love-words

"Dear" and "darling" were too terribly intimate for them to achieve quickly; and, unlike most mating couples, they did not overwork the love-words.

Chapter 2 2010

She muttered gasping, inarticulate love-words, rocking slowly to and fro the while, and patting Genevieve's shoulder with her ponderous hand.

Chapter 6 2010

Slothrop, poor sap, is remembering Katje, lost Katje, saying the name of her city, whispering Dutch love-words as they moved down sea-mornings now another age, another dispensation ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Warning, sweet unconscious love-words, weeping, laughter, blessed gladness, fear, anguish over lost happiness, bride-like embarrassment, forgetfulness of the world in the one moment which was life to her -- all this trembled through each quivering word she uttered.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

That the love-words spoken nightly spring straight from a loving heart;

The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner

But when, supper over, she found the corners of the rosebud mouth still pathetically down and Billy's breath still quivering in long gasps, she gathered the snuggly body to her and vowed in little broken love-words that from now on his father should have no further opportunities for discipline.

Dust 1921

He stood there very straightly, peering through my glasses -- and then forgot all about me and began speaking to his son in childish love-words.

Carry On Letters in War-Time Coningsby Dawson 1921

Next, in lieu of his enemy, he saw Skipper's head, and crept to it and loved it, kissing with his tongue the hard cheeks, the closed lids of the eyes that his love could not open, the immobile lips that would not utter one of the love-words they had been used to utter to the little dog.

Chapter 15 1917

When she thought of the shy games and silly love-words she had lavished, she was ashamed, and wondered if they had made her seem a fool to him.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

From a little distance, there came a murmur of love-words.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914