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Love-sick

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Love´-sick`
a.1.Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid.
To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind.
- Dryden.
2.Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.
Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing.
- Dryden.


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so comforting to the love-sick young sprig who looks down patronizingly at some poor devil with a white starved face and thinks to himself, "Ah, how happy you are compared with me
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
She was not the ravishing creature that his love-sick fancy saw, but she had a grave comeliness.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
was all that I could say for many a moment, as I stood there gazing into her dear eyes, no hero in my heroic hour, but the bigger love-sick fool than ever.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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