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  • That night, realizing that he wouldn't be able to ignore his conjugal duty forever, Pedro knelt by the bed, on which the nuptial sheet was spread, and offered up this prayer: "Lord, this is not lust or lewdness but to make a child to serve you."†  (source)
  • He turned his mind away from the bed, and from the scenes of conjugal misery that must have been enacted upon it.†  (source)
  • Such is the sole conjugal embrace I am ever to know — such are the endearments which are to solace my leisure hours!†  (source)
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  • While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr. Bhaer and Jo were enjoying promenades of a different sort, along muddy roads and sodden fields.†  (source)
  • The men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality.†  (source)
  • There was an unforeseen surprise, a cessation of the winds and odours of life, a social pressure that would have her think conjugally.†  (source)
  • The hip-splitting pain, the blood on the conjugal bed were proof of her virtue.†  (source)
  • Charlotte, an excellent businesswoman, and highly important as backer, counselor, consultant, gave him just what united them closer than common conjugality.†  (source)
  • Franz would ask for a divorce, and she would take Marie-Claude's place in his large conjugal bed.†  (source)
  • She and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over.†  (source)
  • She never spoke of him again, nor did she offer any explanation for her flight from the conjugal abode.†  (source)
  • Contrary to what they had expected, Gaston sent them a calm, almost paternal reply, with two whole pages devoted to a warning against the fickleness of passion and a final paragraph with unmistakable wishes for them to be as happy as he had been during his brief conjugal experience.†  (source)
  • On his tongue it sounded like the name of a blowsy woman, one of many that had come between him and his conjugal duties.†  (source)
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