lover-like

They leaned against each other at the hearth; lover-like, they smiled and turned about to look at the room.

Dearly Beloved 2010

While these lover-like thoughts were passing through his brain, the armourer loitered in his pace, often turning his eyes eastward, and eyeing the firmament, in which no slight shades of grey were beginning to flicker, to announce the approach of dawn, however distant, which, to the impatience of the stout armourer, seemed on that morning to abstain longer than usual from occupying her eastern barbican.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Overcome by the remembrance of his gallant speeches and his lover-like behavior, he felt unable to disown them or to change his course.

A Marriage Contract 2007

Yet in all her movements, however alluring, whether we stood or whether we walked, there was nothing either tender or lover-like.

The Magic Skin 2007

At last they came down the walk that I was coming up, hand-inhand, lover-like.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She moved closer to Richard, patted his cheek tenderly, and said in a low purring voice, “Thank you, chérie, for the chain,” and promptly kissed him on the mouth in what she hoped was a lover-like manner.

Captive of My Desires Johanna Lindsey 2006

She could not have beto so deeply affected, had not some lover-like arts

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

I was of an age, and a turn [the insolent said] to be fond of a lover-like distress: and my grief (which she pleaded) would never break my heart: I should sooner break that of the best and most indulgent of mothers.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

See, also, how unfairly my brother and sister must have represented their pretended kindness, when (though the had an end to answer by appearing kind) their antipathy to me seems to have been so strong, that they could not help insulting me by their arm-inarm lover-like behaviour to each other; as my sister afterwards likewise did, when she came to borrow my Kempis.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

After that Mrs French gave out the tea, Arabella curled herself upon the sofa as though she were asleep, and the two lovers settled down to proper lover-like conversation.

He Knew He Was Right 2004