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  • Everything that sensuality strives to be, but falls painfully short.†   (source)
  • Epicurus emphasized, though, that "pleasure" does not necessarily mean sensual pleasure—like eating chocolate, for instance.†   (source)
  • It was not that her sensuality, her sense of the erotic, had died.†   (source)
  • As for most people, his initial sensory contact with Chicago had been the fantastic stink that lingered always in the vicinity of the Union Stock Yards, a Chinook of putrefaction and incinerated hair, "an elemental odor," wrote Upton Sinclair, "raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual and strong."†   (source)
  • It was a surprisingly sensual experience to observe Edward hunting.†   (source)
  • Mr. Rich said it wasn't a high-quality cello, but to my untrained eye it's a masterful work of art, with sensual curves and dark robust wood with a warm honey finish that's smooth to the touch.†   (source)
  • But vampires feel cold as acutely as humans, and the blood of the kill is often the rich, sensual alleviation of that cold.†   (source)
  • For her, however, that solitary rite lacked all sensuality and was simply a way of passing the time until she was hungry.†   (source)
  • Her arched eyebrows suggested a questioning mind, her full lips a sensuality that was indecent for the times.†   (source)
  • Clara's impudent and nonchalant sensuality was also not enough for him.†   (source)
  • But he had the tendency of all wildly disorganized people to suppose that the lives of others were tamer and less sensual and more cerebral than his own.†   (source)
  • The languorous, sensual music of Duke Ellington.†   (source)
  • Caroline's room on the third floor of Doro's house had become a place as mysterious and sensual as this garden.†   (source)
  • And she will accept the strangely pleasant sensation that comes when he writhes beneath her hand and flattens his eyes with a surfeit of sensual delight.†   (source)
  • Our dance was sensual, sexual, and yet somehow innocent.†   (source)
  • These were considered sensual: Nineteenth-century Chinese had far more erotic words for women's feet than for their breasts.†   (source)
  • "Nice," I say, thinking about how sensual it was.†   (source)
  • When a face was so lovely, lips so full, even a veil couldn't block its sensuality.†   (source)
  • The country's sandy white beaches are sensual and the casinos legendary.†   (source)
  • Huge eyes that looked black against her white skin, a sharp nose, a wide mouth, sexily full that may have owned its sensuality to collagen injections.†   (source)
  • The scream was not an expression of sensuality.†   (source)
  • It was oddly sensual this new intimacy she had with her daughter.†   (source)
  • Despite his height and the width of his shoulders, he leads with a grace that is effortless and sensual all at once.†   (source)
  • She began to hum sensually a moment before Hungry Joe hurled his frail body against the door in still one more desperate attack and almost knocked them both down.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the song changed, in midbeat, to something slow with a more quiet, sensual beat.†   (source)
  • I pressed against her, feeling each sensual curve.†   (source)
  • A full-grown one, blonde, dirty, sensual, watched with a speculative curiosity as she drew water from the groaning pump beside the building.†   (source)
  • Her body was still twisted, in contrast to the upright head, contorted in furious struggle, her long bare legs stretched out, her hips turned, the negligee torn, her breasts bursting out of the silk-even in death, sensual.†   (source)
  • The pressure eases, and the kiss turns sensual.†   (source)
  • It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.†   (source)
  • It makes up for in sensuality.†   (source)
  • Carvings of lush-hipped women and sensual men adorn its walls.†   (source)
  • The sensuality, in certain rigors.†   (source)
  • Like he could put up a shelf and also take you to a plateau of sensual pleasure at the same time.†   (source)
  • A man's eyes never stopped searching for beautiful, sensual women, or for sexy men and boys, for that matter.†   (source)
  • Well, don't worry, she said, with a small laugh — that voice of hers implied the possibility of, celebrated the existence of a fantastic life of abiding sensuality — we're just setting up.†   (source)
  • The strippers gyrated into view, accompanied by jarring, quasi-sensual music and the aroused, incontinent applause of the crowd.†   (source)
  • Oedipa found herself after five minutes sucked utterly into the landscape of evil Richard Wharfinger had fashioned for his 17th-century audiences, so preapocalyptic, death-wishful, sensually fatigued, unprepared, a little poignantly, for that abyss of civil war that had been waiting, cold and deep, only a few years ahead of them.†   (source)
  • Here sensuality was escape, proof of manhood for people who could prove it no other way.†   (source)
  • The privilege of choice gave her a feeling achingly sensual.†   (source)
