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Meanings of particular fondness in English

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Usage of particular fondness in English
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Brownie's never mentioned a particular fondness for such folly in the past.
Four dukes and a devil
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Nonfiction boy, Fontana called me after that, and not with any particular fondness.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
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Cairne had no particular fondness for humans, but no true dislike of them, either.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
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She has a particular fondness for creepy crawlies -frogs, beetles and the like.
The Guardian
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By the way, my dear boy, do sleep-walkers have any particular fondness for watermelons?
In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
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None of them seem to look back on the fame they enjoyed with particular fondness.
Independent.ie
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Your hostess has a particular fondness for flowers and decorates all her rooms with them.
Mizora: A Prophecy / A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of th...
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All his life he was a lover of languages, with a particular fondness for Italian.
The Irish Times
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Chief celebrant Fr Oscar O'Leary told mourners that Santina had a particular fondness for the Teletubbies.
The Irish Times
10
They seemed to have a particular fondness for settling upon your lips or entering your mouth.
Across Unknown South America
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And she has a particular fondness for Angela.
News.com.au
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The official journal of French eggheads has a particular fondness for later works by 1970s American masters.
The Irish Times
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The habitant had a particular fondness for horses; even the poorest tried to keep two or three.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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He had just been in trouble with the tax men, and had no particular fondness for Whitehall.
Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
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Nelson had a particular fondness for Beethoven.
Silent screams
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Madikizela-Mandela maintained a particular fondness for the Observer, because of the then-editor David Astor's relentless campaign against apartheid.
The Guardian
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United Kingdom
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