Her next move was a bungling conspiracy with her lover to poison her husband.
The first question the lover is asked after knocking at the door, when the parents are supposed to be in bed, is, 'Have you any gingerbread?
Even the girl's parents allow her to go about with her lover without asking any questions.
She delighted in the original, the unexpected, and nothing, certainly, could be more foreign to the customary betrothal night entertainment than this ponderous pairing of words between her lover and her uncle.
He had nothing of the generous and noble spirit of a conjointlover of man and of God, as the higher spirits of all times have developed it.
The ardent loverhad sought to prepare his way for a speedy marriage by trying to procure a priest to baptize the maiden.
I had been reveling in a species of indulgence, imagining I was a great lover of nature, building poetical illusions over storm-beaten peaks.
I could not stifle a rush of feeling, for I was a lover of the beautiful first, and a hunter secondly; but I steadied down as the front sight moved into the notch through which I saw the black and white of his shoulder.
A forlornlover might be unable to dissociate the moon from lost love; so the materialist is unable to dissociate the moon from the tide.
A lover does not give a girl a necklace to hide her neck.
But she likes a man to be a man, and to be an ardent loverif he be a lover at all, and her favorite cousin seems to her to wear a poor aspect in this page of his autobiography.
Usk discourses of Achnalorrie with breathless eloquence, as of a lover eulogizing the charms of a mistress forever lost to him.
Nobody could go on being such a lover as Piero was.
His temper was ruffled, and his mind in great irritation against his late companion: he felt angrily that he must have appeared a poltroon and a poor and unmanly lover in the eyes of the churchman.
And yet the idea grew and grew in the mind of Generosa's lover until it acquired all the force of an actual conviction.
Oh, I meant to say this: you are only lamenting, as a special defalcation and disloyalty in San Zenone, what is merely his unconscious and involuntary and perfectly natural alteration from a loverinto a husband.
Her lovermarried her, and they went to live in his own country in the Lombard plains, and were happy and prosperous, and the village of Marca and the waters of its cane-shadowed stream knew them no more.
Her lover had crept from her couch as she lay sleeping, and had sailed away with his comrades, noiselessly, before the sun rose and woke her.
I was that old man--I am now the lover long seeking a bride.
Of course, the sight of their lover excited the two girls.
The adoring all-resigning lover is then become the exacting married man, who will be waited on and obeyed.
Rather too audible a kiss suddenly turned all eyes on the Candidate and Louise; the latter of whom was punishing her lover for his daring by a highly ungracious and indignant glance, which Henrik declared quite pulverised him.
Her father went towards her with open arms, called her sweet names, placed her on the sofa by her mother, and took her tea to her himself: a lover could not have been more tender or more attentive to her.
Letty drew her lover into the fireless room; she had blown out the candles and turned the lamp low again, fearful lest her face should display signs calling for comment.
Her brown hair was very soft and fine; a lover of another kind would have pressed his lips upon it.
Like myself he was a great lover of Dickens, and I think his most prized possession was a small bookcase which had belonged to Dickens' study and which he purchased at the sale at Gad's Hill.
He being more musical, and a greater lover of the drama than I, arranged our visits to the theatres and concert halls.
I have known horses drop their hind legs on places scarcely affording foothold for a goat, but in all such feats they have been ridden by a lover of the animal, who trusts it implicitly, and rules by kindness rather than fear.
You cannot too early impress on the hunt servants that you are a lover of the animal, most averse to interfering with it at all times, and especially in the ardour of the chase.
In large woods, amongst secluded hills, or wild tracts of moor intersected by impracticable ravines, a lover of the chase is compelled by force of circumstances to depend on his own eyes, ears, and general intelligence for his amusement.
There is no greater treat to a lover of the chase than to watch a pack of high-bred fox-hounds that have been running hard on pasture, brought suddenly to a check on the dusty sun-dried fallows.
Consequently, any duel between some lover assisted by only one dog, and the dog-breaker defended by his pack, was impossible.
Then he went back to bed in despair, reflecting that her lover would also lie, no doubt!
If she had been the lover of another man before marriage, if she had belonged to some one else besides me, it could only have been from love, without altogether knowing what she wanted or what she was doing!
Ten men subscribe together to keep a mistress just as they do to possess a race horse, which only one jockey mounts, and this is a correct picture of the favored lover who does not pay anything.
Still, he had had such leisure to taste the full sweetness of every small successive conquest on which a lover feeds his love, that these had come to be matters of use and wont.
When a woman is very much in love, and has not seen her lover for two months, such a swift moment must be something like the phase of a dream when the eyes embrace a world that stretches away forever.
Dear angel, has a plighted loverno privilege whatsoever?
Embarrassed like a young lover who cannot dare to believe that his idol can stoop so low, he hesitated for a long time.
To end the combat Paquita threw between the legs of her lover a cushion which made him fall, and profited by the respite which this advantage gave to her, to push the button of the spring which caused the bell to ring.
But, monsieur, it is in the worst possible taste of a plighted lover or a wedded husband to break in like this upon his wife.
And those lesser powers were delighted to take a lover away from Mme de Langeais.
Onlookers know the rejected lover by various signs and tokens; they never mistake the genuine symptoms for a coolness such as some women command their adorers to feign, in the hope of concealing their love.
If a musician must needs have the heart of a poet, must not the listener too be in a manner a poet and a lover to hear all that lies in great music?
The mulatto, who had not ceased to gaze at the lover of Paquita Valdes with magnetic attention, went away, followed by the interpreter.
A jealous lover supposes everything; and it is by supposing everything and selecting the most probable of their conjectures that judges, spies, lovers, and observers get at the truth they are looking for.
Then on a sudden, high notes rang out like the voices of angels singing together, as if to tell the lost but not forgotten lover that their spirits now could only meet in heaven.
A young lady will come here to-morrow-morning at half-past nine o'clock, to talk with this lover of your daughter.
He had been about to give his sanction to the marriage, so certified had he been of the fact, and now he learnt that this imputed lover of Eleanor's was at any rate as much disliked by her as by any one of the family.
She was a basilisk from whom an ardent lover of beauty could make no escape.
It had been told of her that on one occasion she had stood by in the disguise of a page and had seen her lover fall.
The idea that she could be thought by her friends to regard Mr. Slope as a lover had never flashed upon her.
And as for a second black-coated lover of mine, I am going to make a present of him to another lady with most singular disinterestedness.
She thought of this man, this lover of whom she was so unconscious, exactly as her father did, exactly as the Grantlys did.
His position as a man of wealth might make his alliance of value, but as a lover he was very second-rate.
But, to tell the truth, she liked Bertie nearly as well; she had no more idea of regarding him as a lover than she would have had of looking at a big tame dog in such a light.
What treatment could she have anticipated at the hands of herlover save that she had received?
At twelve next day Fanny received her lover alone in the drawing-room.
Fanny, having supped much to her satisfaction, had a high colour, and treated her lover with more than usual insolence.
To-day her water is salt, not sweet, and no more does her lover Alpheus bubble up beside her in the Bay.
Many of even the younger adults remembered well when she had been "one of the hands on the place," and a passionatelover of the African dance.
The unseasonable numerals which the meteorologist recorded in his tables might have provoked a superstitious lover of better weather to suppose that Monsieur Danny, the head imp of discord, had been among the aërial currents.
If she found the lover ever, With his red-roan steed of steeds, Sooth I know not!
And the steed it shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath, And the lute he plays upon Shall strike ladies into trouble, As his sword strikes men to death.
We bear the corpse of Giles Collins, An old and true lover of yours.
Self-accusations may sometimes be evolved with the idea of gaining directly practical results, as when a lover or a comrade is shielded, or when there is danger of a larger crime being fastened on the self-incriminator.
She says she had lived no specially imaginative life beyond occasionally thinking of herself as a well-to-do lady with many good clothes to wear, or sometimes lying in bed and imagining she had a lover there.
Later she returned to her former tactics, she set fire to a house, cut off a cow's udder, and accused her former lover of these deeds.
She started off on a story of how another young man was accused, but no evidence was forthcoming about him, and soon afterward her lover died.
A very complicated case was that of a girl who had been rejected in marriage after the discovery by her lover that she had attacks of major hysteria.
A lover could not but be pleased at such ingenuity in his affianced bride; but it spoiled his invention!
I am an Irishman by birth, an American by adoption; by nature a lover of freedom--an enemy to the power that holds my native land in the bonds of tyranny.
Terrible must have been the shock to her gentle nature when her patriot lover was borne off a convict, and shipped for England's penal settlements in the far southern seas.
He is the Hearer, the Answerer and the Loverof importunate prayer.
We may assert with all possible confidence that every true lover of Christ will delight to be found where He has promised to be.