  • On each occasion I was aware of her sensual memory of me beginning to work, linking the present to the past.†   (source)
  • For the most wretched things, he had given them up, for what fades most quickly, for sensual lust, for the good life, for riches!†   (source)
  • A question for science, possibly, but not to the man with the machine-gun: for him it's a thing done, sensual act: he's one with God.†   (source)
  • As a result, Lara felt herself sinking ever deeper into a nightmare of sensuality which filled her with horror whenever she awoke from it.†   (source)
  • Clearly Maria was the only source of information, but she was now too excited by sensuality to be easily probed.†   (source)
  • This is the most incredible example of sensual hallucination and hypnotic suggestion I've ever encountered.†   (source)
  • He began life anew—exploring never-before-imagined sensual pleasures.†   (source)
  • Now it looked boldly sensual, with an accentuated bow of the full purplish lips.†   (source)
  • Finally she speaks softly, her voice angelic, sensual.†   (source)
  • There was something sensual about her figure, outlined against the setting sun.†   (source)
  • I find your love for our children very sensual and exciting.†   (source)
  • She'd called it a picture of her dreams, and to him it had seemed extremely sensual.†   (source)
  • The glass makes me brave, sends waves of sensuality throughout my body.†   (source)
  • In a strange way, it magnified a sensual aspect of her personality, amplifying her natural charisma.†   (source)
  • There was compassion in her photographs, humor and a smooth sensuality.†   (source)
  • Even when she wasn't trying, she was one of the most sensual women I've ever seen.†   (source)
  • To Paul, the gesture seemed oddly sensual, and he wiped at the sweat on his brow.†   (source)
  • In a languid motion, Amanda draped her ponytail over one shoulder, the movement almost sensual.†   (source)
  • The current of sensuality was whipped away from him like a drape.†   (source)
  • He had silver-gray hair, slightly myopic eyes and thin, overhanging, sensual lips.†   (source)
  • She nodded, looking sensual, looking beautiful.†   (source)
  • She lacks Felicity's bold, sensual features, and it gives her an air of fragile beauty.†   (source)
  • Those incredible waves of sensuality that take no effort at all, but just are.†   (source)
  • There was something sensual in that realization, and she let the feeling wash over her.†   (source)
  • It's not sensual pleasure I'm after, she would say, it's happiness.†   (source)
  • Carmen's kisses may have been hot, but Brittany's are more sensual, sexy, and extremely addictive.†   (source)
  • Despite the rash on the backs of his hands—a burn, really—his fingers were sensual.†   (source)
  • I think of how he moved when he fought with Aquilla, that sensual beauty that took my breath away.†   (source)
  • The creamy sauce is a sensual reminder of rare luxuries once taken for granted.†   (source)
  • Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure?†   (source)
  • Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders.†   (source)
  • He saw the firm, sensual mouth in sharp outline.†   (source)
  • His fingers were moving slowly, feeling the texture of the stones with sensual enjoyment.†   (source)
  • He taught her every manner of sensuality he could invent.†   (source)
  • Hallucinations in all their sensual forms.†   (source)
  • Olfactory hallucination, induced by sensual telepathy.†   (source)
  • And then, realizing she was being silly: "Did I tell you that Jake is hung like a horse and a beautiful, sensual lover?"†   (source)
  • Standing close again, she ran her hands over his chest, feeling the tight muscles beneath his shirt, giving in to her own sensuality.†   (source)
  • Then the smile died on her lips, and they became at once sullen and sensual as her eyes narrowed and she breathed the word, 'Drink.'†   (source)
  • And one more thing, Mackenzie, it is not only visual but sensual as well; you can feel, smell, and even taste that uniqueness.†   (source)
  • I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing things living, glowing, captivated by their own temporary beauty.†   (source)
  • The serenity of sailing alone on the ink-blue Aegean Sea became his new heroin trance; the sensuality of sucking moist arni souvlakia right off the skewer became his new Ecstasy; and the rush of cliff diving into the foam-filled ravines of Mykonos became his new cocaine.†   (source)
  • It was hard to remember in the heady and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me.†   (source)
  • For fear of his psychiatrist who was also their censor, they could never be sensual, or even emotional.†   (source)
  • Her breasts though small were beautifully shaped beneath her blouse, and her hips though narrow gave her long, dusty skirt a sharp, sensual angularity.†   (source)
  • The unmade bed, the mess of discarded clothes, a towel on the floor, the room's equatorial warmth were disablingly sensual.†   (source)
  • I stood there absorbing some shock, as if all the sensual pleasures and confusions of these rooms were passing over me like waves and my body were being permeated with these things, so different from the spell of Armand and the tower room where we'd been.†   (source)
  • His most sensual memories—their few minutes in the library, the kiss in Whitehall—were bleached colorless through overuse.†   (source)
  • It was sensual.†   (source)
  • The silk dress she wore seemed to worship every curve and dip of her lithe body, but the small sensual mouth was held tight in disapproval, or perhaps even disgust.†   (source)
  • The old French city had been for the most part burned a long time ago, and the architecture of these days was as it is now, Spanish, which meant that, as we walked slowly through the very narrow street where one cabriolet had to stop for another, we passed whitewashed walls and great courtyard gates that revealed distant lamplit courtyard paradises like our own, only each seemed to hold such promise, such sensual mystery.†   (source)
  • The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation—it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.†   (source)
  • There was something dreadfully sensual about her lounging on the settee in a tiny nightgown of lace and stitched pearls; she became an eerie and powerful seductress, her voice as clear and sweet as ever, though it had a resonance which was womanish, a sharpness sometimes that proved shocking; After days of her usual quiet, she would scoff suddenly at Lestat's predictions about the war; or drinking blood from a crystal glass say that there were no books in the house, we must get more even if we had to steal them, and then coldly tell me of a library she'd heard of, in a palatial mansion in the Faubourg St.-Marie, a woman who collected books as if they were rocks or pressed butterflies.†   (source)
  • In another context, a different profession, she would have seemed motherly in her plumpness, or even sensual, for her unpainted lips were rich in natural color and sweetly bowed, and her face with its rounded cheeks and doll's patches of healthy pink suggested a kindly nature.†   (source)
  • She was sensual.†   (source)
  • How flagrantly, sensually, it reverberated before the altar when she said, "With my body I thee worship."†   (source)
  • Drawing one deep breath, she submerged, held herself down for a count of thirty seconds, and surfaced with a sigh of sheer sensual pleasure.†   (source)
  • And yet part of me wanted to fall right back into his arms, to let him carry me up and away over that sensual rainbow.†   (source)
  • Blankly, she looked around for Peabody, saw the shimmering red drapes that were supposed to add sensuality to a room designed for quick, cheap sex.†   (source)
  • They talked for hours, he took her hand whenever they walked, and though their relationship hadn't become physical yet, there was nonetheless a sensual undercurrent to their conversations that neither could deny.†   (source)
  • He distrusted the sensual type, the ones who looked as if they could eat an alligator raw and tended to be the most passive in bed.†   (source)
  • Sure, they can, Mr. Delta," said the general's wife, leaning forward, her large breasts pressing the sheer fabric of her blouse, her long hair partially obscuring her aging but still sensual soft-featured face.†   (source)
  • His fiancee stands at his side, a sensual young woman whose senator father has no idea that his daughter is secretly engaged to a man of Booth's lowly theatrical calling.†   (source)
  • When she lifted the wineglass and took a sip, puckering her lips as she did so, Mike knew it was one of the most sensual things he'd ever seen.†   (source)
  • Now, her fine, sensual, free-moving body was utterly still, as though being held in readiness for a communion more total than flesh could bear; and a strange chill came into the room, along with a strange resentment.†   (source)
  • Still, the exhaustion produced by so much hard work was not enough to suppress his robust and sensual nature.†   (source)
  • You enlist the help of the savvy, sensual ADA-yours truly-and begin your own undercover investigation.†   (source)
  • They shared the plate of lasagna in front of the fire, and for some reason, the act of eating together—naked and beneath the quilt—seemed almost as sensual as anything else that had happened that night.†   (source)
  • The UPI newspaper syndicate is even questioning the First Lady's morals, suggesting that her sunbathing is too sensual.†   (source)
  • There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.†   (source)
  • This electric, intensely sensual aura would linger long after we left the exhibition and returned to the hotel.†   (source)
  • Nature had equipped the eighteenth century adventurer with beauty, sensuality, and great enthusiasm for women—and so it was with him as well.†   (source)
  • Consider this: Ireland is an island nation that has never developed a navy; a music-loving people who have produced only those harmless lilting ditties as their musical legacy; a bellicose people who have never known the sweet savor of victory in a single war; a Catholic country that has never produced a single doctor of the Church; a magnificently beautiful country, a country to inspire artists, but a country not yet immortalized in art; a philosophic people yet to produce a single philosopher of note; a sensual people who have never mastered the art of preparing food.†   (source)
  • There was something sensual about a woman when she was doing those things, something that spoke of her desire to be considered attractive, Mike thought as he watched.†   (source)
  • The lips were full and sensual.†   (source)
  • It was hard to feel sensual when you didn't feel attractive, and the ensuing three years without a date only served to underscore her feeling of inadequacy.†   (source)
  • He despised her spirit of sacrifice, her severity, her vocation for poverty, and her unshakable chastity, which he felt as a reproach toward his own egotistical, sensual, power-hungry nature.†   (source)
  • In the years since Jim had died, she'd had those moments when she felt rather ....sensual, she liked to call it; but it had been so long since she'd been to bed with a man, she'd sort of come to accept celibacy as a permanent way of life.†   (source)
  • Etched into the sides are the sensual carvings of half-dressed women that brought a blush to my cheek the first time I saw them.†   (source)
  • She tried to bite him cruelly, her coarse, sensual lips stretched back over her teeth like an enraged omnivorous beast's.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo watched the screen, seeing two ancient, flabby men throwing each other around on a piece of canvas; from time to time a sensually grinning blonde advertised soap—but her grin was far less sensual than the wrestling match—and a strong-jawed neuter in a crew cut puffed rapaciously, with unnerving pleasure, on a cigarette.†   (source)
  • It was she who attributed a distinctive sensuality to the enemas he used for his crises of constipation, who convinced him to share them with her, and they took them together in the course of their mad afternoons as they tried to create even more love within their love.†   (source)
  • The music had entered her; it lubricated her joints, softened her bones and flesh to produce this gyrating, fluid, and sensual movement.†   (source)
  • at dinner ....the following weekend at Cape Cod, where they had strolled on the beach and had a picnic in the sand ....or a picnic and a hot-air balloon ride ....Jessica and Julie ....so much alike ....his thoughts of them combining into one ....images joining together ....Julie ....her tears as she watched Phantom of the Opera ....the sensual touch of her fingers as she cut his hair ....her empathy when he lied about his mother dying unexpectedly ....how proud she seemed when she introduced him to her friends at the bar ....God, he loved her.†   (source)
  • And, before Eric could answer, he took a large swallow of his whiskey and said in a different tone, a lower voice, "Because, you know, when I was in the bathroom, I was thinking that, yes, I loved being in your arms, holding you"—he flushed and looked up into Eric's face again—"why not, it's warm, I'm sensual, I like—you—the way you love me, but" —he looked down again—"it's not my battle, not my thing, and I know it, and I can't give up my battle.†   (source)
  • The sounds that filled the night awoke an uneasy sensuality in him, a feeling that not even Allie, the woman he had bedded with in Tull, had been able to bring to the fore.†   (source)
  • I finished taking off her petticoats and verified that there was almost nothing left of the slender girl with jutting knees and elbows who had worked in the Red Lantern, except for her tireless sensual appetite and her voice that sounded like a hoarse bird.†   (source)
  • later after the chaplain had tried to persuade Colonel Cathcart to rescind his order increasing the number of missions to sixty and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.†   (source)
  • Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo watched the screen, seeing two ancient, flabby men throwing each other around on a piece of canvas; from time to time a sensually grinning blonde advertised soap—but her grin was far less sensual than the wrestling match—and a strong-jawed neuter in a crew cut puffed rapaciously, with unnerving pleasure, on a cigarette.†   (source)
  • Sensual.†   (source)
  • Her sensuality was dormant, and on the rare occasions when she brooded over her unfortunate fate, she had a pleasant vision of herself floating in a nebula, without suffering or joy, far away from the cruelties of life, with her daughter as her sole companion.†   (source)
  • She saw him smile for the first time, a slow, mocking, sensual smile that stressed the purpose of his action.†   (source)
  • Her face was made of angular planes, the shape of her mouth clear-cut, a sensual mouth held closed with inflexible precision.†   (source)
  • They were stems of Hawaiian Torch Ginger, three feet tall; their large heads were cones of petals that had the sensual texture of soft leather and the color of blood.†   (source)
  • She lay half-stretched across the corner of a couch, her body relaxed and still; but tension stressed the shape of her mouth on her motionless face, a sensual shape drawn in lines of longing.†   (source)
  • That special pleasure she had felt in watching him eat the food she had prepared-she thought, lying still, her eyes closed, her mind moving, like time, through some realm of veiled slowness-it had been the pleasure of knowing that she had provided him with a sensual enjoyment, that one form of his body's satisfaction had come from her....There is reason, she thought, why a woman would wish to cook for a man ....oh, not as a duty, not as a chronic career, only as a rare and special rite in symbol of ....but what have they made of it, the preachers of woman's duty?†   (source)
  • Instead of finding it crude, she found it strangely attractiveas if, she thought suddenly, as if sensuality were not physical at all, but came from a fine discrimination of the spirit.†   (source)
  • The huge blanket of fur made her look like a child bundled for a snowstorm; the luxurious texture transformed the innocence of the awkward bundle into the elegance of a perversely intentional contrast: into a look of stressed sensuality.†   (source)
  • The smell of feces and urine-stained wood has never struck me as a gratifying sensual experience and my middle-class background had not prepared me for life without scented toilet paper.†   (source)
  • For some reason, they called the domain of the sensual, which disturbed them so much, "vulgar," and used the expression in and out of place.†   (source)
  • He will do anything to escape it—steal or commit acts of violence—or perhaps try to lose himself in sensuality.†   (source)
  • Later at Gage & Tollner's, as Leslie and I dined beneath gaslight on littleneck clams and crabmeat imperial, I came as near to experiencing a pure amalgam of sensual and spiritual felicities as I ever would in my life.†   (source)
  • This Jewish dryad has more sensuality in one of her expressive thumbs than all the locked-up virgins I ever knew in Va.†   (source)
  • What she saw even by the decorous standards of Brooklyn College and the forties was hardly shocking, and Sophie was not so much shocked as fiercely agitated, as if the swift and desperate sensuality of the little scene had the power to stir up embers of a fire within her which she thought had been almost forever quelled.†   (source)
  • The task of projecting your psychotic image life into the mind of another via telepathy and keeping the hallucinations from becoming sensually weaker is almost impossible.†   (source)
  • His cheeks were brown and shiny and hairless and his mouth full—humorous or sensual.†   (source)
  • Gus stood without speaking and Bigger felt a curious sensation"half-sensual, half-thoughtful.†   (source)
  • But his sensuality went no further than his garden and table.†   (source)
  • At the beginning there had been little true sensuality in it.†   (source)
  • Steve hummed a monotonous, suggestive tune, and writhed sensually.†   (source)
  • Later, when I wised up and was debeatified, I was more sensual.†   (source)
  • There was something sensual and horrible the way he put his mouth to the glass.†   (source)
  • The giant bird, when Thea brought him out, seemed to shoulder it with a kind of rise of sensuality.†   (source)
  • The mouth was full, sensual, extraordinarily mobile, the lower lip deeply scooped and pouting.†   (source)
  • In other words, minor sensuality and no trouble.†   (source)
  • His face, whisky-red, was highboned and handsome; his mouth was straightlipped, cruel, and sensual.†   (source)
  • She dressed well: she was well fleshed, but not sensual-looking.†   (source)
  • Stupefied by soma, and exhausted by a long-drawn frenzy of sensuality, the Savage lay sleeping in the heather.†   (source)
  • He felt a sensual pleasure in giving orders to Roark; and he felt also a fury of resentment at Roark's passive compliance.†   (source)
  • The next memory—all these colour-and-sound memories hang together at St Ives—was much more robust; it was highly sensual.†   (source)
  • He was a friend too of Karkov's mistress, who had cat-eyes, reddish gold hair (sometimes more red; sometimes more gold, depending on the coiffeurs), a lazy sensual body (made to fit well against other bodies), a mouth made to fit other mouths, and a stupid, ambitious and utterly loyal mind.†   (source)
  • And there was a kind of luxuriousness in not rushing things, in not driving toward the hot grip and awkward tussle and the leer for the boys back in the dormitory when you got in, a new sensuality in waiting for the massive current to take you where you belonged and would go in the end.†   (source)
  • His brown face was bland and his mouth, red lipped, clear cut as a woman's, frankly sensual, smiled carelessly as he lifted her into the carriage.†   (source)
  • In these dilemmas the devout consult those violet-sashed and sensual-looking gentry who are trooping past me.†   (source)
