They followed him about like two pet dogs, and when he sat down they stood and gazed at him adoringly.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
In those days Athena had still preserved a simulacrum of regard, of affection for her husband, and when she came into his room, when she stood at the bottom of his bed looking with mingled repugnance and pity at his distorted face, he longed to rise and destroy the wanton who had been so adoringly loved and so wholly trusted.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He told himself that a woman who was womanly would be a bore about the house, and smiled adoringly on his own child-like specimen, who waited silently, as though quite sure that he would find a friend in the same way that after some time he had found her brooch.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke