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Endearments, kisses, grunts, and whispered oaths; But were her thoughts on breakfast, or on clothes?

From Time Magazine Archive

Endearments fell from his lips, but now she made him keep his distance, though so tactfully that he obviously did not realise his repulse.

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Whenever he met an Acquaintance he handed him a rhetorical Yard of Daisies and then smeared him with Sweet Endearments.

From People You Know by Ade, George

Endearments had not yet become usual between them, and feeling himself morally inferior he felt terrified at this stage to use them to such an angel.

From Father Sergius by Maude, Louise Shanks

S. Endearments would, I should think, increase regard, where there was love beforehand; but that is not exactly my case.

From Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion by Hazlitt, William