amourettes

Chevalier regarded as "amourettes," but they cost Chesnel something considerable in portions for forsaken damsels seduced under imprudent promises of marriage: yet other cases there were which came under an article of the Code as to the abduction of minors; and but for

The Jealousies of a Country Town Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Chevalier regarded as "amourettes," but they cost Chesnel something considerable in portions for forsaken damsels seduced under imprudent promises of marriage: yet other cases there were which came under an article of the Code as to the abduction of minors; and but for

The Collection of Antiquities Honor�� de Balzac 1824

As a general rule Somali women prefer amourettes with strangers, following the well-known Arab proverb, “The new comer filleth the eye.”

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

'The demoiselle de Chateau-neuf, one of the king's _mignonnes_, before he went to Poland, having espoused, _par amourettes_, the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

Why should we be saddled with the child of a Popish priest's amourettes?

The Gadfly 1912

Saint Valentine's days with their profane associations, a saint for finding lost objects and another for prospering amourettes, since all great and tragic loves have their inevitable patrons in Christ and the

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

But in the gay middle period his pages overflow with decorative Cupids and tiny devils, joyful girls, dainty amourettes, and Parisian _putti_ -- they blithely kick their legs over the edges of eternity, and smile as if life were a snowball jest or a game at forfeits.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

Grettir as a man almost everywhere lacks the last touches, while the sagaman has simply thrown away the opportunities afforded him by the insinuated amourettes with Steinvor and the daughters of the friendly spirits, and has made a mere _fabliau_ episode of another thing of the kind.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Morris, for a time that condoned the amourettes of Benjamin Franklin, was virtuous.

Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

Our preference that spring was for a certain meadow abloom with pink amourettes, and I always brought home great bouquets of these flowers.

The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886