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_."

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

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.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2 Lyndon Orr

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.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

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.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

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.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

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.

The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864

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.

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735

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

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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?

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 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!"

The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889