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  • These eye-encounters in the street, little touches of love-liking; faces that ask, as they pass, 'Are you my new lover?'

    More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

  • Our young barbarians have it all their own way with us when they fall into love-liking; they lead us whither they please, and interest us in their wishings, their weepings, and that fine performance, their kissings.

    Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Our young barbarians have it all their own way with us when they fall into love-liking; they lead us whither they please, and interest us in their wishings, their weepings, and that fine performance, their kissings.

    Case of General Ople George Meredith 1868

  • Our young barbarians have it all their own way with us when they fall into love-liking; they lead us whither they please, and interest us in their wishings, their weepings, and that fine performance, their kissings.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • As thou knowest, Spina, whom thou hast, though after a fashion misbeseeming both thyself and her, taken with love-liking, is a widow and her dowry is both great and good; as for her manners and her father and mother, thou knowest them, and of thy present state I say nothing.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • Moreover, Catella, having thus learned how much more savoury were the lover's kisses than those of the husband and her former rigour being changed into kind love-liking for Ricciardo, from that day forth she loved him very tenderly and thereafter, ordering themselves with the utmost discretion, they many a time had joyance of their loves.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • I conjure thee by the virtue of Him who hath afflicted thee and with the constraint of love-liking hath stricken thee, that thou acquaint me with thine affair and disclose to me the truth of thy secret; for that indeed I have heard from thee verses which trouble the mind and melt the body. "

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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