love arrows
Americanplural noun
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When one of the brides announces this tidbit at her wedding, it makes the newspaper's society column, and strangers start phoning Kate, asking her to shoot some love arrows their way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Being eternally modelled, fitted, fore-ordained, and predestined for each other, love arrows would, of course, have pierced our centres of palpitation at the first mutual glance.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
This was the god of Love, who roamed the world shooting his love arrows at the hearts of men and women, making them love each other.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
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