crossed in love

So the doctor, telling the tale of the house – built, its angles deliberately off-kilter, by a man called Hugh Crain, whose young wife died in an accident as she entered the grounds, and whose daughters then fell out over it – notes: “It was said that the older sister was crossed in love … although that is said of almost any lady who prefers, for whatever reason, to live alone”.

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.

"Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then."

Crossed in love, student Lloyd Williams leaves London to fight the Fascists in Spain, with near-disastrous results — as he discovers his Communist "allies" aren't an improvement on the Fascist enemies.

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.