Sentence examples for swain from inspiring English sources

It does in fact deliver not so much the methadone as the cold-turkey treatment for any modern swain tempted to act the fool for love.

If, however, the home of your swain is one governed by a traditional matriarch and an inflexible code of honour, opt for a simple jersey shift dress – this one from Mango can be layered over T-shirts or long sleeves depending on the time of day, and would work with Clarks' casual desert boots or ballet slippers for a more girlish take.

While it deals with what seems like a roll call of clichés - single New York writer chronicles a failed love affair and the dastardly behaviour of her errant swain – it blows any lazy Sex and the City comparisons clean out of the water.

(Nov. 5 at 8 and Nov. 8 at 1). | In a very respectable revival of "La Traviata," Anja Harteros and Massimo Giordano — the doomed "lost woman" and her ardent swain — sing handsomely against Franco Zeffirelli's backdrop of gold leaf, French country-house pastels, and glittery excess; the director, Kristine McIntyre, coaxes what drama she can from a production that resists storytelling.

You root for her, and for her swain, Gabey, strongly sung and fairly strongly danced by the appealing Tony Yazbeck.

de Garton, the female champion of the court and her adoring swain, Vicomte, a pale blonde boy whom she treated like dirt.

She operated it as a rooming-house, and a lodger came to it called Hall who became the landlady's swain.

When, in the Miller's Tale, Alison says to her swain, "Love me at once or I will die," Ackroyd gives us "Fuck me or I am finished".