amor

Example Sentences

• "Ienkin had knowledge, and ſaw you in your Shepheard apparels, and was make ambulations after you hither, out of meere amors and affections as her was true Sentilman."
• "Don Ped. That all the care I took of myself should be thrown away—never exposing myself to the night air; never fatiguing myself beyond a gentle perspiration, so careful of my diet, so regular in my hours, so chaste in my amors [originally amours], and after all this, in the evening of my days to have a long spado run through my guts, and look like a blue-breech’d fly with a corking pin sticking in it!"
• "In this manner I succeed in my amors, and would advise thee to take the same method."
• "‘Dulce, will you go to the masquerade-ball to night?’ said I to my lesser-half, on a bright evening during the gayest part of the ‘carnival season.’ / ‘No, my amor,’ answered she; ‘I am ill this evening; do n’t go out to-night, but stay by my side, and let your cheering presence save a doctor’s fee.’"
• "But even in the midst of my love affairs I always retained sufficient sense to criticise the moral and intellectual calibre of the women I loved, and I held strong views on the advisability of mental and moral sympathies and congenial tastes existing between people who married. In my amors I had hitherto found no intellectual equality or sympathies."
• "The late Queen was a model in this respect about the amors of His Majesty, even allowing his mistresses to become her ladies-in-waiting."