Example Sentences

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Sample case: A puny soldier of 25, whose father had been a "strong man" and wrestled with a Russian bear and whose mother had pampered him.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the natural result of the way in which at home they had pampered his vanity, and never checked his faults.

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

I thought of my fashionable companions, who had pampered me, and courted me, in my palmy days.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

She had the will to do so, and she was no coward, but the flesh she had pampered and shielded failed her, which was in no way astonishing.

From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold

I had pampered my conceit with a notion that I was a martyr in the cause of genius and enlightenment.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas