"Protectiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Troup. The last, a strong and splendid specimen of the young American collegian, had assumed at once the relation of big brother to the small West Indian, but was not long discovering that Hamilton could take care of himself; was flown at indeed by two agile fists upon one occasion, when protectiveness, in Alexander's measurement, rose to interference. But they formed a deep and lifelong friendship, and Troup, who was clever and alert, without brilliancy, soon learned to understand Hamilton, and was not long recognizing ...
— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton
... you needn't be afraid,' she said to him, very curtly, and yet with a sort of protectiveness towards him, ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... place—his own soul was like that! Would it reach the hands of his good genius on the opposite side, unruffled and unsoiled? And as his mother became to him the very type of maternity in things, its unfailing pity and protectiveness, and maternity itself the central type of all love;—so, that beautiful dwelling-place lent the reality of concrete outline to a peculiar ideal of home, which throughout the rest of his life he seemed, amid many distractions of spirit, to be ever ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume One • Walter Horatio Pater |
