Citations:admire


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.
 * Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * How I snuffed that Tartar air! — how I spurned that turnpike earth! — that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
 * Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore that case-bottle, seeing what a faithful friend and comforter it must have been, while with mittened fingers and hooded head he was studying the mathematics aloft there in that bird's nest within three or four perches of the pole.



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 * 2015, Alice Miaolian Baskous, The Marvelously Twisted Tale of Lucas Fico and Gato Pech and The Morning Lark (FriesenPress, ISBN 9781460266960), page 162:
 * Mind your foot circulation by elevating your legs, and let me prepare the meal. I'd admire seeing your head buried in a work of literature – oh, how sweet and adorable you are!