amorist

Example Sentences

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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "amorist," wore his hair in two becoming plaits à la Marguerite.

From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Without the unique marvel of the mind of Dante, the poetry of Italy is at its highest in the sixteenth century of Tasso and Ariosto, not in the fourteenth century of the subtle amorist Petrarch.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.

From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

That was a bad day's work for Messer Cino the amorist; Apollo and the Muses limped in rags, and Mars was the only God worth thinking about, except on Sundays.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry