession," by pretending "extraordinary solicitude for the people, by flattering their prejudices, by ministering to their passions, and by humoring their transient and changeable opinions."†   (source)
  • His face with its expression that might be solicitude still-and at the same time, meditation, amusement, sleepiness, or implacability when the whole was seen at such close quarters with the black circles, the shell rims, around the eyes-was directed for a round moment on Eugene.†   (source)
  • It seems odd to have one of my students solicitous over my health.†   (source)
  • Crabbe was properly solicitous, but stiff.†   (source)
  • Dick noticed it; he was attentively solicitous to her after her running away—for her return had bound him to her in gratitude for ever.†   (source)
  • Lombard said: "So that's the reason for your womanly solicitude!"   (source)
    solicitude = behavior that shows care or concern for someone
  • nothing could exceed his solicitude and care   (source)
    solicitude = great concern
  • His hand clasped her arm solicitously, as if he would steady her, but she never stumbled.†   (source)
  • The airline staff was solicitous and discreet, and careful with the chair.†   (source)
  • "I'm a solicitous man," Alvin Hooks replied.†   (source)
  • Knowing Taylor, I found Stuart too secure, too vain, too solicitous.†   (source)
  • We were solicitous with each other, almost excessively polite.†   (source)
  • She and Grace are solicitous on the way home, linking their arms through mine, asking me how I feel.†   (source)
  • The words came with a bright smile of relief on Dr. Ferris' face; his solicitous manner returned.†   (source)
  • He was extremely solicitous and wanted to make sure that I liked my new home.†   (source)
  • He was all solicitude, all tender attention.†   (source)
  • But, Jerome, I think you're inconsiderate," she began, glancing solicitously at her sister.†   (source)
  • He bent forward impulsively with awkward solicitude.†   (source)
  • When he was solicitous, my hopes built that he would change his mind and take us home.†   (source)
  • Fighting anger, Rearden told himself that this was Philip's form of solicitude.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he was solicitous and kind.†   (source)
  • 'No, no, no, Yossarian,' Major Danby disagreed solicitously.†   (source)
  • Her manner becomes tenderly solicitous, but there is the strange quality of detachment in it.†   (source)
  • How careful was her obsequious solicitude.†   (source)
  • She helped him into the chair, even more solicitous than usual.†   (source)
  • JAMIE With sudden, big-brotherly solicitude, grabbing the bottle.†   (source)
  • Her manner is again one of detached motherly solicitude.†   (source)
  • She is solicitous of him, tender almost, yet there is something cringing about her, as if she's waiting for a slap, a kick, a flat-handed blow, which she knows with dreary fatalism will surely come sooner or later.†   (source)
  • Harry felt as though he was recuperating from some brief but severe, an impression reinforced by Hermione's solicitousness.†   (source)
  • The solicitude of the women the head pats of the men, pleased Cholly, and the creamy conversations fascinated him.†   (source)
  • He had expected to hear cheer of triumph and jubilation at his death, but instead hurried footsteps, whispers, and solicitous murmurs filled the air.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he was now — in company — solicitous of me, placing my coat with tenderness over my shoulders, paying me small, cherishing attentions, keeping a hand always on me, lightly, somewhere.†   (source)
  • Xandra's friend Lisa (solicitous, following me around, voicing gentle but increasingly urgent concerns that "the family" be notified) had retreated to a corner at some point to dial the number I gave her —and got off the phone with such a look that it had elicited, from Xandra, the only laugh of the evening.†   (source)
  • Many adults seemed to interpret this numbness as a positive sign; I remember particularly Mr. Beeman (an overly clipped Brit in a dumb tweed motoring cap, whom despite his solicitude I had come to hate, irrationally, as an agent of my mother's death) complimenting me on my maturity and informing me that I seemed to be "coping awfully well."†   (source)
