calf love
Example Sentences
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But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I beg,” Jacob said with dignity, “that you will not compare your calf love for a picture-postcard young lady with what might easily have been a great passion.”
From Jacob's Ladder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
People laugh at "calf love," but one might as well laugh at the wonder of dawn or the coming of spring.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
This is undoubtedly your calf love; but for Beauty’s sake show better taste next time.
From Martin Eden by London, Jack
