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"Hans, you're a fool!" said the stranger; and his enamorata concurred in the opinion.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various
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One evening when Quintin called, as usual, to take his enamorata for
The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer
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Had he shewn any compunction, I would not for a moment have hesitated to have offered him consolation, and assurances of my forgiveness; but of neither was he in any degree solicitous; and I verily believe, so much was he employed in the study of his enamorata, that he totally forgot that there was such a being as myself existing.
The Old Woman 1800
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And the aukward attempts I made to detach myself from my enamorata, as they proved unsuccessful, so they served to excite a general smile.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian William Godwin 1796
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If then the Argus eyes of an enamorata» whofe vanity kept pace with his paffion, attempted unfuccefsfulLy to fee into her heart, how vain was that hope in others; mnd fhe would probably have carried her paifion undifcovered along with her to the grave, had not deftiny, or, more pro* perly fpeaking, chance, revealed the Secret for her.
Letters from Henrietta to Morvina. Interspersed with Anecdotes, Historical and Amusing, of the ... 1777
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