endearing

To be familiar and endearing with them all—and so make me mad with envying them.

There was no one to pronounce him the slave of that most endearing of tyrants, the artistic temperament.

They slapped him on the back; they called him all sorts of harsh-sounding but endearing names; they jostled him to and fro.

But how gentle and endearing his deportment could be, was not known till the recollections of Madame D'Arblay were published.

Even to Cherry her voice, rich and deep as it was, never softened; and she rarely used an endearing term.

After this day there was no turning back from bloodshed, and no American ever again spoke of Britain by the endearing name.

There never were congratulations so endearing and delicious, as those she lavished on herself and on the Bride.

I sat by her side and soothed her with awkward, endearing words, and my efforts were rewarded; she became calmer.

Her eyes were as they had been that day near this selfsame spot years before, kind and endearing.

I have received a sweet, endearing, instructive letter from Mr. Ralph Erskine.