"Protectiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... protectiveness. They are wonderful, and so are some women. When I saw you in the omnibus at Milan I thought ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... watchfulness and yearning and anxiety, of determination and an inviolable hope. Her eyes had a deeper look than that in Jim's. Now, as she gazed at him, the maternal spirit rose up from the great well of protectiveness in her and engulfed both husband and child. There was always something of the maternal in her eyes when she looked at Jim. He did not see it—he saw only the wonderful blue, and the humor which ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker |
