Then the final principle of friendship, in which all other friendships terminated, those, I mean, which are relatively dear and for the sake of something else, is of another and a different nature from them. For they are called dear because of another dear or friend. But with the true friend or dear, the case is quite the reverse; for that is proved to be dear because of the hated, and if the hated were away it would be no longer dear.英文原著 · 《Lysis》
There's not a fork or a spoon in the collection,' said Miss Pross, `that I didn't cry over, last night after the box came, till I couldn't see it.'
`I am highly gratified,' said Mr. Lorry, `though, upon my honour, I had no intention of rendering those trifling articles of remembrance invisible to any one. Dear me! This is an occasion that makes a man speculate on all he has lost. Dear, dear, dear! To think that there might have been a Mrs. Lorry, any time these fifty years almost!'
`Not at all!' From Miss Pross. `You think there never might have been a Mrs.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
"`You pretended not to know her! Oh, dear! oh, dear!' and her laughter echoed among the trees again. `I saw her looking at you, and you ate on like a pig! Oh, dear! oh, dear!'英文原著 · 《Frivolous Cupid》
And may not the same be said of the friend? That which is only dear to us for the sake of something else is improperly said to be dear, but the truly dear is that in which all these so-called dear friendships terminate.英文原著 · 《Lysis》
"My dear, my dear," said Mrs. Charrington brusquely, "don't trouble yourself about him. I haven't lived fifty years for nothing. these men, these men! They take themselves too seriously, the dear creatures. But they are just like ourselves, with a little more conceit and considerably less wit. And they are not really worth all the trouble we take for them. I must get to know your medallist, my dear.英文原著 · 《The Doctor》
I will write again soon; so pray do not fret yourself, for I have had no hurt that will trouble me for any time."
Of course, poor Susan Posey burst out crying, and cried as if her heart would break. Oh dear! Oh dear! what should she do! He was almost killed, she knew he was, or he had broken some of his bones. Oh dear! Oh dear! She would go and see him, there!--she must and would.英文原著 · 《The Guardian Angel》
You only tell your dearest, closest friend, sworn to secrecy for life, You only tell your dearest, closest friend, sworn to secrecy for life,演讲 · 《A call to men ~ Tony Porter》