Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an amour!. From LearnThat.org. [Behan, Brendan Francis]
The phrase amour-propre since 'propre' means clean elides 'self-love' and 'clean-love'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
Or wonder if your amour is a Drama Queen or Drama King. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Salmansohn: Wedding Bells or Warning Bells?] Reference
No one becomes president without a fair share of what the French call amour propre. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
The word amateur comes from the French 'amour', meaning someone who loves what they do. From Wordnik.com. [Daily DIY] Reference
Missed local burlesque legend Michelle "Toots" L'amour's appearence on "America's Got Talent" last week?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Tony Hayward's Private Idaho with the music of Edith Piaf; 'Hymne a l'amour' My intention with these videos is to present information. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
But have you not, my son, learned that that kind of amour, truly sublime, far from leaving any fatigue behind, lends to the heart a new vigour?. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
Follow'd by 'petits puits d'amour' -- a dish. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
Jupiter's descent to earth; and amour with Calistho. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
White Rose of Sorrento, any secret amour or intrigue?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
If Katharine wins, though, will Paris still be full of amour?. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers: Nick Lachey] Reference
Hamilton had an amour with one Orlof, an aide-de-camp to the Czar. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference
In the easiest way imaginable, he could refer to an amour he had in. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
There is a story that Milo punished him for an amour with his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
In French it's easy to remember the two most important things: humour and amour. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
After this preamble, he told him the amour between Schemselnihar and the prince of. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
"I was prying upon no amour, but seeking to confirm some vague alarms and suspicions.". From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Zeinab, 113, 211; her story, 215-216; the story of Mohammad's amour, a spurious one, 216. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
You will acknowledge that to a woman of my age, such an amour must be delicious and unique. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Either she had a guilty amour with this fellow, or she had some extraordinary need of his services. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
He would forget his amour, he thought, become a member of the clergy, and go preach to the heathen. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Lydia's 'amour propre' was wounded in an incurable manner by that revelation of her own peculiarity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Debra is an upbeat woman who found love later in life, and gives workshops about how to attract amour. From Wordnik.com. [Ilana Donna Arazie: How to Be a Zen Dater] Reference
He became a frequent visitor at the Franklin House, and continued his guilty amour, with unabated zeal. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
He had the power of observation habitual to persons whose sensitive amour propre has frequently been wounded. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her whole character, by consent of the witnesses, renders it very improbable that she would descend to a low amour. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
So things stayed platonic, but passion can heat up in music, as in the one sonata he wrote for his unattainable amour. From Wordnik.com. [Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin: Haydn Made Easy] Reference
So, wherever I went - parks, restaurants, you name it - I would soon be joined by a cloud of gypsy moths with amour on their minds. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Jobs: FAO Schwarz] Reference
I heard but three sentences as I passed; they revealed that MacLachlan at Kilmichael market had once bragged of an amour in Inneraora. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
When at last he declares his "passion" for her and his profound appreciation of her "passion" for him, he's not owning up to overpowering amour. From Wordnik.com. [David Finkle: First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name] Reference
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