Amours

Though he did not remain by the carriage two minutes, Zuleika was ready to take an affidavit that he was there for half an hour; and was saluted by a satanical grin from Vincent, who by this time had returned to her carriage side, and was humming a French tune, which says that "_on revient toujours à ses premi-è-res amours, à se-es premières amours_." ❋ Various (N/A)

For a time, with his chosen friends, such as Fox and Sheridan, he ventured into reckless intrigues that recalled the amours of his predecessor, Charles II. ❋ Lyndon Orr (N/A)

But dress, dancing bouts, and the necessary entertainments for carrying on his amours were the follies which involved him in these expenses, for the supply of which he thus hazarded his soul and forfeited his life. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)

He was in those days a cardinal of the order of deacons, and only in his later career a priest, which fact is sometimes made the excuse for his frank and notorious disregard of the rule of chastity, nor did he seem to be concerned that his amours were the common gossip of Rome. ❋ Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 (1901)

He was so extremely timid that he never had had the audacity to tell the girl at the glove counter that he preferred bronze-green gloves, nor the boldness to show Maria Gerard his poems composed in her honor, in which he now always put the plural "amours," so as to make it rhyme with ❋ Various (N/A)

Can we then blame harmony and melody for the humming-bird "amours" of the Abbe Liszt, -- for the many women he made material love to from his early youth, -- for the very dubious honesty of his bearing toward the Comtesse d'Agoult and the Princess Wittgenstein, with whom he debated the formalities of marriage without hesitating over the actualities? ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

Only a few of his own profession remembered him as one who might have been great had he not been so little; -- and a few women laughed lightly, recalling the legion of his "amours", and said, "Ce pauvre coquin, Miraudin!" ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

Many changes and additions were made by the author in the successive editions; in fact only twenty of the fifty-one "amours" in _Idea's Mirrour_ escaped the winnowing, while the famous sixty-first appears for the first time in 1619. ❋ William Smith (1597)

"amours" are spoken of, though with the limitation that "they were not numerous, scandalous, or degrading." ❋ Various (N/A)

"amours," the "affairs of the heart," that he can sustain at the same time. ❋ Ambrose Shepherd (N/A)

"amours" among barmaids and the women of the streets; they were simply awful. ❋ Harris, Frank (1910)

Comme les vendanges, les amours tardives sont les plus délicieuses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Comme les vendanges, les amours tardives* sont les plus délicieuses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a moment that seemed too real, and too spontaneous to be a product of their drawn out amours, he took her hand. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is no necessity for bringing in the amours of Mr.St. Vincent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her treachery alone could be relied upon, and her wild-wood amours attested her general depravity. ❋ Unknown (2010)