calf love
Example Sentences
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But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this is not the true calf love.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
She was very popular with the young friends of her youngest brother, who might have experienced calf love; so very real, but so very ineffectual.
From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen
But I shall pass the child loves by, and instance first my calf love.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack
