light-of-love
- a variation of light-o'-love.
Example Sentences
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Triumphant virtue thumps splendidly in the chaste breast of Johanna Oakley, his faithful hoopskirted light-of-love; the gallant thorax of Colonel Jeffrey of the Indian Army, confidant and sub-hero.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is no maid, but a witch, a light-of-love, a blasphemer.
From The Path of the King by Buchan, John
You surely thought me faithless, to be banished As light-of-love and gambler, from your life, Because without a farewell word, you vanished And never will return, sweet-smiling wife.
From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa
Do you still refuse me in favour of a man who yields his heart to the first light-of-love who tempts him?
From Fair Margaret by Haggard, Henry Rider
The very man, skulking here, while his light-of-love is on her honeymoon, and the old dotard, his father, with his pockets full of English gold—” He said no more.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines
