"Light-o'-love" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you cannot escape the destiny of all queens. The day will come when you long to be treated as a light-o'-love, to be mastered and swept off your feet by a strong man, one who will not prostrate himself in adoration before you, but will seize your arm roughly in a fit of jealousy. Macumer loves you too fondly ever to ...
— Letters of Two Brides • Honore de Balzac
... my veteran light-o'-love! In deeming thee mere man, I wronged thy sire: some Satyr he, or ...
— Theocritus • Theocritus
... with a light-o'-love. One Whitsuntide he went a jaunt with two other young fellows, on horseback, to Matlock and thence to Bakewell. Matlock was at that time just becoming a famous beauty-spot, visited from Manchester and from the Staffordshire towns. In the hotel where the young men took lunch, were two girls, ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... there was a time when such hunger used to gnaw at my belly as you would never believe. It was then that my eyes became dazzled with the tokens of shame. So I took my fill of love, as does every woman. And once a woman has become a light-o'-love she may as well doff her shift altogether, and use the body which God has given her. And, after all, an independent life is the best life; so I hawk myself about like a pot of beer, and say, 'Drink of this, anyone who likes, ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky
... Christie; "play surprise as well as you will, you must have some guess that I am speaking of the poor fool that was my wife, till she became your lordship's light-o'-love." ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott |
