amorist

Example Sentences

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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

That was a bad day's work for Messer Cino the amorist; Apollo and the Muses limped in rags, and Mars was the only God worth thinking about, except on Sundays.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.

From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

From those extraordinary letters of his, to his friends and to his love, we gather that this fierce amorist of Beauty was not without his Philosophy.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper