calf love
Example Sentences
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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
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
A bad attack of calf love all round.
From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
She was a widow, like Mater, and they had been schoolgirls together, and Mrs. Twombley had been one of the episodes of my father's period of calf love.
From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold
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)
