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
It is rare to find in popular songs the idea of the convent as a refuge for maidens crossed in love; but some pretty poems have this theme.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Poor Rosalind, meanwhile, was as profoundly unhappy as it was well possible for a girl to be who was young, beautiful, rich, talented, well-born, sweet-tempered, high-principled, not crossed in love, and moreover in perfect health.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs
