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Individuals met at his hospitable house who had never met before, but who for years had been cherishing in solitude mutual detestation, with all the irritable exaggeration of the literary character.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I did not know, till Seth nipped it in the bud, what a sweet hope I had been cherishing.

From Aunt Madge's Story by May, Sophie

He had been cherishing a sort of half hope that he would also see Flora standing on the beach awaiting his arrival; but she was not there, and, upon reflection, he was not greatly surprised.

From Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Piffard, Harold

He had been cherishing a fiction that he was in love with Miss Dwight and more than once he had smarted beneath the lash of her contempt.

From The Highgrader by Hutchison, D. C.

For some time the Canadian gentleman who arranged the expedition had been cherishing the idea of training the Indians to perform scenes from “Hiawatha” in the forest on the shores of the “big sea water.”

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth