| 单词 | cupboard love |
| 例句 | Ancient Greeks had no word for cupboard love, but, undoubtedly, this is a love the vast majority of animal pets may feel for us. Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z He has a cupboard love for Sarah, but I think that his affection for me is simon-pure. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z So no one could accuse Dolls of cupboard love. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z But it isn’t cupboard love, at least not quite. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Every kind of love is more or less cupboard love. Her Royal Highness Woman It would display, for the careful eye, the hatless Kelly filleting a flying fish, against the bunker hatch, for his friend the cat, who should be gazing up with cupboard love at her unshaven protector. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Moreover, love and respect move in the direction of activity, and if everything comes the child's way there will be little love, except "cupboard love," going the other way. Rural Life and the Rural School "It's cupboard love as brings you out so sharp," he said, his voice resounding in the cold darkness. The Rainbow I won't pretend to say, but it evidently is intended to suggest cupboard love, and there is a portentously large pitcher of ale in reserve on the bench. Line and Form (1900) He wants love, not gifts, from his people, a love which on their part does not fawn for other gifts from him in return, like the cupboard love of kittens purring for cream. Hebrew Life and Times Perhaps my enthusiasm for California sounds a little like cupboard love. The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed perhaps of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from morn to night, by incessant homage. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Lotos leaves being the elephant's favorite food, these lines admirably sum up the Hindoo idea of risking life for "love"—cupboard love. Primitive Love and Love-Stories "It's all cupboard love with them," he said. The Belton Estate |
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