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
A cat dying of anxiety may fairly be bracketted off with the broken-hearted oyster crossed in love.
From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)
"I think you have already told me you never were crossed in love?"
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
To be crossed in love is proper to every poet, and if his wife might have been justly annoyed when in 1382—at least sixteen years after his marriage—he wrote ...
From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.
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
