love-lay

The answer came within the minute: a sound sweeter to savage ears than love-lay of the maidens, than war-song of the braves, than even the wild, triumphant chorus of the scalp-dance; a sound that suddenly rose for a moment above the clamor of the squaws, and then was answered and overwhelmed and drowned in mad, exultant, even fiendish, yells of delight -- it was the scream of a strong man in awful agony.

To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Charles King 1888

"How simp-lay love-lay!" drawled Christabel, with the languid elegance of manner for which she was distinguished; and Agatha beamed broadly all over her good-humoured face, oblivious of the sufferings of the poor in the prospect of her own amusement.

A Houseful of Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887

The casement window was wide open, so that the sweet breath of the June roses could steal in, and with it the weird tremolo of a nightingale singing its love-lay in an adjoining copse.

As We Sweep Through The Deep Gordon Stables 1875

One of these birds perched upon a branch, and pouring forth its love-lay in loud passionate strain, breaks off at sight of them.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

It is asserted that Love is blind; and on the strength of that popular delusion novel heroes and heroines go blundering through three volumes of despair with the plain truth directly under their absurd noses: but in real life this theory is not supported; for to a living man the countenance of a loving woman is more eloquent than any language, more trustworthy than a world of proverbs, more beautiful than the sweetest love-lay ever sung.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various