dearlier

Example Sentences

• "Woulde it greue hym to ſet naught by money foꝛ Chꝛiſtes ſake, that is readye to leade hys ſonne, whome the father loued dearlier than he did hym ſelfe, vnto death?"
• "How lovely now doſt thou appear to me! Never was man dearlier rewarded."
• "Neece. Not I Sir! all my joys that word cuts off; / You made profeſſion once you lov’d me beſt; / ’Twas but profeſſion! / Hip[polito]. I do’t too truly, / And fear I ſhall be chid for’t: Know the worſt then: / I love thee dearlier then an Uncle can."
• "Oh you are pleaſant Strephon. Sapho ſay, / Are you as cruell as Aminta? Day / Loves not the Sunne-ſhine dearlier than my flame / Is equally devoted to your name: / To yours Aminta joyntly, Oh you two, / Are clearer, ſweeter than the morning dew / Falling in May on Lillies, fairer farre / Than Venus Swannes, or ſpotleſſe Ermins are."
• "My beſt reſpect to our beſt friend. If thou loveſt me, be merry. He deſires it, who loves thee dearlier than himſelf, and ſhall ever remain / Thy truly loving huſband, J. C."
• "Communion with Chriſt, his body and blood and his Saints in his Ordinances, is a bleſſing ſo great, that he that robs ſuch of it that have right to it, may anſwer it dearlier than if he had rob’d them of their purſes: […]"