Use "romance" in a sentence

1. Whatever what is, they are both shipboard romances

2. Forever cursed to be the third wheel on the blossoming countless romances Adrinius must have had

3. All the old romances turned dust-worthy

4. He loves women but never considers any of his romances serious

5. Darrell - Most of your books have been romances

6. Boon Romances in her lunch break

7. Bit of a worry that, reading romances

8. Although we barely had our intimate time together since our arrival from Los Angeles because of Nathan, our romances were still great

9. remembered when you were going on about your romances in tinsel

10. books and stories about triangular romances,

11. How many romances start not only by a chance meeting, but then by further happy coincidences, such as the sharing of an interest, the reciprocal appreciation of each other's unique beauty, the mundane practicalities of geography and working hours that allow for regular meetings, etcetera

12. She had problems with her relations with men, having a few failed marriages and some not so great romances with a few other guys

13. Romances are fine

14. Peace settled on the house in the afternoon when mother read her romances Romantzo and Theesavros sent out from Athens as journals printed on cheap paper

15. ‘’And what is wrong with teenage romances, Angelina?’’ Said Nancy Laplante, who had stayed a bit behind the family with her two pieces of luggage

16. His days of frivolous romances were over

17. have had a few alien romances?

18. She wondered whether this was how E-mail romances got started — hadn’t there been a film about that? She could see herself inventing the long blonde hair and the 36/22/36 figure she had wanted as a teenager

19. it’s “cheaper to keep her” (or him)] And even as I read the Harlequin romances or

20. He has his wits disordered by his devoted reading of chivalric romances and sets out in search of knightly adventures with his companion, Sancho Panza, whose short, fat appearance contrasts with that of Don Quixote

21. “Candace says not a day goes by, that Beau doesn’t bring her flowers or some kind of gift of love, not only as a means of atonement but because he feels he cheated her out of a proper romance by the way he acted back in college, and so he romances her on a daily basis

22. The only burgeoning romances taking place were the ones between Joel & Kathy and Falcon & Henrietta

23. The reason that there are millions of romances on bookshelves (and

24. “You know, this is how these office romances begin

25. romances, although they shine most brilliantly inoctaves; tercets

26. There are some things that happened in Blur that I want to address, as many people have questioned the ‘instant’ romances that took place in the story

27. Some one has said that the poetry of Spain, with theexception of the romances and the drama of

28. Herder'stranslation of some of the Cid romances and theSchlegel brothers' metrical version of

29. The Romances aremore sober in tone and less fantastic,—and it should be

30. And, although xlviiin the old romances the half-

31. Assonance of alternate lines is the usual rime of the romances, as in:

32. Footnote 23: (return) The romances viejos were originally in lines of approximatelysixteen syllables, and every line then had assonance

33. Footnote 24: (return) In the old romances and in the medieval epic, á could assonate with á-a

34. 8+8-syllable lineof the old romances, which was later divided into two8-syllable lines, and

35. In the old romances therewas no

36. conclusivelythat no such age can be ascribed to the romances in theirpresent form, and that in so

37. Manyare obviously later in origin; such are the romances

38. A few of the romances were printed in the Cancionero general of 1511, and more in loose sheets

39. The romances, as usually printed, are in octosyllabic lines,with a fixed accent on the seventh

40. In the six romances included in this collection the lyrical quality 255predominates above the

41. —Abenámar is one of a very few romances which are supposedto have their origin in

42. In the romances the conditional oftenreplaces the future, usually to fit the assonance

43. the earliestversion, is thus given in the Cancionero de romances of 1550,to follow line 18 of the

44. Instead I spent my time reading romances, which, however, later gave me a taste for serious literature

45. These myths and fables were so powerful during the Dark Ages of Europe, during a time when more murder, mayhem ,and human abominations were committed in secret and openly… by all the knights and Barons and Kings of Europe: that the peasants of that Age blanked out all of the human misery and horror they had suffered, and only kept the fairytale Romances and Epics alive in their cultural memories

46. All the gothic horror stories seen in movies, all gothic romances and ghost stories have ancient castles: they all tell tales of evil undead spirits who are hell-bent upon corrupting living people

47. “I know the historical romances I read are trite escapist fare, dear,” I said, “but I enjoy them

48. He shows plainly enough, too, that "Don Quixote" and the demolition of the chivalry romances was not the work that lay next his heart

49. It is plain that he had at one time an intention of dealing with the pastoral romances as he had dealt with the books of chivalry, and but for

50. The extraordinary influence of the romances of chivalry in his day is quite enough to account for the genesis of the book

51. Some idea of the prodigious development of this branch of literature in the sixteenth century may be obtained from the scrutiny of Chapter VII, if the reader bears in mind that only a portion of the romances belonging to by far the largest group are enumerated

52. From the time when the Amadises and Palmerins began to grow popular down to the very end of the century, there is a steady stream of invective, from men whose character and position lend weight to their words, against the romances of chivalry and the infatuation of their readers

53. He is nothing more than a crazy representative of the sentiments of the chivalry romances

54. In the Second Part it is the spirit rather than the incidents of the chivalry romances that is the subject of the burlesque

55. Enchantments of the sort travestied in those of Dulcinea and the Trifaldi and the cave of Montesinos play a leading part in the later and inferior romances, and another distinguishing feature is caricatured in Don Quixote's blind adoration of Dulcinea

56. In the romances of chivalry love is either a mere animalism or a fantastic idolatry

57. Like everything else in these romances, it is a gross exaggeration of the real sentiment of chivalry, but its peculiar extravagance is probably due to the influence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets

58. By keeping Dulcinea in the background, and making her a vague shadowy being of whose very existence we are left in doubt, he invests Don Quixote's worship of her virtues and charms with an additional extravagance, and gives still more point to the caricature of the sentiment and language of the romances

59. Jo had never tried this style before, contenting herself with very mild romances for The Spread Eagle

60. Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight

61. But I used to read hot romances and great murder mysteries and autobiographies

62. "I knew there were smugglers, but I thought that since the capture of Algiers, and the destruction of the regency, pirates existed only in the romances of Cooper and Captain Marryat

63. Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances in yellow covers, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even though they be gilded like yourself

64. ” The old witch was still alive, living in splendour in her castle at Lynn, spending her days reading romances in her native French, so people said

65. He started to imagine himself writing articles critical of society instead of tear-jerking romances

66. And the most passionate and impossible romances rose before Darya Alexandrovna’s imagination

67. But why did she look at him so oddly? And why did they were fluttering just like the eyes of girls in romances he had read, fluttering with her hands shake as they fingered her lace handkerchief

68. This never was one of the great romances

69. There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered

70. So does Time ruthlessly destroy his own romances

71. I wrote Tragedies in Verse and Noble Epicks, Romances in the French Style and Maxims modell’d upon La Rochefoucauld’s

72. The Work went smoothly enough for a Time, since I was as able with my Pen as any Grub Street Scribbler, purveying their Romances, like so many Cups of rich, sweet Chocolate, to their greedy Readers

73. Haywood wrote Romances in the French Manner; Mr

74. As for me, what was my Response to the News that I might soon be Mistress of Lymeworth? I’faith, I scarcely believ’d it! ’Twas a Fairy Tale, a Dream, a Fable from a Book of French Romances! First, as a Bastard—and a female one at that—how might I inherit the Estate settl’d upon Lord Bellars by his Father? Then, what Reason had I to believe that Lymeworth was unencumber’d by Debts and Mortgages! Why some of the greatest Houses in all of England were as heavy with Mortgages as their Chestnut Trees were heavy with Chestnuts! I presum’d, therefore, that Lord Bellars had left his Affairs in great Disarray, o’erspent mightily upon this aborted Renovation of Lymeworth, and was in Debt to his Architect, his Landscape Gardener, all his Builders, Painters, and Plasterers, not to mention his Banker, and e’en his Lawyer! In London he had liv’d high; at Lymeworth e’en his Expences for his Horses, Grooms, and Stables—not to mention his Hounds—must be hundreds of Pounds a Year, nay thousands

75. I scribbl’d my Romances, and nurtur’d my Beloveds, for I knew, after so many Losses, that Love is the closest we know of Heaven in this Weary World, and we must love the Human ere we may know the Divine! I liv’d for Lancelot, Belinda, my two Mothers, and the Merry Men; to tend my Garden, breed my Horses, feed my Turtledoves, scamper with my Dogs, and write my Books

76. (He had put me there as a Minor Dunce—doubtless for my Success in writing Romances and for my slighting him those many Years ago

77. Here, then, was a company whose spectacular growth was one of the great romances of American business, a company that was without doubt the largest retail enterprise in America and perhaps in the world, that had an uninterrupted record of earnings and dividends for many years—and yet was selling for less than its net current assets alone

78. This Madame Thenardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and angular—the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal of romances

79. Old romances produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop woman

80. Later on, when her hair, arranged in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magaera began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thenardier was nothing but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances

81. Except for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman

82. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances

83. Hence visions, suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to enter

84. And then, of course, there were romances

85. I have had an idea, ever since you have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome young wounded men who interest them

86. Read the romances

87. Most of the books were locked up behind glass doors; but there was one bookcase left open containing everything that could be needed in the way of elementary works, and several volumes of light literature, poetry, biography, travels, a few romances, &c

88. It is not likely that a man will be making romances about the thing he eats

89. Don Quixote, a Spanish gentleman, has his head turned as a result of excessive reading of romances, and, attended by his fat, vulgar squire, Sancho Panza, scours Spain, righting wrongs and rescuing fair damsels, in the fashion of the knights of old

90. "If I lived in a castle," she argued, "and Ermengarde was the lady of another castle, and came to see me, with knights and squires and vassals riding with her, and pennons flying, when I heard the clarions sounding outside the drawbridge I should go down to receive her, and I should spread feasts in the banquet hall and call in minstrels to sing and play and relate romances

91. For the next four hundred years his adventures, real and supposed, form the staple of the heroic romances of Spain

92. [Note 31: The heroes of two romances much in vogue in Pushkin's time: the former by Madame Cottin, the latter by the famous Madame Krudener