crossed in love
Example Sentences
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Isolated by the pique and indifference of the other royals, neglected, crossed in love and bested by Mrs Parker Bowles, she found “affinity”, she said, with the rejected.
From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017
He no longer seemed tiresome to her, now that she knew he had been crossed in love, as clearly as appeared from his verses.
From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
One writer ventures the hypothesis that he had been crossed in love.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles
The official supplied the date; but he had no knowledge of the affair beyond a village rumor that she had been crossed in love.
From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis
He was a morose and embittered man—had been crossed in love, perhaps—for he met all inquiries by another:—"Who are you a-speaking to?" and, on being told, added:—"Then why couldn't you say so?"
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
