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Examples
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Now, I realize we men can't just all of the sudden up and start making love-talk like Victor Hugo.
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AI and Carmelo are talking love-talk before and after the game.
April 23rd, 2007 wheatland_press 2007
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She doesn't really have anything to do in this one other than speak the worst love-talk in cosmic history and be pregnant, so her performance isn't exactly scintillating.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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You think that the love-talk of a few weeks gives clearer instruction than the laborious reading of many volumes and thoughtful converse with thinking persons!
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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βIn my country we call that the beginning of love-talk.β
Kim 2003
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But Chaucer's friar is a wanton and merry scoundrel, taking every license, kissing the wives and talking love-talk to the girls in his wanderings, as he begs for his Church and his order.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Amilcare rattled on; love-talk comes easily to the Italian tongue, whose very vocables are caresses.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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It was a lonely road, and part of the way it went through the woods where the lately fallen snow lay in pure white sheets that were written all over with the tracks of birds, and rabbits and other wild animals; and the stillness of the great woods was so deep and solemn that our love-talk was silenced, and we rode on singing hymns.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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Thus she may see in the man going off to sleep in the midst of her love-talk, a gross and inattentive brute β and all because she has never shared the climax of his physical tension, and does not know that its natural reaction is sleep.
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She could understand it enough to know that it was love-talk, and then, breaking into this, came a sudden series of shrill, little, needle-like cries that fairly filled the hay-loft.
Understood Betsy 1917
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