She continued to treat him with the same tolerant and distracted affection she had always shown, without demonstrating the least curiosity about his mysterious activities.

It was more than respect, closer to a tolerant affection.

They regarded their two-legged neighbors with tolerant affection.

She patted her huge stomach, looking down with tolerant affection at its giant girth.

She looked at me with tolerant affection.

He spoke with a touching earnestness, and by the light of the stern-lantern Stephen caught a look of tolerant affection on her face.

'So he would be,' agreed Eliud in the soft, musing voice of tolerant affection.

Blade regarded him with a tolerant affection.

'Compassion, honesty, integrity and tolerant affection as well as passion.'

"You know what he is like, milady," he said, with tolerant affection.