crossed in love
Example Sentences
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Isolated by the pique and indifference of the other royals, neglected, crossed in love and bested by Mrs Parker Bowles, she found “affinity”, she said, with the rejected.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2017
Repeatedly have I been crossed in love, and tramped up and down Cheapside and Fleet Street, a blighted being.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
The official supplied the date; but he had no knowledge of the affair beyond a village rumor that she had been crossed in love.
From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy
"I think you have already told me you never were crossed in love?"
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
And if he don't, ten to one but it may break my heart! for that often happens when one's crossed in love.
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
