That is why a priest's light-o'-love is always some honest man's wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

The nurse and the guards believed FitzRoy was serving as Lord Denno's excuse for being in the area, in order to see his imaginary light-o'-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

It was that, during her "Bohemian" period, he had endeavoured to fill the empty niche left in her affections by the departure of that light-o'-love, Captain Lennox, and had been repulsed for his pains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

In a brilliant gleam of electric light, shot from the train in the darkness, I thought I saw the face of my Dolores, with a white gag across the mouth, but the idea seemed so preposterous that I did not give it another thought, thinking it to be some phantom of an overwrought brain, and the woman some light-o'-love of the desperado.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference

Even on the mornings when I heard Dan's step, soft and wary on the cobbles, before the sun was up, and knew by the look of him, and the gruffness in his voice, that he had travelled many a weary mile from his light-o'-love, and that sleep had not troubled him, I would hear the stable door opening and Dan whistling like the cheery early bird as he opened the corn-kist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

Should she wear her heart in mourning for a light-o'-love and a jilt?.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference

And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses] Reference

His conversation with "Mame," his light-o'-love, was conducted along this line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit] Reference

You should blame Menelaus, for taking you all to Troy after such a light-o'-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

"So do you yearn ever for your light-o'-love, for your vanished Joan -- your Damaris that left you --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Conisby's Vengeance] Reference

"So!" he grunted admiringly; "well, now, I like fire in a woman, even a deceiving light-o'-love like you!".    From Wordnik.com.  [54-40 or Fight] Reference

We pray you to forget none of our appointed guests and suitors, and in especial this light-o'-love, Amy Robsart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

Consider – I give them in Shillitoe's formation – the choices open to us: above self-love dove shove glove true-love love lady-love light-o'-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

Hylas, the not exactly "comic man," but light-o'-love and inconstant shepherd, was rather a bone of contention among critics of the book's own century.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference

And she went off and left me, but I bear angry pride deep in my heart, that I, the handsome shepherd, should have been mocked by a wretched light-o'-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

"Oh, yes, my lord," said Christie; "play surprise as well as you will, you must have some guess that I am speaking of the poor fool that was my wife, till she became your lordship's light-o'-love.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

They had been distinctly interesting to Derek, these glimpses of a joyous, idle, light-o'-love life, with a tragic element never very far below its surface, so different from his own gray career of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inner Shrine] Reference

There is Gawain, who has to be put together from the sort of first draft of Lancelot which he shows in the earlier versions, and the light-o'-love opposite which he becomes in the later, a contrast continued in the Amadis and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference

The day will come when you long to be treated as a light-o'-love, to be mastered and swept off your feet by a strong man, one who will not prostrate himself in adoration before you, but will seize your arm roughly in a fit of jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Two Brides] Reference

"You were spared a bad thing, lad: the child was that grand painter's light-o'-love, that is plain to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bebee] Reference

And ye do poor Steenie the mair wrang, for he confessed it ance before us and our privy council, that Dalgarno would have put the quean aff on him, the puir simple bairn, making him trow that she was a light-o'-love; in whilk mind he remained assured even when he parted from her, albeit Steenie might hae weel thought ane of thae cattle wadna hae resisted the like of him. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

"Are you some prince's light-o'-love?" roughly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Cloak] Reference

"She is no man's light-o'-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Cloak] Reference

"Is she some prince's light-o'-love?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Cloak] Reference

"You imply that I am a trifler, a light-o'-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of Graustark] Reference

That she was -- or might have become -- Warren's light-o'-love!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight] Reference

"That creature!" said Lady Washington, -- "that light-o'-love with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thankful Blossom] Reference

She was orange-hooded, a light-o'-love dismissed -- unashamed and unfatigued, having taken -- all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference