All 5 Uses of
amorous
in
Main Street
- She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull, but if she should ever learn those dismaying powers, her eyes would never become sullen or heavy or rheumily amorous.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was furnished with discarded patent rockers, lopsided reed chairs, a scratched pine table, a gritty straw mat, old steel engravings of milkmaids being morally amorous under willow-trees, faded chromos of roses and fish, and a kerosene stove for warming lunches.
Chpt 11amorous = romantic
- Surely, Carol shuddered, this was not human flesh, the rosy shining tissue of the amorous poets.†
Chpt 15
- He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.†
Chpt 17
- At first he had amorously deceived himself into liking her experiments with food—the one medium in which she could express imagination—but now he wanted only his round of favorite dishes: steak, roast beef, boiled pig's-feet, oatmeal, baked apples.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(amorous) romantic or sexual