Crossword-Solution: ENDEARING 9 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

His indulgence in the pleasures of the table was an endearing bond between him and the women of his congregation.

Charity's thoughts were far away, in the dismal house by the swamp, and under the twilight sky during the long drive home, when Lucius Harney had consoled her with endearing words.

But the distance between them did not make him seem less near: it was as if his thoughts moved with her and touched her like endearing hands.

She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer to her than another: there was no centre of early pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others.

She sympathized with us so, she never said a word when Leon sang: "Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still--" while Miss Amelia drove from sight up the Groveville road.