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Example sentences for "for love"

  • Had she so fully realised and shared an unchanged, longed-for love, that now she lay dying on her bed in her cell?

  • The regret was not love, but it was certainly akin to other feelings which prepare the way for love.

  • When you keep yourselves back from doing a wrong thing, because you know it is wrong, is it for love of heaven, or for mere fear of being punished in hell?

  • And then he sums up what doing right is, in one short sentence: "Love thy neighbour as thyself; for love is the fulfilling of the law.

  • Deem what thou wilt of us, for love * By calumnies the sweeter is Nor after this care I one jot * Whether my foe be known or not.

  • Dame Helen caused a grievous fray, For love of her brave men did fight, The eyes of her made sages fey And put their hearts in woeful plight.

  • May God not lighten my heart of passion for her I love Nor ease my eyelids, for love, of wakefulness in my youth!

  • Alack, for love of thee, the ways are straitened all on me; So that I know not where I go nor any issue see!

  • Life without her was not life; and they had only one life for love--one summer.

  • Is it not natural that Youth about to die should yearn for pleasure, for love, for union, before death?

  • For love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

  • For love is the light by which we see God, by which we understand his Bible; by which we understand our duty, and God's dealings, in the world.

  • For love's an ill as light as air, Yet heavy as a stone; O, love is joy and love is care, A song and eke a groan.

  • And as for love-letters,--Mr. Burgess has written to me once.

  • Everything in this world and the next I will resign," he said--"for love of thee!

  • It can command all things save Love, for Love is of God and God is not subject to authority.

  • Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it--if a man would give all his substance for love it would be utterly contemned!

  • I said--"But you knew that was impossible, for Love is no dream!

  • But he overcame both, for love, as saith the scripture, cast out fear, and longing made toil light.

  • Poor heart, thy craving is for life, for love, for illusions!

  • We are athirst for the infinite--for love--for I know not what.

  • For love-sake, spare him; for Conscience-sake, forbear him!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for indeed; for the common benefit; for the greatest part; for this; for whom; foregone conclusion; foreign influence; foreign investment; foreign language; foreign merchants; foreign port; foreign prince; foreign wars; forest products; forget what; forgive sins; formed part; former journey; former lives; former occasions; former slave; former work; forty millions; people would; that she; upper parts