Every reader must be pleased to know that these Idolizing parents lived to see their son at the very summit of his public elevation; even his father lived two years and a half after the publication of his Homer had commenced, and when his fortune was made; and his mother lived for nearly eighteen years more.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
Madame Dumay, Idolizing Modeste, like other women deprived of their children, cast her motherliness about the girl,-yet without disregarding the commands of her husband, who distrusted female intimacies.
"Modeste Mignon"
Honore de Balzac
For, without Idolizing them, I am sure they are still, in many ways, of great use to us; and in former times they have been of the greatest.
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America"
Edmund Burke