174 examples of jilting in sentences

Why, Sirif her Maid will be a jilting Whore, how can I help it?Sharp, thou know'st we presented her handsomly, and she protested she'd do't.

Ay, there's his Grief; there is some jilting Hussy has drawn him in; but I'll revenge my self on both.

Most damnably,and wou'd fain lie with the dear jilting Gipsy.

The Nymph no longer shall be shy, But leave the jilting Road; And Daphne now no more shall fly The wounded panting God; But all shall be serene and fair, No sad Complaints of Love Shall fill the gentle whispering Air, No echoing Sighs the Grove.

He introduced the Play called the Younger Brother, or the Amorous Jilt; written by Mrs. Behn, but not brought upon the stage 'till after her decease.

He has borrowed very liberally from a play of Mrs. Behn's called The Amorous Jilt. 22.

'There are many lines (says Jacob) in this play, above the genius which generally appears in the other works of this author; but he has perverted the characters of Ovid, in making Daphne, the chaste favourite of Diana, a whore, and a jilt; and fair Syrene to lose her reputation, in the unknown ignominy of an envious, mercenary, infamous woman.'

I. The Distrest Orphan, The City Jilt, The Double Marriage, Letters from the Palace of Fame, The Lady's Philosopher's Stone; Vol. II.

7. The City Jilt: or, the Alderman turn'd Beau.

June 24 The City Jilt.

Do you mean to tell me that Lord Maulevrier's sister, a young lady under my charge, answerable to me for her conduct, is capable of jilting the man to whom she has solemnly bound herself, in order to marry you?' demanded Lady Kirkbank, turning to Montesma.

As for Mr. Smithson, why should I have any more compunction about jilting him than he had about that poor Miss Trinder? By-the-bye, I want you to send him back all his presents for me.

As for Aloysia, she had cause enough to regret jilting one of the greatest, as well as one of the most gentle, souls in the world.

Our Fortunes indeed, weighed in the nice Scale of Interest, are not exactly equal, which by the way was the true Case of my Jilting him, and I had the Assurance to acquaint him with the following Maxim, That I should always believe that Man's Passion to be the most Violent, who could offer me the largest Settlement.

"Jilting me, and then taunting me of my failure!

He says the reazon the Chane Stores have such a pull with the public is becuase the man behine the counter is not all the time jilting you in the middle of your order & chacing off to be sweet to some sosciety dame with a dog 4 miles away.

Thus, tilting here and jilting there, He fought a foe or he fooled a fair, But little recking how; So deadly smooth, so cruel and vain, He might have made a capital Cain, Or a splendid dandy now.

"Lycoris, doubtless, was a jilting baggage, but why should Mr. D. belie her?

There existed at the time only the little sketch, "The Jilting of Jane," included in this volumeat least, that is the only tolerable fragment of fiction I find surviving from my pre-Lewis-Hind period.

I. THE JILTING OF JANE II.

THE BEAUTIFUL SUIT I. THE JILTING OF JANE.

Our Fortunes indeed, weighed in the nice Scale of Interest, are not exactly equal, which by the way was the true Case of my Jilting him, and I had the Assurance to acquaint him with the following Maxim, That I should always believe that Man's Passion to be the most Violent, who could offer me the largest Settlement.

Would I, her daughter, break my word, would I dishonour myself by jilting a man I had pledged myself to marry?

Where women were concerned he had what is called "a way" with him, and from the extent and variety of his female acquaintance, and the evident tenderness with which the majority of them regarded him, I am inclined to hope that Amenda's desertion of him (which happened contemporaneously with her jilting of the cheesemonger) caused him less prolonged suffering than might otherwise have been the case.

By this course he in nowise compromises either himself or the lady; but leaves open to both, at any future period, an opportunity of retiring from the position of courtship taken up on the one side, and of receiving addresses on the other, without laying either party open to the accusation of fickleness or jilting.

174 examples of  jilting  in sentences