1 It was my temper to avoid a crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few.
2 She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother.
3 It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
4 The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.
5 I postponed this attempt for some months longer, for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I should fail.
6 Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me.
7 My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.
8 You were attached to each other from your earliest infancy; you studied together, and appeared, in dispositions and tastes, entirely suited to one another.
9 I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of ocean to that production of the most imaginative of modern poets.
10 A sister or a brother can never, unless indeed such symptoms have been shown early, suspect the other of fraud or false dealing, when another friend, however strongly he may be attached, may, in spite of himself, be contemplated with suspicion.
11 There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.