Well, dear," she said, "your Uncle George has taken a great fancy to you.
A victoria has arrived for me, and a pony-trap for you, dear; for it seems your Uncle George has taken a great fancy to you, my little Nora.
Yet Earl Haakon took a great fancy to the helpless little child and seemed to love him as much as any of them.
The little fellow was made to believe that he was the son of Unas, and as he grew up Bishop Roe took a great fancy to him, for he showed himself to be very bright and intelligent.
The queen looked at the beautiful and bright-faced lad and took a great fancy to him at sight.
Jessie spoke: "Miss Mordaunt took a great fancy to this ring, Mr. Chillingly.
My aunt has taken a great fancy to her, and so has my mother.
In that way she took a great fancy to my sisters, especially Eliza, who had all the same instincts very decidedly pronounced.
We have managed matters so prudently that my husband has taken a great fancy to the Count, and he dines frequently at our house.
He had a great fancy for my husband, and never visited the other Indians without extending the same favour to us.
John had a great dislike to cats, and even regarded with an evil eye our old pet cat, Peppermint, who had taken a great fancy to share his bed and board.
He seemed to have taken a great fancy to the Minor Canon, and followed him about as he pursued his various avocations.
The Gryphoness would have been glad to go and live with the Princess, for she had taken a great fancy to her; but she did not think it worth her while to ask permission to do this.
I, myself, came into these parts because the people every now and then take a great fancy to puzzles and riddles.
I have a great fancy," continued Nigel, without apparently attending to him, "to give you a thorough Church education.
What was strange, Adriana took a great fancy to her Highness, and they were seldom separated.
Mrs. Bunce immediately seemed to take a great fancy to me—made me sit next to her—and, in spite of her meanness, helped me to the best of every thing on table.
Mrs. Curtis took a great fancy to the captain, and allowed him to do pretty well as he chose.
This person she had ever since employed, and took a great fancy to, as she found her honest, industrious, and very obliging.
I've really taken a great fancy to Yvonne, and I want to have her near me.
We have a friend who has taken a great fancy to Yvonne.
One of my brothers, who was more peculiarly Pincher's master, had a great fancy to be a doctor as he called it; and he chipped various flint stones into fancied instruments.
He had a great fancy for a certain piece of soap, but was always scolded when he tried to take it away.
A tame elephant, in the Jardin des Plantes, took a great fancy to a little girl, who used to walk in the menagerie every morning with her nurse, before it was open to the public.
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