Gradually their tastes and affections are loosened from lower attachments, and are wrought to a perfect sympathy with what is holy and abiding.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
The society to which you belong by such slender attachments gives no wound by separation from it.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The negroes are as capable of strong personal attachments to their religious instructors as are any other people, and of their own will are inclined to make confidential communications!
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch