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Examples
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Beautifully feathered — but extremely annoyed — this was his solemn love-gift.
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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She still wore the diaphanous love-gift robes the Queen's attendants had dressed her in the night before.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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Now Nodonn held high the book-plaque that had been Bryan's love-gift to Mercy.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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The Master of the Royal Bed gestured and a gray-torc valet came up to wrap the shivering love-gift manquee in a robe of white satin.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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I had trouble to escape from wearing Anthemion's party robe, red with embroidered borders, a love-gift from Anaxis.
The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966
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I started the hypothesis that Mamusa might once have had a _tendresse_ for the old gentleman, and might have bestowed these cows upon him as a love-gift; but this idea was scouted, even by the defendant, who said gravely,
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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Her friend was sitting by the window, -- waiting, -- not for her; and when she went in to her, it was silently, with no mention of her errand or her love-gift.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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Some faint touch of refinement told her that she should not take money for what she had meant as a love-gift.
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You may put together all these illustrations in the attempt to get a real, close-up, idea of what Jesus meant in that love-gift of His to you.
Quiet Talks on Power S.D. Gordon
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This old house, this old room; the very chair she sat in, with its high back and straight arms; the floor, black with age, uneven from the passing of the generations — all made a setting for the man who had brought her here to choose a love-gift for another woman.
Lonesome Road Wentworth, Patricia 1939
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