Ramirez, the honest, lovelorn swain, is forbidden the island.

For some time David continued in a state of great dejection, a lovelorn swain of seventeen years.

He would show her, he would let her see that he was no weakling, no lovelorn swain pleading for denied favours.

You have had a score or so of offers, and did not trouble yourself as to the fate of the lovelorn swains.