well-affected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"I was just on my way to you, my Lord," said Linton, with well-affected eagerness.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Even the intervention of our well-affected cousin of Lochinvar could not prevent this.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
In both these cases, however, the calls took on a lighter and brighter aspect, a more reciprocally admiring and well-affected intimacy, than was strictly necessary to an act of political homage.
From The Perfect Gentleman by Ralph Bergengren
"Don't I, thin—maybe not," said Kerry, tauntingly, and with a look of such well-affected secrecy, that Mrs. Branagan was completely deceived by it.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
"Is there not one here can remember a prayer, or even a verse of the offices," said Gougon, with a well-affected horror in his voice.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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