1 There was employment, hope, solicitude, bustle, for every hour of the day.
2 She would endeavour to be rational, and to deserve the right of judging of Miss Crawford's character, and the privilege of true solicitude for him by a sound intellect and an honest heart.
3 In they both came, and Mrs. Price having kindly kissed her daughter again, and commented a little on her growth, began with very natural solicitude to feel for their fatigues and wants as travellers.
4 William was her pride; Betsey her darling; and John, Richard, Sam, Tom, and Charles occupied all the rest of her maternal solicitude, alternately her worries and her comforts.
5 The real solicitude now awakened in the maternal bosom was not soon over.
6 Here, a bed was prepared, without loss of time, in which Mr. Brownlow saw his young charge carefully and comfortably deposited; and here, he was tended with a kindness and solicitude that knew no bounds.
7 Then, bending over Oliver, he helped to carry him upstairs, with the care and solicitude of a woman.
8 But now, another occupation and solicitude of mind was beginning to be added to these.
9 These points formed her chief solicitude in anticipating her removal from Uppercross, where she felt she had been stationed quite long enough.
10 She was actually forced to exert herself to meet Lady Russell with anything like the appearance of equal solicitude, on topics which had by nature the first claim on her.
11 She had lapsed into an easy and dignified calm, far removed from the intensity of life in her words of solicitude for Clym's safety.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 12 At the same time the severity with which he had treated her lulled the sharpness of his regret for his mother, and awoke some of his old solicitude for his mother's supplanter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 13 This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous.
14 When breakfast was over they were joined by the sisters; and Elizabeth began to like them herself, when she saw how much affection and solicitude they showed for Jane.
15 To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very favourable answer.