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  • Stood, on his ingrate _friend_ to gaze; no answ'ring love-look came;

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 Various

  • But the love-look, which for the life of her she could not keep back, had been followed by a feeling of having 'lost caste.'

    The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900

  • But the love-look, which for the life of her she could not keep back, had been followed by a feeling of having 'lost caste.'

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Consumed by conflicting thoughts, I recollected how sweet and true had been our affection; with what an intense passionate love-look she had gazed upon me with those wonderful eyes of hers; with what wild fierce passion her lips would meet mine in fond caress.

    The Seven Secrets William Le Queux 1895

  • This was merely on the surface, however, for the artist was desperately wretched, because the other half of himself was married to another man, while Chaldea, getting neither love-look nor caress, felt savagely discontented.

    Red Money Fergus Hume 1895

  • That sweet, intense love-look of hers an hour ago could never be feigned.

    Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895

  • Then slowly, with a sweet love-look upon her beautiful countenance, she raised her face to mine, and then for the first time our lips met in a fierce and passionate caress.

    Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895

  • I took both her hands in mine, and fixing my gaze straight into those dear eyes wherein the love-look shone -- that look by which a man is able to read a woman's heart -- I asked her a question.

    The Seven Secrets William Le Queux 1895

  • She smiled contentedly, and I saw in those eyes the genuine love-look: the expression which a woman can never feign.

    Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895

  • "And I your wife, Owen," she said, with a sweet love-look.

    Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895

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