Noun : a lover of music. ,a lover of mankind. From Dictionary.com.
Suddenly, his expression was anything but loverlike. From Wordnik.com. [Black Magic] Reference
They moved to the open window, arms around one another, loverlike. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
And there was nothing remotely loverlike about the way he treated her. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard Of London]
The jest hurt her a little, and seeing it, he was quick with loverlike recompense. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Their behavior wasn't really loverlike, but it was the closest he'd ever seen Kris come to it. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
The girl is particularly unusual and piquant, the man more than ever loverlike and fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
He wanted to say something loverlike but felt inhibited by her cheerful, matter-of-fact attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
Stooping, she gathered his head to her breast, that breast where, loverlike, it had lain a hundred times. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
He lost all his diffident dubiety and was anew the bold adventurer, treading loverlike upon the very stars. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
There had been nothing in the least loverlike in Tony's attitude towards her during his visit to the Cottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
He had recovered himself, had defined his passing reserve in loverlike terms, and was newly aware of unworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
There was just the right ripple of amusement in her tone to totally depress any loverlike pretensions Ferdinand was nursing. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
But if he was courting herit was just a bit difficult to be loverlike when he never saw her except in the company of ten or twenty other people. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Valor]
There was nothing very loverlike in their attitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrayal] Reference
Between them there was an affection that was very loverlike. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference
If sugarplums of speech, if loverlike attentions could have cured. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference
Even when he was with her, she missed the old loverlike attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Martie, the Unconquered] Reference
Every pulse of loverlike feeling which had not been stilled during. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
"Would you care very much, Wanda?" he asked loverlike and foolishly. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Cut] Reference
"Then I shall be a politician," he answered, with loverlike promptness. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
And Jo took heart again, for that salutation could not be called loverlike. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
"Not if I might hope to win that of the dear lady by my side," he returned in low, loverlike tones. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie at the World's Fair] Reference
He was polite to his wife, and even loverlike with the set phrases and gestures and caresses of habit. From Wordnik.com. [Making People Happy] Reference
Wogan was holding the Princess in a clasp too loverlike, though, to be sure, it was none of his business. From Wordnik.com. [Clementina] Reference
But still she shrank and trembled at every loverlike caress, and still she said, fearfully, every now and then. From Wordnik.com. [Faith Gartney's Girlhood] Reference
The passion of father for daughter, of mother for son -- there is often something very loverlike in it -- a deal of whimsy!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women] Reference
The first brief look convinced Mr. Saltram that upon this point at least her lover had indulged in no loverlike exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [Fenton's Quest] Reference
And so it was George Fairfax -- the bridegroom that was to have been -- who kissed your hand just now, in that loverlike fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
His coming back to her after the departure of the guests last night shone on him in splendid colours of single-minded loverlike devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
They were in good spirits now, and for the rest of the evening were as loverlike as always, the nearer together for the bit of rough sea they had weathered so nicely. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
But he wasn’t smiling a loverlike sort of smile, he was... scowling!. From Wordnik.com. [The Laird Who Loved Me] Reference
And with that pure flush of hope, she’d expected a dramatic, loverlike gesture from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Laird Who Loved Me] Reference
The passion of father for daughter, of mother for son ” there is often something very loverlike in it ” a deal of whimsy!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great]
So possessive, so loverlike. From Wordnik.com. [My Soul to Keep] Reference
Nothing loverlike about those two. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
He did not impress her as loverlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Canyon] Reference
Jasper lost himself in a loverlike trance. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
Sometimes, loverlike, they strolled in that glen. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference
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