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  • She sang several German love-songs in succession, although it was merely for the group about her and not for the room; and Evan Graham, almost to his delight, decided that at last he had found a weakness in her.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • And do you know, I want to go out with love-songs in my ears.

    CHAPTER XXXI 2010

  • It was a spectacle for God, that man and woman, years married, and singing love-songs with a freshness virginal as new-born Love himself, with a ripeness and wealth of ardor that young lovers can never know.

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet.

    Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed John Fordham 2010

  • The women crooned love-songs to their babies over the clear fires and the men talked -- and talked -- and talked until the stars grew big as moons to weary eyes and they slept at last, to dream of khaki uniforms and karnel sahibs who knew neither fear nor favor and who said things that were so.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • He sings instead, which is just as bad, he sings love-songs and hay-making songs in a bright tenor voice and the men who ride with us, to protect us from the armed bands who are everywhere in England these days, join in with him and sing too.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • He sings instead, which is just as bad, he sings love-songs and hay-making songs in a bright tenor voice and the men who ride with us, to protect us from the armed bands who are everywhere in England these days, join in with him and sing too.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • We are told how he himself accompanied his love-songs on his little organ at the intellectual gatherings at the ‘paradisiacal’ country seat of the Florentine nobleman Alberti: he did this so delightfully that there was not one of his audience listening to the sweetness of these wonderful harmonies, who did not feel as if his heart must burst in his chest.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  •   My girl will be the girl they write love-songs about.

    Scorpionic Births: A Letter to an Unborn Daughter 2009

  • He sings instead, which is just as bad, he sings love-songs and hay-making songs in a bright tenor voice and the men who ride with us, to protect us from the armed bands who are everywhere in England these days, join in with him and sing too.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

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