174 examples of jilted in sentences

"If I were a man," continued the belle, "I would never think of a young woman who had once jilted a lover.

But with such a confederacy against her as that formed by her mother and Elinorwith a knowledge so intimate of Colonel Brandon's goodnesswhat could she do? As for Elinor, her self-control was at last rewarded, thanks to a strange volte-face on the part of Lucy Steele who, finding that Robert Ferrars had the money, married him and jilted his brother.

Alla, as soon as the door closed, realized that she had been jilted, and resolving not to be canned without a struggle, she threw on her pony coat over her kimono, and pinning her hat roguishly over one ear, she fled the snare and ran down eight flights of steps into the street, with two coon bell boys after her.

Hannah was never married, which was not her fault, for she was jilted by the man she loved,for whom, however, she is said to have retained a friendly feeling to the last.

We talk of jilted lovers and disappointed girls marrying 'out of spite.'

Bob Crump, for instance, had been jilted on the very morning he had arranged for his wedding, but instead of going about in a state of gentle melancholy he went round and fought his beloved's fathermerely because it was her fatherand wound up an exciting day by selling off his household goods to the highest bidders.

It is not a disgrace to a man to be jilted; it is to a woman.

For a woman to be jilted is for her to have failed,as a woman; and for a woman to have failed as a woman is for her to value no other success.

She had jilted the unlucky youth and sent him in utter recklessness on his intentionally suicidal ascent.

And well might this trunk make Mr. Hardingham melancholy, for it was the receptacle of letters and little gifts of a lady who had jilted him in early life; and upon whom he had often vowed vengeance.

It was the opportunity of Mary Brown's life, for even as Harry and I had decided, so had all the other jilted swains, but that curious girl either could not or would not grasp it.

And in any case, how shall we explain the influence of music in the life of Wagner's rival for supremacy, Johannes Brahms, a confirmed bachelor; or his other contemporary, Tschaikovski, who, after a normal love affair with a singer, Desirée Artôt, who jilted him, eventually married a girl by whom he seemed to have been deeply loved, without feeling any return?

When Philtra saw that the property of Amidas was daily increasing, she forsook the elder brother and married the wealthier; while Lucy, seeing herself jilted, threw herself into the sea.

AU´DREY, a country wench, who jilted William for Touchstone.

"Why, in my young days, if I had been jilted, and come down to see about it, d'you think I'd have gone out of the house without seeing her?

Fame has jilted me once.

CHAPTER VII JILTED Mrs. Ranger consented to a third girl, to do the additional heavy work; but a nurseno!

To have been jilted would have been intolerable.

I suppose a man has some rights under his own roof, and when his guest is jilted before his eyes'here Mr. Pomeroy frowned like Jove'it is well you should know, ma'am, that a woman no more than a man can play fast and loose at pleasure.

Charming but faithless, Krishna is now pursuing other girls and the jilted Radha wanders alone.

Heckewelder reports instances of Indians who took their own lives because the girls they loved and were engaged to jilted them and married other men.

I must further acquaint you, that before I Jilted him, there had been the greatest Intimacy between us for an Year and half together, during all which time I cherished his Hopes, and indulged his Flame.

A man so fortunate as to be jilted or rejected finds his Beloved remaining beautiful and young to him when her husband sees her an unwieldy and wearisome old woman.

A ball-room; the sounds of music; the one man she had cared for insulting her with the flaunting ostentation of his unfaithfulness; herself despised, put aside, laughed at, or worse, jilted.

Her distraction was extreme: she hinted that she would follow him to Russia; she threatened, and perhaps attempted, suicide; she went about telling everybody that he had jilted her.

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