amour

• The scene is continued in Florence from the commencement of the amour, and the time from first to last, is but three days Soon after Mr. Congreve's return to England, he amused himself, during a slow recovery from a fit of sickness, with writing a comedy. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
• After his marriage the Count soon quarrels with his wife and consoles himself by falling in love with his ward, the matchless Melliora, but the progress of his amour is interrupted by numerous unforeseen accidents. —  The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
• And the careless rapture of the amour was indeed to be roughly interrupted shortly after Jefferson finished his poetic survey. —  Understanding Thomas Jefferson
• This amour was probably terminated before the fair lady's retreat to a cloister, which seems to have taken place before the representation of Otway's “Don Carlos,” in 1676. —  The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I
• My mother used always to rally me about this childish amour, and at last, many years after, when I was sixteen, she told me one day, 'O Byron, I have had a letter from Edinburgh, and your old sweetheart, Mary Duff, is married to Mr C And what was my answer? —  The Life of Lord Byron

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