| She came to inquire whether the swain who kept her company, and had promised to marry her, would keep his word or be false-hearted. |
| A swain touched then his lute, or whatever you may call it, to his dulcinea. |
| Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died. |
| I dare say the sight of a swain in full kitchen-fury is anaphrodisiac. |
| We all loved Queen Aouda and her handsome and dashing swain, the hero of the piece, Phileas Fogg. |
| She operated it as a rooming-house, and a lodger came to it called Hall who became the landlady's swain. |
