love knot

Example Sentences

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Speaking of misfortunes, the Enys-Mark-Keren love knot ends even more poorly than I thought possible.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2015

Here, the empty spaces, the holes in the white love knot of figures, are as interesting as the limbs, bodies and heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Herrick:— “Thou sent’st to me a true love knot; but I Return a ring of jimmals, to imply Thy love had one knot, mine a triple tye.”

From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)

Why do so many marriages persist when the love knot slips, and bandages fall away from the eyes?

From The Intelligence of Woman by George, Walter Lionel

The hair in the men was allowed to flow to the shoulders or gathered in a love knot, while the whiskers and beard formed a point.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah