Romeo and Juliet

Usage examples of lovers.

When she came to the Calori she told me that she had had several lovers out of whom she had made a great deal, but at present she had no lover, unless it were the violinist Giardini, with whom she was in love in earnest.

She thought very likely that you still loved me, and she imagined, for I know her well, that she could not give us a greater proof of her love than by procuring us, without forewarning us, that which two lovers fond of each other must wish for so ardently.

In refusing such an offer you could not have better reasons than those you give, and it would be absurd to try and persuade him that we are not lovers, as the thing is self-evident.

We did not find the time long, for two passionate lovers find plenty to talk about since their talk is of themselves.

I was not sorry for it, since as long as she did not trouble me any more I did not care how many lovers she had.

How many more discreet and less changing lovers have had the quality of constancy in change, to which this life-long correspondence bears witness?

The supper was delicious, and I was delighted with the excellent understanding the two lovers had already come to.

When we had gone some distance we saw the lovers, who had come out, in spite of the snow, to meet us.

After taking leave of this brave patriot, I went to Christianpol, where lived the famous palatin Potocki, who had been one of the lovers of the empress Anna Ivanovna.

I compassionated him, and took care not to comfort him by saying that love is a mere trifle--a cold piece of comfort given to lovers by fools, and, moreover, it is not true that love is a mere trifle.

He that loves letters should love all other lovers of letters, and in France that is the case, even more so than Italy.

Do you not know that, in moments of such rapture, lovers see and feel nothing but love?

As for me I was glad enough to have the matter over, but I felt vexed with Constantini for having fled without giving the lovers a lesson.

I began by becoming the friend of their lovers, and I often succeeded by pretending to be a man of whom nobody need be afraid.

During the last twenty-four hours we could boast of no other eloquence but that which finds expression in tears, in sobs, and in those hackneyed but energetic exclamations, which two happy lovers are sure to address to reason, when in its sternness it compels them to part from one another in the very height of their felicity.