crossed in love

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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

Poor Rosalind, meanwhile, was as profoundly unhappy as it was well possible for a girl to be who was young, beautiful, rich, talented, well-born, sweet-tempered, high-principled, not crossed in love, and moreover in perfect health.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs

"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 Lever, Charles James

One would think he had been crossed in love.

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

"You talk as if you had been crossed in love," she consoled him.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph