He imagined that her occasional snubs of Judge Barton were the outcroppings of an inward shrinking from a passion to which she could not respond; for, loverlike, he assumed that all men must feel as he did about his divinity and he could not perceive the undercurrent of patronage in the Judge's not infrequent gallantries, which was like an acid on Miss Ponsonby's quivering nerves.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Truly there is something womanly about Night, something loverlike in a vast impersonal way; but too big-she is too terribly big to woo with human sentiment.
"The River and I"
John G. Neihardt
Oxford, the city, and the colleges, the remains of the old religious art, the customs, the dresses-these things he adored with a loverlike devotion, which was utterly unrewarded.
"Oxford"
Lang, Andrew