affaire de coeur
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
"May one call it an affaire de coeur?" asked Vassili, with his grim smile.
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
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 Mary Jane Holmes
In this last he gave free rein to the morbid imaginations to which his unhappy affaire de coeur and the mental excitement of the period predisposed P. 63him.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
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 Rutherford Mayne
