love-token

• “Apparently the Lady feels a bit flirtatious; perhaps she is giving him a little love-token.”

  Seduction and Guillaume de Lorris's Romance of the Rose

• ““Had we lingered near the spot, we had found it a love-token with a vengeance.””

  Kenilworth

• “I supposed it must be some old love-token, till he reminded me he was a botanist.”

  The Mask of Apollo

• “Prompted by greed, Borodaty bent down to strip off the rich armour, and had already secured the Turkish knife set with precious stones, and taken from the foe's belt a purse of ducats, and from his breast a silver case containing a maiden's curl, cherished tenderly as a love-token.”

  Taras Bulba and Other Tales

• “The idea of the sacredness of a ring as a love-token is voiced by”

  Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from

• “A gentleman of the name of Kooloo fixed his affections upon Typee -- or rather upon his goods and chattels; for when he had wheedled him out of a regatta shirt, and other small pieces of finery, he transferred his affections to a newly-arrived sailor, whose chest was better lined, and who bestowed on him a love-token, in the shape of a heavy pea-jacket.”

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

• “He could not explain to Lisle that to request that Lydia's love-token might be removed would have seemed to him to be like going down to her level and rejecting what he preferred to ignore.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878

• “Observing the name of Shadrach, he felt sure it must have come from Gussie; no one else knew his second name, so she must have sent this sweet love-token.”

  Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces

• “Had she some such love-token on her neck as the old Don's revolver had left on his?”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860

• “-- And which of them was to surmise, that upon the heart of the dead lay the love-token of a heretic?”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844

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