true lovers' knot

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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