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"The fact is, the whole ship's in love; even the lower deck is off its feed; the boatswain says they're messing up the rigging with true-lovers' knots, and I'm told the marines are writing poetry." "Ah, if it had been anyone but him!" exclaimed the captain. "It's horrible to call him a deserter," said Francis. "Don't let's do it," said the captain.
Those little, quaint, valueless ornaments, those true-lovers' knots, those oval lockets, those battered rings, girdled by initials, or some brief inscription of regard or of grief, what tales of past affections, hopes, and sorrows do they not tell!
'Oh dear! what a move was there! cried Lady Catharine. 'Miss Broadhurst is so entertaining to-night, notwithstanding her sore throat, that one can positively attend to nothing else. And she talks of love and lovers too with such CONNAISSANCE DE FAIT counts her lovers by dozens, tied up in true-lovers' knots! 'Lovers! no, no! Did I say lovers? suitors I should have said.
Those little, quaint, valueless ornaments, those true-lovers' knots, those oval lockets, those battered rings, girdled by initials, or some brief inscription of regard or of grief, what tales of past affections, hopes, and sorrows do they not tell!
IN alternate storm and sunshine their lives passed on, until the appointed day arrived that was to see them bound, not by the graceful true-lovers' knot, which either might untie, but by a chain light as downy fetters if borne in mutual love, and galling as ponderous iron links, if heart answered not heart and the chafing spirit struggled to get free.
It was set with an emerald of great size and beauty, of a heart-shape, surrounded by diamonds, and at the top a true-lovers' knot in diamonds. He put it on my finger, saying that he had carried it about with him for a month or more, and that he had paid a pretty price for it. It was an antique ring and the workmanship very beautiful, not like those made nowadays.
No! let us keep the Unseen or, if it must be discovered, let the key thereof be given only to true-lovers and poets. No one is so hopelessly wrong about the stars as the astronomer, and I trust that you never pay any attention to his remarks on the moon. He knows as much about the moon as a coiffeur knows of the dreams of the fair lady whose beautiful neck he makes still more beautiful.
written in as many different ways as true-lovers' knots could run. She took leave of the cottagers with a princely gift. The islanders of Ebuda had deprived her of every thing valuable but a rich bracelet, which, for some strange, perhaps superstitious, reason, they left on her arm. This she took off, and made a present of it to the good couple for their hospitality; and so bade them farewell.
The salvers afford a splendid surface for a monogram, which is now copied from the old Dutch silver, and bears many a true-lovers' knot, and every sort and kind of ornamentation; sometimes even a little verse, or posy, as it was called in olden time.
"I will have them copied and sent to your bedroom, Betty. Then if you decide to join, you will be admitted formally this day week, and will receive the badge of the Specialities a little true-lovers' knot made of silver which you will wear when the Specialities give their entertainments, and which will remind you that we are bound together in one sisterhood of love for our fellow-creatures."
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