true lovers' knot

Example Sentences

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But Miss Ellenborough came to our rescue with some lovely doughnuts made in the shape of a true lovers’ knot.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston

Here likewise is shown a gold seal ring, found many years ago in a field near Stratford church, on which, delicately engraved, appear the letters W. S., entwined with a true lovers' knot.

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William

I went back to the house, and wrote your name and mine in my work-box, and drew a true lovers' knot under them.

From The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie

Ours is the one true lovers' knot; Note well the burden of my lay— The little loves that I've forgot.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

My slumbers were haunted by dreams of pirate yachts flying the jolly Roger, on which the skull and crossbones melted grotesquely into a wedding-ring and a true lovers' knot.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John