affaire de coeur

Example Sentences

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I don't think, in the first case, that this was an affaire de coeur, as the Frenchmen say.

From The Drone A Play in Three Acts by Mayne, Rutherford

"May one call it an affaire de coeur?" asked Vassili, with his grim smile.

From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton

It is a delicate matter, entre nous, une affaire de coeur.

From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Not long after the sad finale of his affaire de coeur, he left his home in the country, and going to Frankfort became a clerk in the post office.

From Tempest and Sunshine by Holmes, Mary Jane

And amongst those who fought for the faith an affaire de coeur with a pretty pagan was held to be a sin as deadly as heresy or magic.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir