He is about to take his life with his sword; but Amor suddenly appears upon the scene, stays his hand, and tells him the gods are moved by his sufferings.
Vincit amor patriæ=--The love of our country outweighs all other considerations.
Militiæ species amor est=--Love is a kind of warfare.
In furias ignemque ruunt; amor omnibus idem=--They rush into the flames of passion; love is the same in all.
Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit=--The love of money increases as wealth increases.
Yet as it exceeds our natural faculties, "it is not in us by nature, nor acquired through our natural powers; but through the infusion of the Holy Spirit, who is the amor Patris et Filii.
Moreover, amor may be divided into amor amicitiae, whereby we wish good to the amicus, and amor concupiscentiae, whereby properly we desire a good to ourselves.
Many more words I was moved to speak to him, though I was then so weak, I could scarcely stand, and within a few days after, Amor died.
The very next year saw Fox back in Cambridgeshire once more; and again Amor Stoddart was with him, standing by his side and sharing all dangers like a valiant and faithful friend.
The first meeting between Captain Amor Stoddart and him who was to be thereafter his spirit's earthly captain in the new strange warfare that lay before him, happened on this wise.
George Fox was not the only man to find a faithful and staunch supporter in Amor Stoddart.
If Amor Stoddart had unbuckled his sword, evidently he had not lost the power of grappling with difficulties, of swiftly seeing the right thing to do, and of giving his orders with soldier-like precision.
Eleven years after this pass in almost complete silence, as far as Amor is concerned.
George Fox's words may seem perhaps mysterious to us now, but they came home to Amor and made him able to see something of the same vision that Fox saw.
Nevertheless, without Amor Stoddart the sheep would have gone away hungry, and would not have been fed at that meeting.
Then he appears again at George Fox's side, no longer Captain Stoddart the Officer, but plain Amor Stoddart, a comrade and helper of the first Publishers of Truth.
Again we hear of Amor a little later in the same year, still at George Fox's side, but this time not as a passive spectator, nor even merely as a resourceful comrade.
Amor was educated at Stonyhurst, and has the soft, pleasant voice and delightful English of Mexicans who have passed young years in England.
Leclerq, Koch, and Nacho Amor are all cultivated, agreeable young men.
Then looking for a seal, he came upon the one "Amor nel cor.
Amor transfixes the poet's heart with his arrows, plants his foot upon the poet's neck, makes him his slave.
The god Amor and his mother Venus play important parts in the poems.
Which is much what Bernart de Ventadour has sung: "Per dieu, dona, pauc esplecham d'amor Va sen lo temps e perdem lo melhor.
If he had known the lover of Nina he would have changed the line into 'Amor che fa villan un cor gentile'.
Le veggio in fronte amor come in suo seggio Sul crin, negli occhi--su le labra amore Sol d'intorno al suo cuore amor non veggio.
You are best at colloquial, my pupil, so courage, and remember Amor Vincit Omnia and such like things.
It was not only Amor Vincit Omnia which showed on its pages, but many another similar work: Lost for Love, Govind Sahai, Kyasth.
Nevertheless, he dreamt dreams that night as he lay curled up on his short string bed, with the second volume of Amor Vincit Omnia under the quilt, so as to be ready for the early summer dawn.
But then, those boys, had not read Amor Vincit Omnia and learnt to mix sentiment with passion.
After which the boy, crossing to a double desk midway between the tables, wrote in the English register in a fine bold hand any clerk might have envied: Amor Vincit Omnia.
The exigencies of the case forbid explanation, but this much is admitted--that Amor vincit Omnia.
Happy enough, mother," he admitted, then felt Amor Vincit Omnia under his arm, and sighed.
Thou hast a nightmare," said his mother crossly, when just before daybreak he woke them all by sitting up in his bed and declaiming, Amor vincit Omnia in a loud voice.
As he spoke, he seated himself likewise on the parapet of the sewer, and read over the boy's shoulder, Amor Vincit Omnia.
A horrible stain of blood from the blood-vessel he had ruptured blotted the page, but through it you could still see, in his bold handwriting: Amor Vincit Omnia.
Andreas drew a distinction between base love, the amor mixtus sive communis, and pure love, the amor purus.
Guincelli's words characterising the second erotic stage of the race: Amor e cor gentil sono una cosa, to-day apply to the second stage in the life of the individual.
Amor and Cupid were regarded by the poets of the Middle Ages as two separate gods, both being the children of Venus.
Indeed, this is just what Gonçalves Dias himself has written: O amor que eu tanto amava de imo peito Que nunca pude achar.
In his study of Casimiro de Abreu Verissimo has some illuminating things to say of love and wistful longing (amor e saudade) in connection with the poet’s patriotism in especial and with love of country in general.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: affair; infidelity; intrigue; liaison; love; romance
