Word: love-sick
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...legs. Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed in to her with his sharp terrier teeth. Then the Legs-in-Authority brought the romantic black stranger up from San Remo on a leash and put him-oh, outrage!-into...
...aristocratic nose appears to be more pointed than ever. She attends rehearsals, but no one is allowed to speak to her. A performance of Tristan was scheduled. She vetoed it. It was cancelled. She is still jealous of Mathilde Wesendonck, the composer's inspiration for the figure of love-sick Isolde...
Gregory Kelly (Willie Baxter in Seventeen) does remarkable things with the love-sick lad. His halting, almost plaintive, delivery; his queru lous monotone; his unaffected charm make the part almost as much his as Mr. Tarkington...
...pity that there should be included in every play that even touches on an English household the pitiable and ridiculous figure of the love-sick slavey. There must be growing up a professional caste of those who from mother and daughter take this role. It is perhaps why such passable ability of that of Miss Bryton is in this case wasted. Also the hero (we call Mr. Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American...
Would suffice your love-sick Caius...