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Example sentences for "love affair"

  • It was not the way Ephraim would have gone about a love affair, had he had one.

  • As we see her this morning, could she indeed ever have had a love affair?

  • Like most young men who have a love affair on hand he wanted to be alone and dream dreams and see visions.

  • But it doesn't look to me much like a love affair.

  • And you made up your mind right off that it was a love affair, eh?

  • She did not even, as Miss Theodora had dreaded, reprove her cousin for allowing this love affair to develop unchecked by her.

  • But Miss Theodora never told any one exactly how she felt when she heard of the strange ending of Ernest's love affair.

  • She wondered if she herself had been too stern in her attitude toward Ernest's love affair.

  • Perhaps the damsels had lovers already, or did not wish to have a love affair on their hands, for in truth the youths were both good fellows, such as many a noble lady would have liked for a lover.

  • The lady being informed of her lord's love affair, though she did not show it, was not well pleased; but she devised a plan, which was this.

  • Only one word further was said that evening by Miss Stanbury about Brooke and his love affair.

  • There was certainly a love affair of which he did not personally approve, as the gentleman had no fixed income and as far as he could understand no fixed profession.

  • He was," he said, "much attached to his niece Nora, but he had heard that there was a love affair.

  • Occasionally one meets a man who plunges into a love affair as he plunges into the surf, but most of them just sit back lazily on the beach and let the waves of emotion splash harmlessly over them.

  • The sweetest part of a love affair is just before the confession when you begin discussing love in the abstract and gazing concretely into one another's eyes.

  • What a man calls his conscience in a love affair is merely a pain in his vanity, the moral ache that accompanies a headache, or the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction.

  • Er-r, had Miss Gilbert any - love affair, any trouble of such a nature that it might have preyed on her mind?

  • I should rather say that she had had a love affair, but that it had been forgotten, perhaps a year ago.

  • I feel that you ought to know this, but really I don't think it is right to say that Georgette had a love affair.

  • Judge, isn't it you would lend a boy a hand in a love affair?

  • If you are conjecturing a love affair between Mr. Osborne Hamley and me, you never were more mistaken in your life.

  • He did not like the having to go and tell of a love affair so soon after he had declared his belief that no such thing existed; it was a confession of fallibility which is distasteful to most men.

  • It was during those years that Leonora tried to get up a love affair of her own with a fellow called Bayham--a decent sort of fellow.

  • It was a love affair--a pure enough thing in its way.

  • He always worked best at the beginning of a love affair.

  • I mean it takes two to make a quarrel, and it certainly takes two to make a love affair.

  • If a love affair is being inquired about, Cups must represent it.

  • If the suit is Cups they mean the beginning of a love affair, and in the same way hatred or a quarrel is denoted as beginning if the Sword suit is used, while Ace, Deuce, and Tray of Money announce the inception of a business transaction.

  • The Ace of Cups the dawn of a love affair, the Deuce opposition to it, and the Tray consent.

  • Here I broke off, and wrote Bourget a dedication; no use resisting; it's a love affair.

  • For when he gets into the barbed wire tangle of a love affair, he needs the wise counsel of a middle-aged woman.

  • No middle-aged married man gets on well with a love affair who is out of daily reach of his wife.

  • This is not a love affair," Marriot shouted, apologetically.

  • On my word of honor it isn't a love affair--at least not exactly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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