He would soon forget that idle dream in the brisk realities of his profession, and he would show that he was not like those other young men who came fluttering round her sisters with their simmering sentimentalities and vain flirtations.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
If Miss Anne Beresford shows her independence now, it is mostly in a sort of half-declared contempt of sentimentalities and flirtations-of which, to be sure, she sees a good deal around her.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
"How can these sentimentalities come from a man like you?
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley