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The countenance is finely wrought, and marks the innocency and candor of the young heart; the open brow, the love-lighted eye, all exemplifying characteristics of that period of life, untrammelled with care or anxious thought.
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We have love-lighted looks, we have work, we have books,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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Like a love-lighted watchfire, all night at the gate.
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous
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But do thou, my love, retire; the cold morn and fitful breeze will make thy cheek pale, and fill with languor thy love-lighted eyes.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Hurrah for the thistle, &c. Round the love-lighted hames o 'our ain native land --
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Though I pressed my hot fingers against my close-shut eyes, I still could see my poor love's white, set face, the great hollows in his bearded cheeks, the blue veins on his thin temples, and the large eyes, one moment all love-lighted, the next, stricken with horror at the sight of my unfaith.
Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock
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He and the tired woman with the love-lighted eyes had been staying in there together having such a dreamy, comfy time talking and crooning to each other; and he had builded a grand vision of the outside, sunshiny place where the birds sang and flowers wafted faint perfumery.
Idle Comments 1905
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For, after all, who can gauge the importance of the first world-impression on the tiny soul -- just out from Heaven and soon to creep out from the love-lighted eyes?
Idle Comments 1905
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Now she was close, so close that he could see her lips parted, and her eyes love-lighted -- like nothing in the world but darkness wild with dew and starlight.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Now she was close, so close that he could see her lips parted, and her eyes love-lighted -- like nothing in the world but darkness wild with dew and starlight.
The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900
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