true-love's

His were the unscrupulous soldier's rather than the eager true-love's dreams.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

"Even so," I said, "did Stark the Viking hear the notes of the enchanted horn teaching every tree he came to the echo of his true-love's name."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

Mrs. Bines managed to forget her relationship of elder sister to the poor long enough to behave as a mother ought when the heart of her daughter has been given into a true-love's keeping.

The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

And the colonel added, with a laugh, "I hope that the coincidence will stop at this and that my dear Edith will never have to go in search of her true-love's body, like her prototype."

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

Jack Copley, too, clamoured to be heard still further on the subject of his true-love's charms, so the author yielded to this twofold pressure, and added a few corroborative details.

A Cathedral Courtship Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Spake Arthur: Lady, had I no will to swear oath for thy sake, yet with a good will would I swear it for my true-love's sake who loveth thee.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

All he supposes is, that I am fond of news; which he is perfectly welcome to suppose, as he, therefore, to put it in his true-love's power to oblige me, picks up all he can gather; especially on this head; as

Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:

A Midsummer-Night's Dream 1595

_) Hark! he comes! count Roland comes! and, as I thought -- see! towards Ulrica's residence! to sigh and moan under his true-love's window!

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810