  • The same hope that kept them picking beans for other farmers; kept them from finally leaving as they talked of doing; kept them knee-deep in other people's dirt; kept them excited about other people's wars; kept them solicitous of white people's children; kept them convinced that some magic "government" was going to lift them up, out and away from that dirt, those beans, those wars.†   (source)
  • His voice was kind, solicitous.†   (source)
  • A man of easy smiles and endless japes, large and well fleshed, with pink cheeks, blue eyes, and a wind-tossed tangle of white-blond hair as pale as flax, he was a considerate gaoler, ever solicitous of his captive's comfort.†   (source)
  • Don't be solicitous of me.†   (source)
  • After a long pause a voice came on to say, "Yes?" with hardly anything but the most solicitous tone, rising and heedful, the pitch of the word so terribly willing, and thus for me unanswerable, that I gently put down the handset.†   (source)
  • I have happily surmounted them, but I do not find that I am less solicitous to hear constantly from you than in times of more danger…… Years subdue the ardor of passion but in lieu thereof friendship and affection deep-rooted subsists which defies the ravages of time, and whilst the vital flame exists.†   (source)
  • John Gordon was one of those who slipped into the corner of contrition, meeting no one's eyes but bending solicitously over Urith, who clung to his arm, the whiteness of her penitent's robe showing up the purple bruising all around her swollen, broken nose.†   (source)
  • Just three days earlier, at Staten Island, Admiral Lord Howe had spoken solicitously of putting "a stop to these ruinous extremities," if only the Americans would give up "independency."†   (source)
  • I've looked at my life carefully and I've made solicitous choices about what is truly important to me.†   (source)
  • He recalled his childhood, when she surrounded him with dark solicitude, wrapping him in debts of gratitude so huge that as long as he lived he would never be able to pay them back.†   (source)
  • Even though Mrs. Thatcher was on the opposite side of the ANC on many issues, such as sanctions, she was always a forthright and solicitous lady.†   (source)
  • I just sit quietly in the glove-leather seat and watch as the traffic light turns from red to green, and she lets up on the clutch to sling us forward off the line, and we are running, following Route 3A again as the stores and filling stations and kiosks gradually thin out, the horizon coming visible, the golden, burnished woods rushing back, dense and stately in their towering solicitude as we reach the kempt, rolling country of Bedley Run.†   (source)
  • We gathered around Pig solicitously.†   (source)
  • She heard the secretary's respectful, solicitous voice and realized that she had stood there without answering.†   (source)
  • The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.†   (source)
  • He had been unable to discover any clue to Philip's purpose, only some incomprehensible solicitude, of a kind Philip had never displayed before.†   (source)
  • The leader of this team of doctors was a dignified, solicitous gentleman who held one finger up directly in front ofYossarian and demanded, 'How many fingers do you see?'†   (source)
  • Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless solicitude was an ugly danger.†   (source)
  • The threat of Bologna to others had instilled in Doc Daneeka an even more poignant solicitude for his own safety.†   (source)
  • In the past few weeks she had been more tender to him, embarrassingly solicitous of his safety, more jealous of his time.†   (source)
  • "Tell me," Sophie said in a gentle solicitous voice, aimlessly exploiting the lull, "tell me, what's that design sewn onto your robe?†   (source)
  • No, I felt he was essentially too gentle and solicitous to pose any such menace as she had hinted at.†   (source)
  • Dr. Blackstock, ever solicitous, concerned about her breakup with Nathan, had found her a tiny but adequate apartment much nearer his office in downtown Brooklyn and she was moving there.†   (source)
  • I feel so terribly sick, she said to herself as if to some invisible, solicitous doctor, but managed to choke out to the librarian, "I'm sure there is an American poet Dickens."†   (source)
  • And remembered another voice, Morty Haber's, filled with his nervous solicitude: "Don't look so guilty.†   (source)
  • But I am asking you to consider the proposition, not because I don't honor your need for independence as you sojourn in the (to me) barbaric North but out of honest solicitude for the discontent you express in your recent letters, that sense I get that you are not precisely flourishing, spiritually or (of course) financially.†   (source)
  • He traveled so rarely himself that to hear of others doing so always excited his solicitude.†   (source)
  • David darling, you were saying-T' Her voice had become solicitous, penitent.†   (source)
  • He saw them into the train, disposed comfortably by the solicitous Pullman porter.†   (source)
  • By this solicitous behaviour, Mr Tanimoto at once got rid of his terror.†   (source)
  • From urgent solicitude they dropped to coldness and hostility.†   (source)
  • "I say," Helmholtz exclaimed solicitously, "you do look ill, John!"†   (source)
  • At first it seemed as if she were just watching him, with concern and solicitude.†   (source)
  • Yet it was not exactly the solicitude of an incipient father.†   (source)
  • The routine, solicitous voice again inquired.†   (source)
  • Well, this is an example of his rage in the form of solicitude.†   (source)
  • "Sure ye do— Hey, Davy!" with sudden solicitude.†   (source)
  • "No, thanks," he said solicitously, "don't take the trouble.†   (source)
  • The dear fellow gave us each an arm with kind solicitude, Hermine his right, me his left, and conducted us upstairs to a small round room that was lit from the ceiling with a bluish light and nearly empty.†   (source)
  • …(Henry) would have to live for the rest of his life with the knowledge that he was glad that he had been so betrayed, with the coward's joy of surrendering without having been vanquished; the other for that same reason too, who could not have wanted Judith without Henry since he must never have doubted but what he could marry Judith when he wished, in spite of brother and father both, because as I said before, it was not Judith who was the object of Bon's love or of Henry's solicitude.†   (source)
  • Vigilant, powdery, odorous and loose-feathered—so that dogs object to take them in their mouths—armoured against pellets by the padding of these feathers, the pigeons coo to one another with true love, nourish their cunningly hidden children with true solicitude, and flee from the aggressor with true philosophy —a race of peace lovers continually caravaning away from the destructive Indian in covered wagons.†   (source)
  • He had recovered from the stroke and returned to his office, ignoring the objections of his doctor and the solicitous protests of Guy Francon.†   (source)
  • In the washroom, she turned on the water for Francie, punched down on the glass bowl of liquid soap and hovered over Francie solicitously while she washed her hands.†   (source)
  • A large number of people sat round a table: young girls in white muslin: older women with untidy hair and harassed expressions: a few men peered shyly and solicitously out of the background.†   (source)
  • Some of them were on crutches and how proud were the girls who solicitously slowed their steps to their escorts' hopping pace!†   (source)
  • If I took so much time from my own enterprises of theft and reading to walk around this yard with him, hands in pockets, it wouldn't be enough to say it was from solicitude, it was downright fright.†   (source)
  • MOSHER—(calculatingly solicitous—whispering to Hope) Poor Willie needs a drink bad, Harry—and I think if we all joined him it'd make him feel he was among friends and cheer him up.†   (source)
  • But there against the wall was his guide, standing on some invisible foothold, his arms outstretched against the rock, his body flattened against it, his ear over that patch of fresh mud, listening; listening with supersensual ear, it seemed, and he looked to be supported against the rock by the intensity of his solicitude.†   (source)
  • The weeks were packed with work and worry and the handicaps of increasing pregnancy, with old friends growing cooler and her family increasingly more kind, more maddeningly solicitous and more completely blind to what was driving her.†   (source)
  • But he got a polite attention in the house, a respectful solicitude—tender and guilty, from his mother, uneasy and suspicious from his father.†   (source)
  • …swearing as the mules struggled through the ruts; gray-clad couriers dashed spattering through the streets from one headquarters to another, bearing orders and telegraphic dispatches; convalescents limped about on crutches, usually with a solicitous lady at either elbow; bugle and drum and barked orders sounded from the drill fields where the recruits were being turned into soldiers; and with her heart in her throat, Scarlett had her first sight of Yankee uniforms, as Uncle Peter…†   (source)
  • But she, although in a self-solicitous way, was a beautiful piece of tall work, on colossal but careful legs, hips forward; her mouth was big and would have been perfect if there hadn't been something self-tasting in it, eyes with complicated lids but magnificent in their slow heaviness, an erotic development.†   (source)
  • Gordon L. Prescott and Gus Webb were entertained at dinners and cocktail parties; they were treated with tender, curious solicitude, like survivors of disaster.†   (source)
  • He picked up her black fan from the counter and began fanning her solicitously, too solicitously, his face grave but his eyes still dancing.†   (source)
  • His aunt, on the contrary, made hers look like a limp rag so quickly that she would take her Sunday afternoon nap in a new dress to get over the feeling that she had to be solicitous about it.†   (source)
  • His mother was asking solicitously.†   (source)
  • A man in a tall black hat had just come out and was standing on the step looking solicitously into the hallway.†   (source)
  • She came down, smiling solicitously.†   (source)
  • "Yes, of course," solicitously.†   (source)
  • Wasn't that solicitude?†   (source)
  • He recollected her solicitude for his welfare and her interest in all that concerned him.†   (source)
  • "Come, sit down, you look played out," replied Jane, solicitously.†   (source)
  • Nay, Madame, your solicitude does me honour.†   (source)
  • Then Snap, becoming solicitous for its welfare, jumped into the fray.†   (source)
  • He was solicitous about lighting her cigarette and inquiring as to her comfort.†   (source)
  • Her temper was now shorter than ever; but he had become more patient than ever and more solicitous.†   (source)
  • "Are you sick?" she asked, with something of solicitude.†   (source)
  • "Can I be of any service?" asked Duane, solicitously.†   (source)
  • "You walk lame," she said, solicitously.†   (source)
  • He seemed both gentle and respectful, and she felt his solicitude.†   (source)
  • With motherly solicitude, he insisted that Tom get to his feet and walk about.†   (source)
  • Glenn rode beside her, inquiring solicitously as to her pleasure.†   (source)
  • Knowing that the end was so near, she became rather solicitous.†   (source)
  • ANOTHER (with a gracious smile): Kind solicitude!†   (source)
  • With unusual solicitude he uttered his stock phrase, "Well, what seems to be the matter, Maud?"†   (source)
  • He tried to persuade her to stay away from the round-up, and Florence grew even more solicitous.†   (source)
  • Hudnall was all kindliness and solicitude now.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fisher looked about her with the eye of the solicitous hostess.†   (source)
  • Something in the other's solicitude and interest made her feel as if she were the one to condescend.†   (source)
  • His resentment was night-blurred; he was solicitous in inquiring, "What's the trouble, hon?"†   (source)
  • Her voice was as clear as a bell, and full of wifely solicitude.†   (source)
  • The two aunts laughed heartily, too, for Gabriel's solicitude was a standing joke with them.†   (source)
  • She was solicitous about his health and his welfare.†   (source)
  • He made light of the incident, but she was solicitous.†   (source)
  • "Ah, indeed?" the general inquired solicitously.†   (source)
  • Bobby was solicitous and willing, but there were no roller-chairs.†   (source)
  • Her solicitude for Bo had been forgotten.†   (source)
  • But you look tired," he added, solicitously.†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew was standing before her, saying something to her with a look of tender solicitude.†   (source)
  • In two days the solicitude would be booming.†   (source)
  • She panted with solicitude when she thought of possible injury to Troy.†   (source)
  • Have you no faith in my wisdom, in my tenderness, in my solicitude for your future?†   (source)
  • All at once his face expressed a sudden solicitude.†   (source)
  • "Excuse the solicitude of a father's heart!" said M. Nioche.†   (source)
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