boating

Example Sentences

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He lived in haughty seclusion, and at the end of life wrote a doating Autobiography. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis

Our turn came at last; we were selected by a doating grandpapa for his pet little grand-daughter, and carefully packed up and taken to the abode of our future owner.

From Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves by Broderip, Frances Freeling

Tho' Charles I. had certainly more virtues, and was of a more military turn than his father, yet in the circumstance of doating upon favourites, he was equally weak.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus

I might—for I have often been a witness of such a scene—describe the joy of the doating mother as she beheld her son, in the youthful bloom of manhood, seated at her table.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

Remove the child, and the once doating parent is no longer to him a father.

From Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation by Dods, John Bovee