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He had been adoring her alter this fashion when he entered the quay, at the hour when the crowd was melting away, and he heard the anguish and tears of the flute-girls' chant.

From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Lou?s, Pierre

Olga had been adoring her with a somewhat embarrassing intensity ever since the night she had locked her in her room and taught her to talk.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

There, erect, fresh, neat, bright-eyed, fair-faced, smiling, and observant, sat Miss Alice Mayton, a lady who for about a year I had been adoring from afar.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

At another time, a blind priest had been adoring the bit of bread he had just consecrated, but when he went to eat it, it was gone.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various