lovers' knot

Example Sentences

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They grew till they grew unto the church-top, And then they could grow no higher; And there they tied in a true lovers' knot, Which made all the people admire.

From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Here likewise is shown a gold seal ring, found many years ago in a field near Stratford church, on which, delicately engraved, appear the letters W. S., entwined with a true lovers' knot.

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William

I went back to the house, and wrote your name and mine in my work-box, and drew a true lovers' knot under them.

From The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie

My slumbers were haunted by dreams of pirate yachts flying the jolly Roger, on which the skull and crossbones melted grotesquely into a wedding-ring and a true lovers' knot.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

Ours is the one true lovers' knot; Note well the burden of my lay— The little loves that I've forgot.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn