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  • Her nose had a hook and her mouth was plump and cherubic, which was appropriate considering that Cupid was her greatgrandfather.†   (source)
  • We even sold the green marble mantle clock with the twin brass cupids.†   (source)
  • In a bizarre attempt to reflect this theme of modern enlightenment and yet stay within the decorative register of Renaissance architecture, the stairway banisters had been carved with cupidlike putti portrayed as modern scientists.†   (source)
  • Gold-framed mirrors hung at intervals between them, each crowned with a gilded cupid's head.†   (source)
  • Now she gave herself surprised eyebrows and a cupid-bow mouth.†   (source)
  • Their mouths were pouty little cupid's bows.†   (source)
  • Was it "Stupid, stupid, go and wait for Vizzini with Cupid"?†   (source)
  • It was a passable likeness, and the artist perceived one not very obvious aspect of the sitter's countenance-its mischief, an amused, babyish malice that suggested some unkind cupid aiming envenomed arrows.†   (source)
  • Once, we did take on Tia Flor, who indicated her large house, the well-kept grounds, the stone Cupid who had been re-routed so it was his mouth that spouted water.†   (source)
  • Each year before Cupid Day the student council sets up a booth outside the gym.†   (source)
  • …but I wasn't actively pursuing Katherines so much as I was actively pursuing girlfriends—was a smart-kid-summer-camp conquer, and I won her heart by, you guessed it, running in front of her bow on the archery course and claiming I'd been shot by Cupid's arrow, and she was the first girl I ever French-kissed, and I didn't know what to do so I sort of kept darting my tongue out from behind closed lips like I was a snake, and it didn't take very much of that for her to want to be lust…†   (source)
  • The rosebushes out back by the little cupid?†   (source)
  • Cupids and sprites sported around it "The seventh is Life," the man in black said softly.†   (source)
  • Like Cupid, she aimed for the heart.†   (source)
  • No doubt someone in the office, playing cupid, had alerted him that I was back.†   (source)
  • But she lived, she lived to put her arms around my neck and press her tiny cupid's bow to my lips and put her gleaming eye to nay eye until our lashes touched and, laughing, we reeled about the room as if to the wildest waltz.†   (source)
  • This man, a friend of Jean de Satigny, had transformed his humble raw materials—flour, eggs, and sugar—into a replica of the Acropolis crowned with a cloud of meringue on which rested two mythological lovers, Venus and Adonis, fashioned out of almond paste colored to imitate the rosy tones of their flesh, their blond hair, and the cobalt blue of their eyes; with them was a pudgy Cupid, also edible, which was sliced in half with a silver knife by the proud groom and the dejected bridle.†   (source)
  • It's almost like you're playing Cupid."†   (source)
  • She liked the exaggerated Cupid's bow of her upper lip, but not her cheeks, which she felt were too chubby.†   (source)
  • After an evening stroll with Hannah through Braintree—through "Cupid's Grove"—Adams spent a long night and most of the next day with Parson Wibird, talking and reading aloud from Benjamin Franklin's Reflections on Courtship and Marriage.†   (source)
  • …to an uneven paint job—from the tender rosé of fresh lox to a more aggressive bubble-gum coral, but everywhere there was pink, pink admitting rivalry from no other color, so that after only a few minutes contemplating my prospective room under the proud eye of Mrs. Zimmerman, I felt at first amused—it was a cupid's bower in which one could only barely restrain raucous laughter—and then really grimly trapped, as if I were in a Barricini candy store or the infants' department at Gimbels.†   (source)
  • But when I escaped from Change Alley, I suddenly didn't like people, big or little, male or female, and headed for the ship—and probably saved myself from pox, Cupid's catarrh, soft chancre, Chinese rot, saltwater itch, and athletes foot—the wisest decision I had made since, at fourteen, I had declined to wrestle a medium-sized alligator.†   (source)
  • They showed a cheerful, handsome, chubby little fellow with a cupid's-bow mouth, standing up on a blanket, bandylegged and with its fist up as if it were doing a peasant dance.†   (source)
  • The Cupid-cams were rolling, live to Olympus.†   (source)
  • You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.†   (source)
  • Annabeth ran her fingers along the base of the nearest Cupid statue.†   (source)
  • Up on the rim, the Cupid statues were drawing their bows into firing position.†   (source)
  • He nocked another arrow in his pink plastic Cupid's bow and fired at Surt.†   (source)
  • And as for that arrogant thug, Cupid ….†   (source)
  • At first glance they looked like Valentine angels—a dozen chubby little Cupid babies.†   (source)
  • Most noticeable, though, were her highly arched eyebrows and Cupid's-bow lips.†   (source)
  • Cupid and Psyche is perhaps the earliest variant on this tale.†   (source)
  • Cupid seemed more like a thug, an enforcer.†   (source)
  • Madam," he greeted her, "shall we not go walk in Cupid's Grove together?"†   (source)
  • Brigid holds up a statuette of the world's ugliest cancan dancer, formerly a cupid with breasts.†   (source)
  • The karpoi solidified into chubby Cupid piranhas again.†   (source)
  • "Didn't anybody ever tell you that the more roses you get on Cupid Day, the more popular you are?"†   (source)
  • Unsurprisingly, she's not wearing anything Cupid Day—related.†   (source)
  • These are the ones in the pot with the cupid's face on it.†   (source)
  • A figurine of a little cupid sits inside an alcove under the stairs.†   (source)
  • Where you least expect me, Cupid answered.†   (source)
  • That's where the roses are stored on Cupid Day, and I have some adjustments to make.†   (source)
  • In Cupid and Psyche, Psyche, when she leaves Cupid, must go on a quest to get him back.†   (source)
  • Do you know how I ended up serving Cupid?†   (source)
  • Happy Cupid Day,— I say, and we clink Styrofoam cups.†   (source)
  • I've dwelt here for eons, bringing those who sought love into the presence of Cupid."†   (source)
  • It's Cupid Day, and Lindsay's outside, and I have business to take care of.†   (source)
  • Still hiding, Cupid said, smashing another skeleton to pieces.†   (source)
  • Don't make me 18 on Cupid Day, beeyatch!†   (source)
  • My wife Psyche learned that lesson, Cupid said.†   (source)
  • Cupid's eyes are spirals and he has a stupid grin on his face.†   (source)
  • He'd certainly never thought of Cupid as scary.†   (source)
  • I thought Cupid Day was one of your favorites.†   (source)
  • He didn't understand why Nico would think of himself as the main target, but Cupid seemed to agree.†   (source)
  • Every year since then we've sent her a rose and the same note on Cupid Day.†   (source)
  • And so you run away again, Cupid chided.†   (source)
  • She doesn't look like the average Cupid either.†   (source)
  • But before that, long before that, it was the home of Cupid.†   (source)
  • You make such a huge deal about Cupid Day.†   (source)
  • A good try, Cupid said, his voice already distant.†   (source)
  • Then he realized Nico di Angelo had looked the same way after facing Cupid in the ruins of Salona.†   (source)
  • "I know it's Cupid Day and love is in the air, but guess what?†   (source)
  • Jason had never thought much about Cupid.†   (source)
  • "Leave him alone, Cupid," Jason croaked.†   (source)
  • "It is one of Cupid's many treasures, a reminder of better times.†   (source)
  • It is a costly thing, Cupid said, looking on the true face of Love.†   (source)
  • Cupid struck you with his arrow, and you fell in love.†   (source)
  • Everyone has the wrong impression of Cupid …. until they meet him.†   (source)
  • I'm sure Apollo would've taken horrible vengeance on me, but Cupid offered me his protection.†   (source)
  • Cupid struck, slapping Nico sideways into a granite pedestal.†   (source)
  • For the first time, Cupid's gaze seemed sympathetic.†   (source)
  • He wanted to say it wasn't Cupid's business, but he realized this was exactly Cupid's business.†   (source)
  • Between them, over the mantel, there's an oval mirror, flanked by two pairs of silver candlesticks, with a white china Cupid centered between them, its arm around the neck of a lamb.†   (source)
  • On either side of Neptune, little winged Cupid dudes were sitting, kind of chillin', like, What's up?†   (source)
  • And she was looking at me with two calm, violet eyes and a child's mouth that seemed almost obdurately soft, obdurately the cupid's bow unsullied by paint or personality; and the mouth smiled now and said, as those eyes seemed to fire: 'Yes, he's as you said he would be, and I love him already.†   (source)
  • "Katherine III was a perfectly charming little brunette whom I met my first summer at smart-kid camp, which would in time come to be the place for child prodigies to pick up chicks, and since it makes a better story, I choose to remember that she dumped me one morning on the archery course after this math prodigy named Jerome ran in front of her bow and fell to the ground, claiming he'd been shot by Cupid's arrow.†   (source)
  • Here was a picture of the two together bathing naked in a diamond-watered Colorado creek, the brother, a pot-bellied, sun-blackened cupid, clutching his sister's hand and giggling, as though the tumbling stream contained ghostly tickling fingers.†   (source)
  • When Raphael, who had a pointed goatee and a waxed mustache, said he hadn't a poem to turn in because he was happy and he could only write when he was depressed, Gallagher's Cupid's-bow lips pursed, her preternaturally raised eyebrows raised farther, and she said, "Poetry is not an attitude.†   (source)
  • They felt Nico's anguish from his days on the Argo II, and his encounter with Cupid in the ruins of Salona.†   (source)
  • That rhymed, but where was the Cupid?†   (source)
  • The forehead, round and generous, and the perfect Cupid's bow of the lip was all Sister Mary Joseph Praise.†   (source)
  • But being forced to talk about Percy, being bullied and harassed and strong-armed simply for Cupid's amusement ….†   (source)
  • "A really buff Cupid," Percy agreed.†   (source)
  • She's pretending to be my mother, someone named Sarah Rees-Toome who lives in a cottage with a cupid out back, when my own mother was Virginia Doyle, a woman who never once set foot in Surrey.†   (source)
  • The yellow-diapered Cupid snarled.†   (source)
  • The ones in the cupid pot were white.†   (source)
  • They were like Cupid piranhas.†   (source)
  • It's Cupid," Frank said.†   (source)
  • In several versions, including one by the Brothers Grimm, the Beast is human by night but an animal by day, and in this way, the tale is similar to the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, where Psyche marries handsome Cupid, but since he only comes to her after dark, her sisters persuade her that he is a monster.†   (source)
  • In the past I would rather have died than be seen in the halls of Thomas Jefferson on Cupid Day without a single rose.†   (source)
  • But mostly everyone was a little bit antsy, I think because of Cupid Day, and Daimler didn't really care that—"†   (source)
  • As I was saying, I know there's a lot of excitement on Cupid Day, but that doesn't mean we can just ignore the regular—"†   (source)
  • "You love Cupid Day," my mom prods.†   (source)
  • She unzips her coat and I see a white tuft of fur peeking out from her cleavage: our Cupid Day tank tops.†   (source)
  • Devane, who usually oversees Cupid Day, isn't around, but there are three Cupids standing over one of the bins, giggling.†   (source)
  • Lindsay, Elody, and Ally have each texted me the exact same thing: Cupid Day <3 U. They were probably together when they sent it.†   (source)
  • The bird is labeled American Bald Eagle, and it looks like it's about to fall directly on top of a couple sitting on a bench—Cupid's original target, presumably.†   (source)
  • It takes me a second to recognize her, but as she turns a complete circle, looking for her friends, I do: the Cupid from math class—the angel who delivered my roses.†   (source)
  • "So how's Cupid Day treating you?"†   (source)
  • The skeletons had Cupid pinned now, but the invisible god laughed so cruelly that Jason wanted to summon another bolt of lightning.†   (source)
  • "Happy Cupid Day," my father says.†   (source)
  • I make a big deal of unfolding the tiny card that's looped around the rose stem and acting moved when I read the note, even though all he's written is Happy Cupid Day.†   (source)
  • "Cupid," Jason called, "where are you?"†   (source)
  • You're too busy worrying about how many roses you're going to get on Cupid Day to do anything more than throw on your clothes, brush your teeth, and pray to God you left your makeup in the bottom of your messenger bag so you can do it in the car.†   (source)
  • Jason thought he had zeroed in on Cupid's voice—at the edge of the amphitheater about twenty yards away—but he wanted to make sure.†   (source)
  • Tell him, Nico di Angelo, Cupid said.†   (source)
  • There are only two days of the year when Lindsay, Ally, Elody, and I deliberately dress the same: Pajama Day during Spirit Week, because we all bought cute matching sets at Victoria's Secret last Christmas, and Cupid Day.†   (source)
  • "It's Cupid Day, you know?†   (source)
  • Cupid became visible—a lean, muscular young man with snowy white wings, straight black hair, a simple white frock and jeans.†   (source)
  • Love is on every side, Cupid said.†   (source)
  • On Cupid Day?†   (source)
  • Cupid's voice whirled around him.†   (source)
  • Cupid Day.†   (source)
  • Cupid dissolved into the wind.†   (source)
  • "—and it's Cupid Day.†   (source)
  • "Like Psyche, Cupid's wife.†   (source)
  • Happy Cupid Day!†   (source)
  • Lindsay chatters about how many roses she expects to get and whether Marcy Posner will, as usual, break down and cry in the bathroom during fifth period because Justin Streamer dumped her three years ago on Cupid Day, thus permanently sealing her fate as only medium-popular, and I look out the window and watch Ridgeview go by in a blur of gray.†   (source)
  • Ask your friends, Cupid said.†   (source)
  • Happy Cupid Day.†   (source)
  • Very good, Jason, Cupid said.†   (source)
  • Cupid laughed.†   (source)
  • Just take us to Cupid.†   (source)
  • Cupid taunted.†   (source)
  • Cupid, in Latin.†   (source)
  • Cupid said.†   (source)
  • CUPID.†   (source)
  • Especially not Cupid.†   (source)
  • You cannot lie to Cupid.†   (source)
  • Cupid was a monster.†   (source)
  • Cupid laughed.†   (source)
  • He glared at Cupid.†   (source)
  • A hundred yards away, at the entrance pool, the Cupids were still filming.†   (source)
  • The Cupids turned back to their original positions.†   (source)
  • And then one of the Cupids came in, and I swear, she had, like, three dozen flowers, all for Juliet.†   (source)
  • "Cupids!" someone squeals, and the class dissolves into giggles.†   (source)
  • Fifth period I have calc and the Cupids come early, just after class has started.†   (source)
  • But it smelled like her, it was still warm and alive with her presence, and as I stood breathing in her atmosphere I felt a huge happy smile on my face just to be standing there with her fairy tale books, her perfume bottles, her sparkly tray of barrettes and her valentine collection: paper lace, cupids and columbines, Edwardian suitors with rose bouquets pressed to their hearts.†   (source)
  • The dresser in my room was covered with little porcelain white women holding parasols, china dogs, fat-bellied cupids and blown-glass animals of every persuasion.†   (source)
  • And up above the net, next to one of the Cupids, a glass-windowed booth that must be the controller's station.†   (source)
  • The Cupids' heads popped open.†   (source)
  • Karpoi grain spirits—those horrible little piranha Cupids—were rushing through the tall grass abducting campers at random, pulling them away from the line.†   (source)
  • After the Cupids came in he took a look at my four roses, raised his eyebrows, and said I must have secret admirers everywhere.†   (source)
  • I can't wait for the Cupids to come.†   (source)
  • The devil makes an impatient gesture with the roses she's still carrying, and the angel—Marian, I guess—quickly rejoins the other Cupids.†   (source)
  • Devane, who usually oversees Cupid Day, isn't around, but there are three Cupids standing over one of the bins, giggling.†   (source)
  • For two dollars each, you can buy your friends Valograms—roses with little notes attached to them—and then they get delivered by Cupids (usually freshman or sophomore girls trying to get in good with the upperclassmen) throughout the day.†   (source)
  • Cupids, definitely.†   (source)
  • As soon as Mr. Daimler ushers the Cupids out the door—everyone in class still giggling and showing off the notes their friends have written them and trying to predict how many roses they can expect by the end of the day—I scoop up my roses and sail to the front of the classroom, dumping them in the big trash can right next to Mr. Daimler's desk.†   (source)
  • This was an eerie organdy and chintz labyrinth glowing at high noon in the empurpled half-light of a mausoleum, where rosy cupids simpered from the walls down upon a grand piano in fire-engine red and overstuffed chairs glistening beneath protective shrouds of transparent plastic, and where the porcelain bathroom fixtures were jet-black.†   (source)
  • Psyche Entering Cupid's Garden (oil on canvas, England, A.D. 1903).†   (source)
  • Apparently Mrs de Winter broke the cupid herself and forgot to say anything,' said Maxim.†   (source)
  • The fact is I broke that cupid when I was in the morning-room yesterday.†   (source)
  • I was just arranging those books on the desk, to see if they would stand, and the cupid slipped.†   (source)
  • This all began because I broke the cupid in the morning-room.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, damn that infernal cupid,' said Maxim wearily.†   (source)
  • If I hadn't broken the cupid none of this would have happened.†   (source)
  • At first he had lots of friends coming to see him in the onetime sumptuous bedroom, furnished by his third wife, who had left him ten years ago, with an Empire four-poster bed and gilded mirrors, Cupid with his head inside a bow.†   (source)
  • There was no snow on Shreve's arm now, no sleeve on his arm at all now: only the smooth cupid-fleshed forearm and hand coming back into the lamp and taking a pipe from the empty coffee can where he kept them, filling it and lighting it.†   (source)
  • Mr. Merryweather had had it whispered to him that it had been bought for a honeymoon-Young Lord L— had surrendered to Cupid at last!†   (source)
  • Now Dasher now Dancer now Prancer and Vixen—on Comet on Cupid on Dunder and Blitzen—to the top of the porch to the top of the wall now dash away dash away dash away all ….†   (source)
  • One of the best known and most charming examples of the "difficult tasks" motif is that of Psyche's quest for her lost lover, Cupid.'†   (source)
  • Or once again: when Psyche had accomplished all of the difficult tasks, Jupiter himself gave to her a draft of the elixir of immortality; so that she is now and forever united with Cupid, her beloved, in the paradise of perfected form.†   (source)
  • Here all the principal roles are reversed: instead of the lover trying to win his bride, it is the bride trying to win her lover; and instead of a cruel father withholding his daughter from the lover, it is the jealous mother, Venus, hiding her son, Cupid, from his bride.†   (source)
  • We'll have it in the morning-room,' she must have said, and he must have knelt down beside her, and they must have looked at the cupid together.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he came into the room, and she was kneeling on the floor, wrenching open the little crate in which the cupid was packed.†   (source)
  • I suppose the cupid was put there then?†   (source)
  • And she then would have plunged her hand down into the shavings and brought out the cupid who stood on one foot, his bow in his hand.†   (source)
  • They upset a little china cupid who had hitherto stood alone on the desk except for the candlesticks.†   (source)
  • He is thinking about the cupid.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't you like if your tails were—so— Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?†   (source)
  • But An if you deem that Cupid be so cruel You should have stifled baby-love in's cradle!†   (source)
  • Well, then may I tell the Cupid-stricken youth that the matter is as good as settled?†   (source)
  • "Rawdon dear—don't you think—you'd better get that—money from Cupid, before he goes?"†   (source)
  • 'And when you have made it, you can keep it too, I should think,' said Cupid.†   (source)
  • Her best tile got a splash of water, which left a sepia tear on the Cupid's cheek.†   (source)
  • On the clock there was a bronze cupid, who smirked as he bent his arm beneath a golden garland.†   (source)
  • Get the money from Cupid tonight, as he'll be off to-morrow most likely.†   (source)
  • Master Kidderminster was Cupid's mortal name.†   (source)
  • The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.†   (source)
  • "That poor Cupid!" she said; "how dreadfully he was in love with me, and what a fool he was!†   (source)
  • Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid.†   (source)
  • At length, with his hostess still at his side, he passed out of range of the wooden Cupid, unfastened his horses and drove off.†   (source)
  • I do believe it was Cupid himself who stood by you, and threatened the entire Foreign Office with destruction by fire, just on purpose to make me drop love's message, before it had been polluted by my indiscreet eyes.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: She's a danger mortal, All unsuspicious—full of charms unconscious, Like a sweet perfumed rose—a snare of nature, Within whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush!†   (source)
  • With the mouth the sculptor had taken desperate chances—it was the cupid's bow of a magazine cover, yet it shared the distinction of the rest.†   (source)
  • Even the delights of dancing paled before the alluring opportunities for tete-a-tetes that invited the soul to loaf in the long library before the baronial fireplace, or in the drawing-room with its deep comfy armchairs, its shaded lamps just made for a sly whisper of pretty nothings all a deux; or even in the billiard room where one could take a cue and show a prowess at still another game than that sponsored by Cupid and Terpsichore.†   (source)
  • First he offered her his smaller wares—the busts of kings and queens, then a minstrel, then a winged Cupid.†   (source)
  • But the local custom of discretion had meant that he learned of Karen's demise too late and that she had already been placed in a permanent horizontal position, in the garden of the cupid whose snowy cap was cocked to one side.†   (source)
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