lovers' knot

Example Sentences

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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

But Miss Ellenborough came to our rescue with some lovely doughnuts made in the shape of a true lovers’ knot.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston

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

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

And now we have strolled around the chosen area, making Trafalgar Square the centre, and returning to and fro in two great loops eastward and westward, resembling a true lovers' knot.

From The Strand District The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir