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  • He clutched Doyle as an amorous swain might clutch his lady in a hug dance.†   (source)
  • Because privacy is nonexistent in the tenementlike confines of Base Camp, the amorous assignations that took place in this woman's tent were duly noted by other members of her team, especially the Sherpas, who sat outside pointing and snickering during the encounters.†   (source)
  • I suppose it was useless for me to expect her to forget my sour temper of the daytime with all sorts of amorous attentions in the evening.†   (source)
  • Although some disturbances had already occurred, and the troops had committed all kinds of retaliatory abuses, Florentino Ariza was so befuddled that he was unaware of the state of the world, and a military patrol surprised him one dawn as he disturbed the chastity of the dead with his amorous provocations.†   (source)
  • We had progressed to where I stayed the night, waking up early in the morning, not daring to move for fear I'd wake Rudy up in an amorous mood and end up in an early morning discussion of why not now.†   (source)
  • Since the stairwell hug of two weeks ago, LaTisha has been a touch more amorous than usual, so he finds himself steering clear of her.†   (source)
  • Instead, Annie lost her virginity to a beautiful Senegalese man called Xavier to whose amorous advances she remembered to say yes, loudly, and mean it.†   (source)
  • The latter was lowing from the pasture, its amorous call joining a pair of hammers that rapped away on the farmhouse roof—no doubt Mario and Paolo repairing the leaky tiles above the northwest bedroom.†   (source)
  • She drew a deep, smiling, contented breath and regarded him amorously with a melting gaze.†   (source)
  • They had a laugh over that as they raced ahead to an amorous young miller's wife that Patrek knew.†   (source)
  • All this was transpiring when the amorous spirits of the whole group appear to have been at a pitch.†   (source)
  • I hardly fit into a cradle anymore, and anyone who'd believe we were amorously involved has to be crazy, but Sounis probably will hear it and believe it.†   (source)
  • She had then gently but firmly rejected her husband's amorous advances, but had made up for those rejections when she and a sobered mate reached the hotel in Kahala.†   (source)
  • How amorous Ralph had grown since they moved!†   (source)
  • And the strange thing is that I kept having the thought that I was, or at least imagining the horror of it, for even as every cell of me was reaching toward her with utter tenderness and warmth and the drug of an amorous bloom, it seemed I could just as easily summon the harshest want in my hands, the tightness and pressure that might have no bound.†   (source)
  • Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.†   (source)
  • However, because the period of urgent amorous appetite is short — only about three weeks out of the year — these bachelors and spinsters probably do not suffer any great feeling of sexual deprivation.†   (source)
  • —or to the great Bach festivals, or to hear Lotte Lehmann, Kleiber, Gieseking, Furtwangler, Backhaus, Fischer, Kempff ...His voice seems to be an amorous melodic murmur, cajoling, politely but outrageously flirtatious, irresistible and (to her utter distress now) wickedly exciting.†   (source)
  • This annoyed George, who was beginning to feel alcoholically amorous, and he decided to have a quiet sulk beneath the stars.†   (source)
  • PAPILLON: [joking amorously and caressing DAISY'S cheek] I'll take you in my arms and we'll float down together.†   (source)
  • Drunk he certainly was and amorous he might have been.†   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
    amorous = romantic
  • He knew in his cups three distinct stages of intoxication,—the dignified—the quarrelsome—the amorous.   (source)
    amorous = sexual or romantic
  • How many scenes, how many amorous episodes he had imagined on this seductive and playful theme, when his work was over!   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
    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.   (source)
    amorous = romantic or sexual
  • …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;   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
  • and attempted to join the amorous, blue-bottomed tussle?†   (source)
  • But she did not feel amorous with LuLing in the next room.†   (source)
  • A furious bark erupted from Frigga, who was angrily eyeing the amorous Fourth Years.†   (source)
  • "My real crime," Hamilton wrote, "is an amorous connection with his wife."†   (source)
  • With difficulty, Rosaura reported that it had been several months since Pedro had approached her with amorous intentions.†   (source)
  • They stayed in this amorous ecstasy until Pedro lowered his eyes and stared steadily at Tita's breasts.†   (source)
  • She let herself go to the encounter, and they wrapped each other in a long embrace; again experiencing an amorous climax, they left together for the lost Eden.†   (source)
  • And the other Prudencia, the Widow Arellano, the amorous one, who would rip the buttons from his clothes so that he would have to stay in her house while she sewed them back on.†   (source)
  • He found Jean de Satigny, whom he had not seen since the disastrous night when he had awakened him to tell him about Blanca's amorous adventures, sipping unsweetened melon juice in the only pastry shop in town.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf longed desperately to win parades and sat up half the night working on it while his wife waited amorously for him in bed thumbing through Krafft-Ebing to her favorite passages.†   (source)
  • She signed up with an organization called Voluntary Service Overseas and was given a two-week crash course on how to teach English, avoid malaria and repel the advances of amorous locals (say no, loudly, and mean it).†   (source)
  • But the appeal of young women was exceedingly strong, for as an elderly John Adams would one day write, he was "of an amorous disposition" and from as early as ten or eleven years of age had been "very fond of the society of females."†   (source)
  • She was one of those people who are born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengeance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism, but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman—made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor—was consuming herself.†   (source)
  • At least that was Sophie's personal reaction, and she told me that she had sometimes wondered whether it might not have been this total absence of amorous feeling which threw into even sharper focus the dream she had that last night while sleeping in the basement of the Commandant's house.†   (source)
  • He had a novel under his arm: bits of an amorous scene stuck out, crudely coloured.†   (source)
  • It is a menacing or amorous puff, similar to the grampus.†   (source)
  • He's in an amorous stupor, poor beast, and doesn't quite know where he is.†   (source)
  • Then I became very heated and filled with amorous anxiety.†   (source)
  • They fumbled amorously.†   (source)
  • It is a vinous, it is an amorous light.†   (source)
  • The dietitian was twenty-seven—old enough to have to take a few amorous risks but still young enough to attach a great deal of importance not so much to love, but to being caught at it.†   (source)
  • It is she—shady and amorous as she was—who makes it not quite fantastic for me to say to you to-night: Earn five hundred a year by your wits.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Tarrou and Cottard would follow for some minutes one of those amorous couples who in the past would have tried to hide the passion drawing them to each other, but now, pressed closely to each other's side, paraded the streets among the crowd, with the trancelike self-absorption of great lovers, oblivious of the people around them.†   (source)
  • Sailors loiter on the parade, and amorous couples; the omnibuses rattle along the sea front to the town.†   (source)
  • Her features rose very slightly from the surface of her face, fall of sense; her eyes were, I guess I'd say, amorous.†   (source)
  • When she starts to cry the pink of it begins to darken and darkens up into her eyes, which seemed so amorous the first time I saw them in Acatla.†   (source)
  • One of that old sister-society whose pins and barrettes and little jars and combs from Assyria or Crete lie so curious with the wavy prongs and stained gold and green-gnawed bronze in museum cases—those sacred girls laid in the bed by the priests to wait for the secret night visit of Attis or whoever, the maidens who took part in the hot annual battles of gardens, amorous ditty singers, Syrians, Amorites, Moabites, and so on.†   (source)
  • Regular birds of paradise, I tell you, and eminently amorous.†   (source)
  • And there was little to stay her, for she was essentially yielding, if not amorous.†   (source)
  • The pretty Fraulein Hedwig had amorous trou1 bles too.†   (source)
  • The man called Frenchy, was audacious, persistent, smiling, amorous-eyed, and rudely gallant.†   (source)
  • He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.†   (source)
  • Surely, Carol shuddered, this was not human flesh, the rosy shining tissue of the amorous poets.†   (source)
  • "So," said the poet, somewhat disappointed in his amorous hopes.†   (source)
  • But for the moment, let us do as did the amorous Gascon; we will see after the worthy mercer later.†   (source)
  • A sort of Byronic hero—an amorous conspirator, it strikes me.†   (source)
  • Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of the Tender to the Latin country.†   (source)
  • "Die!" exclaimed the amorous captain, "What are you saying, my lovely angel?†   (source)
  • And then, twenty had arrived: and twenty is an old age for amorous women.†   (source)
  • The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall trees.†   (source)
  • Marat in his youth had had amorous intrigues.†   (source)
  • His dull and childless home had long since palled on him; and in addition to more permanent consolations he was always in quest of amorous adventures in his own set.†   (source)
  • It was an amorous and not unpleasant little hole when the curtains were drawn, and the lights turned on, and the gas-stove unlit.†   (source)
  • Climates that breathe amorous secrets and futile regrets may agree with an old and disillusioned man like myself; but they must always prove fatal to a temperament which is still unformed.†   (source)
  • As I hesitated, two of the beautiful Upper-world people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He had never thought of Cacilie in an amorous way, she was exceedingly plain; but now, looking back, the affair seemed very romantic.†   (source)
  • He tried to make it at once amorously joyful, and impersonal enough to beguile the three coatless, beer-swizzling, grinning doctors.†   (source)
  • Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; she gave a little scream and ran away; and then they began to chase one another about the room, scrambling over the furniture, their wide sleeves fluttering like wings, clucking and crowing like a pair of amorous fowls.†   (source)
  • He dwelt amorously on every detail of her appearance, and Griffiths knew exactly how her thin hands were shaped and how white her face was, and he laughed at Philip when he talked of the charm of her pale, thin lips.†   (source)
  • Now, the lady who was walking with Legrandin was a model of virtue, known and highly respected; there could be no question of his being out for amorous adventure, and annoyed at being detected; and my father asked himself how he could possibly have displeased our friend.†   (source)
  • Slipping into the manner, half-artistic, half-amorous—with which he could always manage to amuse the Princess—a manner which came to him quite naturally whenever he dipped for a moment into the old social atmosphere, and wishing also to express in words, for his own satisfaction, the longing that he felt for the country: "Ah!" he exclaimed, or rather intoned, in such a way as to be audible at once to Mme. de Saint-Euverte, to whom he spoke, and to Mme. des Laumes, for whom he was speaking, "Behold our charming Princess!†   (source)
  • At one time indeed he felt that he could understand that this moral 'lightness,' of which he would never have suspected Odette, was perfectly well known, and that at Baden or Nice, when she had gone, in the past, to spend several months in one or the other place, she had enjoyed a sort of amorous notoriety.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In good time, nevertheless, as the ardour of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.†   (source)
  • The woman took advantage of a slight amorous propensity that may be a weakness in my disposition, perhaps, and inveigled me into a contract which was found to be illegal.†   (source)
  • He was of an amorous disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly and decidedly renounced women.†   (source)
  • By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.†   (source)
  • 'It's of no use disguising facts, ma'am,' said Mr. Bumble, slowly flourishing the teaspoon with a kind of amorous dignity which made him doubly impressive; 'I would drown it myself, with pleasure.'†   (source)
  • Lucas Beaumanoir hath settled that the death of a Jewess will be a sin-offering sufficient to atone for all the amorous indulgences of the Knights Templars; and thou knowest he hath both the power and will to execute so reasonable and pious a purpose.†   (source)
  • This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of a bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes.†   (source)
  • Finally, in a much-feared satirical journal, an article by its most popular columnist finished off the monster for good, spurning it in the style of Hippolytus repulsing the amorous advances of his stepmother Phædra, and giving the creature its quietus amid a universal burst of laughter.†   (source)
  • No speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid rhetoric at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.†   (source)
  • So, thinking of his misfortunes, amorous and pastoral, he fell asleep, shepherds enjoying, in common with sailors, the privilege of being able to summon the god instead of having to wait for him.†   (source)
  • "Well, I don't regret it, if you don't," the Captain cried, still in an amorous rapture with his wife, who rewarded him with a kiss by way of reply, and was indeed not a little gratified by the generous confidence of her husband.†   (source)
  • He thought of her in amorous meditation a good deal as he might have thought of a Dresden-china shepherdess.†   (source)
  • Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostovs' house as at this holiday time.†   (source)
  • Emma went on, with dainty little nods, more coaxing than an amorous kitten— "You love others, confess it!†   (source)
  • Why, he can make love to you, if you like it, girl; for he is an amorous youth, and, having already disposed of four wives, is impatient to show how much he honors their memories by taking a fifth.†   (source)
  • The lady of his heart was his partner in the dance, and smiling graciously in reply to all his amorous oglings; while Brom Bones, sorely smitten with love and jealousy, sat brooding by himself in one corner.†   (source)
  • Handsome, well-bred, noble lord as you are, my dear Athos, neither princesses nor queens would be secure from your amorous solicitations.†   (source)
  • As soon as he entered he noticed and felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a curious embarrassment among some of those present.†   (source)
  • "Here are some pretty Easter daisies," he said, "and enough of them to furnish oracles to all the amorous maids in the place."†   (source)
  • In his eyes and to his conviction, Mme. de Chevreuse not only served the queen in her political intrigues, but, what tormented him still more, in her amorous intrigues.†   (source)
  • This personage was M. Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.†   (source)
  • Then, having gazed at him for a few moments with an amorous and humid look, she said hurriedly— "Ah!†   (source)
  • Never were seen more amorous eyes, more rounded limbs, a nobler air, or a more gracefully flowing skirt.†   (source)
  • You recollect with what amorous curiosity your thought and your gaze were riveted upon this little whirlwind, hissing and humming with wings of purple and azure, in the midst of which floated an imperceptible body, veiled by the very rapidity of its movement.†   (source)
  • He was to send his letters to Mere Rollet, and she gave him such precise instructions about a double envelope that he admired greatly her amorous astuteness.†   (source)
  • Then d'Artagnan, disposed to become the most tender of lovers, was at the same time a very devoted friend, In the midst of his amorous projects for the mercer's wife, he did not forget his friends.†   (source)
  • It resulted from this that the real stake in this game, which two most powerful kingdoms played for the good pleasure of two amorous men, was simply a kind look from Anne of Austria.†   (source)
  • She became herself, as it were, an actual part of these imaginings, and realised the love-dream of her youth as she saw herself in this type of amorous women whom she had so envied.†   (source)
  • Another amorous woman!†   (source)
  • The Lord of the estate on which the chapel of the curacy was situated saw this pretend sister, and became enamoured of her—amorous to such a degree that he proposed to marry her.†   (source)
  • Her eyelids seemed chiselled expressly for her long amorous looks in which the pupil disappeared, while a strong inspiration expanded her delicate nostrils and raised the fleshy corner of her lips, shaded in the light by a little black down.†   (source)
  • Fleur-de-Lys was his last passion but one, a pretty girl, a charming dowry; accordingly, one fine morning, quite cured, and assuming that, after the lapse of two months, the Bohemian affair must be completely finished and forgotten, the amorous cavalier arrived on a prancing horse at the door of the Gondelaurier mansion.†   (source)
  • The captain, much more occupied with her than with that pack of the rabble, was amorously rumpling her girdle behind.†   (source)
  • We have hinted that by the side of these views of the leveling and simplifying minister, which belong to history, the chronicler is forced to recognize the lesser motives of the amorous man and jealous rival.†   (source)
  • First upon the eyes, that had so coveted all worldly pomp; then upon the nostrils, that had been greedy of the warm breeze and amorous odours; then upon the mouth, that had uttered lies, that had curled with pride and cried out in lewdness; then upon the hands that had delighted in sensual touches; and finally upon the soles of the feet, so swift of yore, when she was running to satisfy her desires, and that would now walk no more.†   (source)
  • It was in the arbour, on the same seat of old sticks where formerly Leon had looked at her so amorously on the summer evenings.†   (source)
  • Milady seemed overcome with joy, and made Kitty repeat the smallest details of the pretended interview of the soubrette with de Wardes when he received the letter; how he had responded; what was the expression of his face; if he seemed very amorous.†   (source)
  • All the sensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching heart opened out amorously.†   (source)
  • His warm and fickle imagination, which in Gascony had rendered formidable to young chambermaids, and even sometimes their mistresses, had never dreamed, even in moments of delirium, of half the amorous wonders or a quarter of the feats of gallantry which were here set forth in connection with names the best known and with details the least concealed.†   (source)
  • With respect to Aramis, though having the air of having nothing secret about him, he was a young fellow made up of mysteries, answering little to questions put to him about others, and having learned from him the report which prevailed concerning the success of the Musketeer with a princess, wished to gain a little insight into the amorous adventures of his interlocutor.†   (source)
  • In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas!†   (source)
  • The only way I could conceive, in my blood-loaded, picturesque amorousness.†   (source)
  • And at the very same time he represented physical as well as mental attributes which were agreeable to her—amorousness without the courage at the time, anyhow, to annoy her too much; reverence which yet included her as a very human being; a mental and physical animation which quite matched and companioned her own.†   (source)
  • There remained only those rare periods of amorousness which still came to them at times but did not last long.†   (source)
  •   Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
      By their own beauties, or, if love be blind,
      It best agrees with night.   (source)
    amorous = love-making
  • As to the gossip Rupert might now be spreading about our supposed amorous dalliance, I preferred not to think.†   (source)
  • I teased, enjoying the incongruous thought of him entwined in amorous embrace with the ample Mrs. Fitz.†   (source)
  • Then let amorous kisses dwell
    On our lips, begin and tell
    A Thousand and a Hundred score
    A Hundred, and a Thousand more.†   (source)
  • He settles down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips with a passage of his amorous tongue.†   (source)
  • I Am He That Aches with Love
    I am he that aches with amorous love;
    Does the earth gravitate?†   (source)
  • Buck Mulligan suspired amorously.†   (source)
  • Young Stephen said indeed to his best remembrance they had but the one doxy between them and she of the stews to make shift with in delights amorous for life ran very high in those days and the custom of the country approved with it.†   (source)
  • In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d) extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e) an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds divided.†   (source)
  • To the Garden the World
    To the garden the world anew ascending,
    Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
    The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
    Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,
    The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
    Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
    My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for
    reasons, most wondrous,
    Existing I peer and penetrate still,
    Content with the present, content with the past,
    By my side or back of me Eve following,
    Or in front, and I following her just the same.†   (source)
  • I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
    I behold from the beach your crooked fingers,
    I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me,
    We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,
    Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse,
    Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.†   (source)
  • perfect body,
    The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back
    lying and floating,
    The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous aching,
    The divine list for myself or you or for any one making,
    The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,
    The mystic deliria, the madness amorous, the utter abandonment,
    (Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
    I love you, O you entirely possess me,
    O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
    Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more
    lawless than we;)
    The furious storm through me careering, I passionately trembling.†   (source)
  • and so painful,
    The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest,
    The like of the same I feel, the like of the same in others,
    The young man that flushes and flushes, and the young woman that
    flushes and flushes,
    The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to
    repress what would master him,
    The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,
    The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers,
    the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
    The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked,
    The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the
    sun, the mother never turning he†   (source)
  • That the winds are really not infectious,
    That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which
    is so amorous after me,
    That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
    That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited
    themselves in it,
    That all is clean forever and forever,
    That the cool drink from the well tastes so good,
    That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy,
    That the fruits of th†   (source)
  • The Dalliance of the Eagles
    Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
    Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
    The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
    The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
    Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
    In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
    Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
    A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
    Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
    She hers, he his, pursuing.†   (source)
  • love,
    Earth of chaste love, life that is only life after love,
    The body of my love, the body of the woman I love, the body of the
    man, the body of the earth,
    Soft forenoon airs that blow from the south-west,
    The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the
    full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes
    his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is
    satisfied;
    The wet of woods through the early hours,
    Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with
    an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
    The smell of apples, aromas from crush'd sage-plant, mint, birch-bark,†   (source)
  • May be, the amorous count solicits her In the unlawful purpose.†   (source)
  • Sure my brother is amorous on Hero, and hath withdrawn her father to break with him about it.†   (source)
  • "Go we then sup," quoth he, "as for the best;
    These amorous folk some time must have rest."†   (source)
  • TITANIA Then I must be thy lady; but I know When thou hast stol'n away from fairy-land, And in the shape of Corin sat all day, Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love To amorous Phillida.†   (source)
  • But I,—that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as†   (source)
  • —Now I feed myself With most delicious poison:—think on me, That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black, And wrinkled deep in time?†   (source)
  • The repentance of her lover at the Bath, and how brought by the just alarm of his fit of sickness to abandon her; the just caution given there against even the lawful intimacies of the dearest friends, and how unable they are to preserve the most solemn resolutions of virtue without divine assistance; these are parts which, to a just discernment, will appear to have more real beauty in them all the amorous chain of story which introduces it.†   (source)
  • But the one to whom my arrival gave the greatest pleasure was the duke's second son, Fernando by name, a gallant youth, of noble, generous, and amorous disposition, who very soon made so intimate a friend of me that it was remarked by everybody; for though the elder was attached to me, and showed me kindness, he did not carry his affectionate treatment to the same length as Don Fernando.†   (source)
  • art thou so amorous?†   (source)
  • The girl was very pretty, and sang; she looked amorously at her Theatin, and from time to time pinched his fat cheeks.†   (source)
  • 'Tis pitiful; but yet Iago knows That she with Cassio hath the act of shame A thousand times committed; Cassio confess'd it: And she did gratify his amorous works With that recognizance and pledge of love Which I first gave her; I saw it in his hand: It was a handkerchief, an antique token My father gave my mother.†   (source)
  • He came too late, the ship was under sail; But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.†   (source)
  • A proper stripling, and an amorous!†   (source)
  • The princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love, Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn, And here are to be answer'd.†   (source)
  • Not otherwise than when a kite, tremendous bird, is beheld by the feathered generation soaring aloft, and hovering over their heads, the amorous dove, and every innocent little bird, spread wide the alarm, and fly trembling to their hiding-places.†   (source)
  • So said he, and forbore not glance or toy
    Of amorous intent; well understood
    Of Eve, whose eye darted contagious fire.†   (source)
  • I will only tell thee that, either fate being envious of so great a boon placed in my hands by good fortune, or perhaps (and this is more probable) this castle being, as I have already said, enchanted, at the time when I was engaged in the sweetest and most amorous discourse with her, there came, without my seeing or knowing whence it came, a hand attached to some arm of some huge giant, that planted such a cuff on my jaws that I have them all bathed in blood, and then pummelled me in such a way that I am in a worse plight than yesterday when the carriers, on account of Rocinante's misbehaviour, inflicted o†   (source)
  • —Menas, I did not think This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm For such a petty war; his soldiership Is twice the other twain: but let us rear The higher our opinion, that our stirring Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck The ne'er lust-wearied Antony.†   (source)
  • We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio, The narrow-prying father, Minola, The quaint musician, amorous Licio; All for my master's sake, Lucentio.†   (source)
  • Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin: The main consents are had; and here we'll stay To see our widower's second marriage-day.†   (source)
  • Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray
    Had in her sober livery all things clad;
    Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
    They to their grassy couch, these to their nests
    Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
    She all night long her amorous descant sung;
    Silence was pleased: Now glowed the firmament
    With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led
    The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
    Rising in clouded majesty, at length
    Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,
    And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.†   (source)
  • I know we shall have revelling to-night: I will assume thy part in some disguise, And tell fair Hero I am Claudio; And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart, And take her hearing prisoner with the force And strong encounter of my amorous tale: Then, after to her father will I break; And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.†   (source)
  • Which interval she employed in making ready every engine of amorous warfare for the renewing of the attack when dinner should be over.†   (source)
  • The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.†   (source)
  • [Aside] Well, I must wait, And watch withal; for, but I be deceiv'd, Our fine musician groweth amorous†   (source)
  • This squier, which that hight Aurelius,
    On Dorigen that was so amorous,
    Of aventure happen'd her to meet
    Amid the town, right in the quickest* street, *nearest
    As she was bound* to go the way forthright *prepared, going <29>
    Toward the garden, there as she had hight.†   (source)
  • Thammuz came next behind,
    Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured
    The Syrian damsels to lament his fate
    In amorous ditties all a summer's day,
    While smooth Adonis from his native rock
    Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood
    Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale
    Infected Sion's daughters with like heat,
    Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch
    Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led,
    His eye surveyed the dark idolatries
    Of alienated Judah.†   (source)
  • Chapter v. An apology for all heroes who have good stomachs, with a description of a battle of the amorous kind.†   (source)
  • her word with him for another, drew nearer to Don Quixote's bed and stood still to see what would come of this talk which he could not understand; but when he perceived the wench struggling to get free and Don Quixote striving to hold her, not relishing the joke he raised his arm and delivered such a terrible cuff on the lank jaws of the amorous knight that he bathed all his mouth in blood, and not content with this he mounted on his ribs and with his feet tramped all over them at a pace rather smarter than a trot.†   (source)
  • "I will," said the boy, and he went on to say, "This figure that you see here on horseback, covered with a Gascon cloak, is Don Gaiferos himself, whom his wife, now avenged of the insult of the amorous Moor, and taking her stand on the balcony of the tower with a calmer and more tranquil countenance, has perceived without recognising him; and she addresses her husband, supposing him to be some traveller, and holds with him all that conversation and colloquy in the ballad that runs— If you, sir knight, to France are bound, Oh!†   (source)
  • That though the pleasures arising from such pure love may be heightened and sweetened by the assistance of amorous desires, yet the former can subsist alone, nor are they destroyed by the intervention of the latter.†   (source)
  • This parish clerk, this amorous Absolon,
    That is for love alway so woebegone,
    Upon the Monday was at Oseney
    With company, him to disport and play;
    And asked upon cas* a cloisterer** *occasion **monk
    Full privily after John the carpenter;
    And he drew him apart out of the church,
    And said, "I n'ot;* I saw him not here wirch** *know not **work
    Since Saturday; I trow that he be went
    For timber, where our abbot hath him sent.†   (source)
  • To the nuptial bower
    I led her blushing like the morn: All Heaven,
    And happy constellations, on that hour
    Shed their selectest influence; the Earth
    Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;
    Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
    Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings
    Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub,
    Disporting, till the amorous bird of night
    Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening-star
    On his hill top, to light the bridal lamp.†   (source)
  • In reality, I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido, but that happily very few of our play-house critics understand enough of Latin to read Virgil.†   (source)
  • broad:
    She, as a veil, down to the slender waist
    Her unadorned golden tresses wore
    Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved
    As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied
    Subjection, but required with gentle sway,
    And by her yielded, by him best received,
    Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
    And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.†   (source)
  • And at the last he took conclusion,
    That there as first Arcite and Palamon
    Hadde for love the battle them between,
    That in that selve* grove, sweet and green, *self-same
    There as he had his amorous desires,
    His complaint, and for love his hote fires,
    He woulde make a fire*, in which th' office *funeral pyre
    Of funeral he might all accomplice;
    And *let anon command* to hack and hew *immediately gave orders*
    The oakes old, and lay them *on a rew* *in a row*
    In culpons*, well arrayed for to brenne**.†   (source)
  • I hope to God hereafter ye shall know
    That there is none so great felicity
    In marriage, nor ever more shall be,
    That you shall let* of your salvation; *hinder
    So that ye use, as skill is and reason,
    The lustes* of your wife attemperly,** *pleasures **moderately
    And that ye please her not too amorously,
    And that ye keep you eke from other sin.†   (source)
  • It heightens and inflames our passions (generally indeed that passion which is uppermost in our mind), so that the angry temper, the amorous, the generous, the good-humoured, the avaricious, and all other dispositions of men, are in their cups heightened and exposed.†   (source)
  • There they their fill of love and love's disport
    Took largely, of their mutual guilt the seal,
    The solace of their sin; till dewy sleep
    Oppressed them, wearied with their amorous play,
    Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit,
    That with exhilarating vapour bland
    About their spirits had played, and inmost powers
    Made err, was now exhaled; and grosser sleep,
    Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams
    Incumbered, now had left them; up they rose
    As from unrest; and, each the other viewing,
    Soon found thei†   (source)
  • "Indeed, sir," answered the lady, with some warmth, "I cannot think there is anything easier than to cheat an old woman with a profession of love, when her complexion is amorous; and, though she is my aunt, I must say there never was a more liquorish one than her ladyship.†   (source)
  • his forming hands a creature grew,
    Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair,
    That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed now
    Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained
    And in her looks; which from that time infused
    Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
    And into all things from her air inspired
    The spirit of love and amorous delight.†   (source)
  • In short, no sooner had the amorous parley ended and the lady had unmasked the royal battery, by carelessly letting her handkerchief drop from her neck, than the heart of Mr Jones was entirely taken, and the fair conqueror enjoyed the usual fruits of her victory.†   (source)
  • The trophies of both these her husband always bore about on his head and face; for if ever human head did by its horns display the amorous glories of a wife, Zekiel's did; nor did his well-scratched face less denote her talents (or rather talons) of a different kind.†   (source)
  • Not that the bride was displeased with the embraces of her amorous bridegroom; for, though some have remarked that cats are subject to ingratitude, yet women and cats too will be pleased and purr on certain occasions.†   (source)
  • She was, indeed, well convinced that Sophia possessed the first place in Jones's affections; and yet, haughty and amorous as this lady was, she submitted at last to bear the second place; or, to express it more properly in a legal phrase, was contented with the possession of that of which another woman had the reversion.†   (source)
  • The doctor now interposed, and prevented the effects of a wrath which was kindling between Jones and Thwackum; after which the former gave a loose to mirth, sang two or three amorous songs, and fell into every frantic disorder which unbridled joy is apt to inspire; but so far was he from any disposition to quarrel, that he was ten times better humoured, if possible, than when he was sober.†   (source)
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