love-affairs

The count - less men of the past, even from before the time they swung down out of the trees, who devoted more time and energy to their love-affairs than to the winning of food and shelter, died from innutrition in various ways.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Your love-affairs — how well you have out grown them and how ably you criticise them!

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Nothing has remained to you of your love-affairs, therefore your recital of them is empty of meaning.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

This generalisation upon all the love-affairs within the scope of a single lifetime cannot but be true, and it is quite in line with the general argument.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

They host New Year's Day brunches in Issey Miyake pleats, their solicitors wear Alexander McQueen shoes, their love-affairs are kept going through texts and meetings in airport hotels and presents of Hermès scarves.

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright – review 2011

The paths to these soundless raptures are often love-affairs with sound, leading to the very word:

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

In a few words I told Ascyltos of the robbery, when he joined us, and of our unfortunate love-affairs as well.

Satyricon 2007

The great ladies of old flaunted their love-affairs, with newspapers and advertisements; in these days the lady has her little passion neatly ruled like a sheet of music with its crotchets and quavers and minims, its rests, its pauses, its sharps to sign the key.

Another Study of a Woman 2007

The great ladies of old flaunted their love-affairs, with newspapers and advertisements; in these days the lady has her little passion neatly ruled like a sheet of music with its crotchets and quavers and minims, its rests, its pauses, its sharps to sign the key.

Another Study of a Woman 2007

I was not so preoccupied with my love-affairs as to neglect what I will confess was always my custom at night across that wild and lonely park.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006