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Valentine

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Valentine
a true friend and constant lover. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona]
See : Faithfulness
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Professor Valentine Dorrimore, the hypnotist, had a large audience last night.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Freely admired her, and she felt sure that it was he who had sent her a beautiful valentine; but her sister seemed to think so lightly of him (all young ladies think lightly of the gentlemen to whom they are not engaged), that Penny never dared mention him, and trembled and blushed whenever they met him, thinking of the valentine, which was very strong in its expressions, and which she felt guilty of knowing by heart.
Brother Jacob by Eliot, George View in context
Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey's Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Bartle Massey had lent him.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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