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Example sentences for "lovelorn"

Lexicographically close words:
loveliest; lovelight; lovelily; loveliness; lovelinesses; lovely; lovelye; lovemaking; loven; lover
  1. But I am sorry to have displeased King Arthur for the death of this knight; and sorrier still for the fate of this lovelorn damsel.

  2. She asked him the cause of his grief, and he told her the woeful tale of the lovelorn knight, and how he had taken to his bed, vowing never again to rise.

  3. My name is Pelleas," answered the lovelorn knight.

  4. Joan was bewildered, until she looked across the office now and saw Betty and Tim laughing together over some letter she had received for the Advice to the Lovelorn column.

  5. Beside that, Miss Betty conducted an Advice to the Lovelorn Column, which Joan read every evening.

  6. I mean, Ben, that if you aren't so obliging as to marry me, I'll pine away and die a lovelorn death.

  7. Could anything on earth be more serious than a lovelorn death?

  8. But the broken fragments of speech, the confused arrangement, seemed to call before Serena's eye an amusing picture of her lovelorn swain's incoherence.

  9. As she informed Inspector McCausland, Serena had never looked on that lovelorn visage again.

  10. The lovelorn Henriette resolves to follow him, runs away from home, dressed as a man, and enlists in her colonel's regiment.

  11. Any way, she dismissed him, and, though the lovelorn marquis "became so distracted through grief, that he proposed to Mlle.

  12. From that hour she was in a piteous way, and lay in her bed sighing, like a maid lovelorn and forsaken.

  13. In the tree-tops the Wise Birds of Buddha sang for him no more, only from the thicket was heard the cry of the Hototogisu, the bird lovelorn and forsaken.

  14. She soothed the lovelorn and pettish damsel with every expression that could gratify pride and rouse high thoughts of revenge.

  15. The postoffice force was burdened with the task of mailing back to some 500 lovelorn men and maidens the letters which had accumulated in "Marie's" postoffice box.

  16. I have seen his lovelorn face too often not to be able to reproduce it and its various expressions.

  17. You have had a score or so of offers, and did not trouble yourself as to the fate of the lovelorn swains.

  18. That was my first taste of the bitter cup called jealousy I went home a lovelorn boy I took to practising "taps.

  19. I argued, I poured out my lovelorn heart.

  20. The dire infatuation of the lovelorn woman soon wore off, and again she sighed to be free; but it was too late, for the Catholic powers stood aloof from her now that she had married a divorced man, and all her nobles had abandoned her.

  21. I will wait yet a little while upon our lovelorn shepherd, this innocent and tender Trenck, who is in a dangerous way about the little princess.

  22. You will see no lovelorn Tullia, no infirm and toothless Cicero; you will see a fearful picture of Rome, a picture at which I myself shuddered.

  23. That is a true word, Aunt Dorothy," said the lovelorn young woman.

  24. They do walk together a great deal on the ramparts, and the white snaky lady do look up into Sir John's face like this"--here Jennie assumed a lovelorn expression.

  25. But I suppose it had been written in the book of fate that I should ride from Haddon a lovelorn youth of thirty-five, and I certainly was fulfilling my destiny to the letter.

  26. The clown, after listening to the king's lovelorn confidences, reminds him that he has agreed to meet his young Queen Iravati in the garden, and swing with her.

  27. I know some lovelorn hearts that beat In time to moonbeam twinklings fleet, That dance and glance like jewels there, Emblazoning the raven hair!

  28. William Smith who published a volume of lovelorn sonnets called Chloris in 1595.

  29. Alas, however, it was not that sentimental devotion for which the lovelorn Jack yearned, and he confided to Joe that his existence was blighted.

  30. After consoling themselves by getting gloriously drunk at the marriage feast, they called it a day, and went home; not one of them realizing how fearfully his lovelorn oath was one day to bind him.

  31. But he was a square sort of chap, in his way, this lovelorn Jenkins.

  32. Early morning, found the lovelorn youth again at the lake side, but for hours he watched in vain.

  33. Then he behaved just like a lovelorn beau, when his best girl comes near.

  34. It pleased and soothed her to work out a poetic problem—to imagine herself appealing to some foolish heartless swain blind to her love and deaf to her appeal—and to feel her way as she developed the character and mind of the lovelorn lady.

  35. As the reader will remember, her first leanings were towards the comic—as in the humorous sketch of the lovelorn swain piping to his ridiculous love (p.


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