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
He came very pat with calf love in his eyes; and it seemed that he might well assist us once more and apply his limited attainments to the problem of our sea wolf's approaching exit.
From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden
She was a widow, like Mater, and they had been schoolgirls together, and Mrs. Twombley had been one of the episodes of my father's period of calf love.
From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold
It's only calf love that's always bellering about it.
From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace
