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
To be crossed in love is proper to every poet, and if his wife might have been justly annoyed when in 1382—at least sixteen years after his marriage—he wrote ...
From Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow
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
A cat dying of anxiety may fairly be bracketted off with the broken-hearted oyster crossed in love.
From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme
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
