191 Verbs to Use for the Word romances

Then the novelist said: "Why, no; if I were ever really to attempt a tale of Lichfield, I would not write a romance but a tragedy.

He liked to read romances of the days.

Now amuse yourself by weaving a romance out of them and their owner.

Katy," continued my aunt, after a little pause, with a smile and slight blush, "I have half a mind to tell you a little romance of my early days, when I was just your age.

He wants romance without its defiance, and humour without its sting; and the business of the novelist, he holds, is to supply this cooling refreshment.

Now let me sing you a romance.

He told of the days when Aunt Dide talked, and he affirmed that he had found her one morning singing a romance of her youth.

She fancied he was some exiled Jacobite, and was ready to hear a pitiful romance.

Altogether it would be hard to find a more delightful romance in any language, and it well deserves the place it has won as one of the classics of our literature.

We love romance, but we seek it in its true home.

At Coblentz, when you sat in the balcony, two young men overheard Amy sigh for adventures, and Helen advise making a romance out of the gloves one of the lads had dropped.

Now Betty, can you honestly see me trailing around after that girl who sees a romance in every bush and book and who cries when any one plays violin music?

Stevenson yielded to the charm that these words had for him, for he began a romance with the title, The Great North Road, which however, he never finished.

If iron takes the romance out of things, in a general way, as I mentioned at the beginning of this article my impression that it rather does, I know not whether primitive Lorette has not become sadly vulcanized into prosaic progress by the grand system of water-works established there for the benefit of Quebec.

Most of them, however, are occasional: "Strephon to Dalinda, on her forbidding him to speak of Love," "Orontes to Deanira, entreating her to give him a meeting," and many others in which both the proper names and the situations suggest the artificial romances.

What say you, Ambler?" "I don't know how much romance and adventure there usually are in police proceedings," replied Appleyard cautiously.

He threw aside the outgrown metrical romance, which was practically the only form of narrative in his day, invented the art of story-telling in verse, and brought it to a degree of perfection which has probably never since been equaled.

" "Where are we?" asked Amy, glad to move on, for the interview was becoming too personal even for her, and the stranger's manner fluttered her, though she enjoyed the romance of the adventure immensely.

His manner was of the world, worldly, and gave the idea of complete heartlessness and savoir faire; yet under this seemingly impervious covering lurked a womanly romance of temperament, a womanly tenderness of heart, than which nothing would have made him so angry as to be accused of possessing.

"Pertaining to or resembling romance, or an ideal state of things; partaking of the heroic, the marvellous, the supernatural, or the imaginative; chimerical, fanciful, extravagantly enthusiastic.

In 1798 Lamb, anxious for his sister's sake to add to his slender income, composed his "miniature romance," as Talfourd calls it, "Rosamund Gray;" and this little volume, which has not yet lost its charm, proved a moderate success.

That splendid young couple, about whom she had built up such a gorgeous romance, had been parted, and this handsome fellow with the kind smile and heroic shoulders was unhappy, far unhappier than Sara Wilkins had ever been, strange as that might seemhe who had looked so fortunate!

He begged me not to mention it, but I thought you'd like the romance of the thing.

In attempting to revitalize the materials and methods of the romances Mrs. Haywood was but following the lead of the French romancières, who had successfully invaded the field of prose fiction when the passing of the précieuse fashion and Boileau's influential ridicule had discredited the romance in the eyes of writers with classical predilections.

When she was a little girl in Boston (where Mrs. Merriam had insisted upon living), Angela used to sit on her father's knee; and as he curled her yellow hair over his fingers he wove romances of the Golden West, reluctantly deserted for his wife's sake; and though many illusions had broken like bright bubbles, this ideal still glittered before Angela's eyes.

191 Verbs to Use for the Word  romances