1837. C. Lofft, Self-formation, I. 237. Lying there loverwise, under a grove of their own planting.
1872. Elizabeth Akers Allen, The Magnolia, vii., in New Orleans Republican, 21 Jan., 6/1.
| Oh, gentle airs, which so softly blow, | |
| Waving your beauty loverwise, | |
| Tell me if haply ye may know, | |
| Is this like the lovely trees which grow | |
| By the silver streams of Paradise? |
1872. Howells, Wedd. Journ. (1892), 155. They sat down here loverwise.
1884. Rider Haggard, Dawn, II. i. 3. They journeyed loverwise, with their arms around each other.
