fonder

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, where books are concerned.

But I imagine that we got fonder of each other, and he put me up for things.

As George Eliot says: “We get the fonder of our houses if they have a physiognomy of their own, as our friends have.”

A change had come over him since they parted; he had grown fonder of his parents, but colder to her.

The jovial Campers became ever bluffer and heartier and fonder of them as song followed song.

"Absence hasn't made the heart grow any fonder," he reflected.

Marmoset was fonder of riding than walking, so that Grampus had enough to do; but he did not put himself much about.