love knot

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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

By hatred— By danger—the two hands that tightest grasp Each other—the two cords that soonest knit A fast and stubborn tie; your true love knot Is nothing to it.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

I heard his suit the Coxcomb ply; I heard her answer—"No;" A true love knot he ne'er could tie, Who could not bend a bow.

From Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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)