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"Soft spot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be caught out in the desert with twenty men by Ali Higg! He's a rip-roaring typhoon. But the worst typhoon the world ever saw had a soft spot in ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy
... for Heaven's sake, don't!" cried the young man. "Have you no soft spot in your heart? God, I believe you enjoy all this. Look! Look what it says about her! The whole shameful story of that scene last night! There was a reporter ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... Charles's sake. Yet what a ten thousand pities; for notwithstanding the plebeian origin on the mother's side, didn't Faircloth—these reflections came later—really surpass every male Verity present, young Tom included, though she confessed to a very soft spot in her heart for young Tom?—Surpass them, just as her brother Charles had always surpassed them in good looks and charm as in inches, above all in his air of singular good-breeding? And how extraordinarily he had transmitted ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet
... out a soft spot in the grass for himself, and was in the act of sitting down, when Felicity's tactful speech arrested him midway. He straightened up and turned a wrathful face on his provoking sister. Then, red with indignation, but without a word, ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... its kind; in his student days he had rented a studio in a precisely similar building, and the concierge to whom he applied might have been the twin sister of the voluble amply proportioned citoyenne of long ago who had kept a maternal eye on his socks and shirts and a soft spot in her heart for the bel Anglais who chaffed her unmercifully, but paid his rent with commendable promptitude. A huge woman, with a shrewd not unkindly face, she sat in a rocking chair with a diminutive kitten on her shoulder and a mass of knitting in her lap. As ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull |
Words linked to "Soft spot" : orifice, anterior fontanelle, sphenoidal fontanel, sphenoid fontanelle, jugular, opening, affectionateness, sphenoid fontanel, heart, sphenoidal fontanelle, porta, affection, fondness, weakness, warmness, weak part, good part, underbelly, child's body, philia, brainpan, braincase, Achilles' heel, tenderness, warmheartedness, cranium |
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