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Beneath the rugged bark May'st thou mute inward sighings mark, And wilt thou graceless be Less than a vine or tree— To keep thyself unloving, loverless?

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

The Yarucaris of Bolivia say that a girl once bewailed in the forest her loverless estate.

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew

During the greater part of dinner she was sitting speechless,—not only loverless, but manless.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

Though she was fatherless and motherless, and loverless and friendless, I let her for himself, was willing she should go where no The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections.

From The Forsaken Inn A Novel by Green, Anna Katharine