swain's

Imagine my shock as I settled into my chair a few days later and saw my former swain's name in my inbox.

Think Before Pinging Your Ex 2006

A simple Google search on my former swain's name brought up the band website, reviews in area press and listings of events where the band will be playing over the holidays.

How Long Is Your Digital Trail? 2004

Ah, the deep contralto of that boyish voice of hers roundly mouthing the pompous swain's wooing!

Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

On the swain's next visit, the father interviewed him:

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What was conveyed in that look we will not pretend to fathom; but simply affirm that its effect was an entire derangement of the love-sick swain's determination to forget the cause of his wretchedness, and a dispersion of every idea save the one ruling sentiment of love for her.

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

In sooth, the swain's position resembled the novelist's own.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

After such reiterated assurances that she was about to die on the spot, it appears that Œnone thought better of it, and the poem concludes with her taking the wiser course of going to town to consult her swain's sister, Cassandra -- whose advice, we presume, prevailed upon her to live, as we can, from other sources, assure our readers she did to a good old age.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

As she roars her song, in a voice of which it is enough to say that it leaves no portion of the room vacant, the three musicians follow her, laboriously and note by note, but averaging one note behind; thus they toil through stanza after stanza of a lovesick swain's lamentation: --

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

The more costly the musical ingredients, the greater the swain's devotion!

Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

Thomas, for that was the swain's name, made an assignation one night to meet Jenny in the orchard at

Scottish Ghost Stories Elliott O'Donnell 1918