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romantic or sexual

amorous = romantic or sexual

amorous = sexual

amorous = romantic or sexual

According to the study, men who are shown pictures of a women in a red dress want to ask her more amorous questions than men shown pictures of the same woman in green dress.

amorous = romantic

She had thought that there was an amorous relationship between Tita and Pedro, concealed, hidden by outward appearances.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

amorous = romantic or sexual

How many scenes, how many amorous episodes he had imagined on this seductive and playful theme, when his work was over!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

amorous = sexual or romantic

He knew in his cups three distinct stages of intoxication,—the dignified—the quarrelsome—the amorous.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

amorous = sexual or romantic

The next morning he saw Albert pass and repass, holding an enormous bouquet, which he doubtless meant to make the bearer of his amorous epistle.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

amorous = romantic

"You bet I will!" said Martin, according to the rules for amorous discourse in the University of Winnemac.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

amorous = romantic

It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

amorous = romantic or sexual

It was merely stated that the criminal, whose approaching trial was making such a sensation—retired army captain, an idle swaggerer, and reactionary bully—was continually involved in amorous intrigues, and particularly popular with certain ladies "who were pining in solitude."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

amorous = romantic or sexual

  Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
  By their own beauties, or, if love be blind,
  It best agrees with night.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

amorous = love-making

...she had frequently observed the contemptuous expression with which her daughter looked upon Debray,—an expression which seemed to imply that she understood all her mother's amorous and pecuniary relationships with the intimate secretary;
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

amorous = romantic or sexual

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.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

amorous = romantic

After an ineffectual clutch, intended to detain and carry them to his lips, old Arthur gave his own fingers a mumbling kiss, and with many amorous distortions of visage went in pursuit of his friend, who was by this time in the street.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
  Shall I believe
  That unsubstantial death is amorous,
  And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
  Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

amorous = in love (with you)

Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
rebuffed the amorous advances
amorous glances
But she did not feel amorous with LuLing in the next room.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter

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