love arrows
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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A moonbeam falling athwart her face revealed her unequaled loveliness, and made Cupid start back in surprise; but, as he did so, one of his own love arrows came into contact with his rosy flesh, and inflicted a wound, from which he was to suffer for many a weary day.
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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.
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In the morning most wondrous, the heart of her lord was smitten with arrows of Love, arrows which went through his eyes, Arrows which were her nailed-scratched bosom, her reddened sleep-denied eyes, her crimson lips from a bath of kisses, her hair disarranged with the flowers awry, and her girdle all loose and slipping.
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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.
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