love-token

Apparently the Lady feels a bit flirtatious; perhaps she is giving him a little love-token.

Seduction and Guillaume de Lorris's Romance of the Rose 2005

Apparently the Lady feels a bit flirtatious; perhaps she is giving him a little love-token.

Archive 2005-02-01 2005

“Had we lingered near the spot, we had found it a love-token with a vengeance.”

Kenilworth 2004

I supposed it must be some old love-token, till he reminded me he was a botanist.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

Prompted by greed, Borodaty bent down to strip off the rich armour, and had already secured the Turkish knife set with precious stones, and taken from the foe's belt a purse of ducats, and from his breast a silver case containing a maiden's curl, cherished tenderly as a love-token.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

He could not explain to Lisle that to request that Lydia's love-token might be removed would have seemed to him to be like going down to her level and rejecting what he preferred to ignore.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

Observing the name of Shadrach, he felt sure it must have come from Gussie; no one else knew his second name, so she must have sent this sweet love-token.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

Had she some such love-token on her neck as the old Don's revolver had left on his?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

The idea of the sacredness of a ring as a love-token is voiced by

Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from George Frederick Kunz

A gentleman of the name of Kooloo fixed his affections upon Typee -- or rather upon his goods and chattels; for when he had wheedled him out of a regatta shirt, and other small pieces of finery, he transferred his affections to a newly-arrived sailor, whose chest was better lined, and who bestowed on him a love-token, in the shape of a heavy pea-jacket.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various