  • There was the faint, cool kiss of sensuality when dew came on to my cheeks and shins as I ran down the wet green garden paths in the early morning.†   (source)
  • AS THE CREATED FORM of the individual must dissolve, so that of the universe also: When it is known that after the lapse of a hundred thousand years the cycle is to be renewed, the gods called Loka-byuhas, inhabitants of a heaven of sensual pleasure, wander about through the world, with hair let down and flying in the wind, weeping and wiping away their tears with their hands, and with their clothes red and in great disorder.†   (source)
  • Now, love....[The luxurious sobbing, the sensual murmur fade away under the swelling music of the 'blue piano' and the muted trumpet.†   (source)
  • In the first place I have always found that the Trough periods of the human undulation provide excellent opportunity for all sensual temptations, particularly those of sex.†   (source)
  • For me too, its raw and savage gaiety reached an underworld of instinct and breathed a simple honest sensuality.†   (source)
  • During the passion-ate prayers and the chanted hymns I would sit squirming on a bench, longing to grow up so I could run away, listening indifferently to the theme of cosmic annihilation, loving the hymns for their sensual caress, but at last casting furtive glances at Granny and wondering when it would be safe for me to stretch out on the bench and go to sleep.†   (source)
  • But there is not only sensual music.†   (source)
  • It was an expression of sensual pleasure derived from agony—the agony of his victim or his own, or both.†   (source)
  • The student gave the impression of being always stupefied by one form of sensual disturbance or another.†   (source)
  • She would be astonished—one day, I hope, will be—to learn that her whole life is enslaved to this kind of sensuality, which is quite concealed from her by the fact that the quantities involved are small.†   (source)
  • He held the rim of the glass under his nose and inhaled with a loose kind of sensual relish, which, at a dinner table, would have been equivalent to a loud lipsmacking, vulgar there, superlatively elegant here, over a cut-crystal edge pressed to a neat little mustache.†   (source)
  • If my desires had been converted into a concrete religious symbol, the symbol would have looked something like this: a black imp with two horns; a long, curving, forked tail; cloven hoofs, a scaly, naked body; wet, sticky fingers; moist, sensual lips; and lascivious eyes feasting upon the face of the elder's wife ....A religious revival was announced and Granny felt that it was her last chance to bring me to God before I entered the precincts of sin at the public school, for I had already given loud and final notice that I would no longer attend the church school.†   (source)
  • But there against the wall was his guide, standing on some invisible foothold, his arms outstretched against the rock, his body flattened against it, his ear over that patch of fresh mud, listening; listening with supersensual ear, it seemed, and he looked to be supported against the rock by the intensity of his solicitude.†   (source)
  • Just as a short while before I had started aside in fear from the easy thoughtless pleasure of merely sensual love and felt a dread of Maria's beauty that laughingly offered itself, so now I felt a dread of death, a dread, however, that was already conscious of its approaching change into surrender and release.†   (source)
  • But then the kid crowed on Mildred's neck and he changed again from a sensual to a sad or austere face.†   (source)
  • Her lips spoke with difficulty and as though something hindered them, as though a keen frost had numbed her face; but between her lips at the corners of her mouth where the tip of her tongue showed at rare intervals, there was but sweet sensuality and inward delight that contradicted the expression of her face and the tone of her voice.†   (source)
  • He liked to throw back the covers of her bed, then to sit talking quietly for an hour or two, not looking at the bed, not mentioning her writing or buildings or the latest commission she had obtained for Peter Keating, the simplicity of being at ease, here, like this, making the hours more sensual than the moments they delayed.†   (source)
  • Then she did not want him to stop or glance at her, because she wanted to watch the ascetic purity of his person, the absence of all sensuality; to watch that—and to think of what she remembered.†   (source)
  • Although she painted her mouth with carnation lipstick she didn't make it sensual, nor did she have a sensual face, but any excitement, no matter what it was, took up her person, her entire being.†   (source)
  • The air was charged with the fresh sensual heat, the deep green shimmer of heavy leafage, a thousand spermy earth and flower-scents.†   (source)
  • She has unkillable pride in her sensuality and adventurous spirit, and if she has these outrageous colors and parrot bite, what about it?†   (source)
  • The fast cackle-cluck of sensual hens.†   (source)
  • Then, with brooding satisfaction, he studied his sensual deeply scalloped mouth with the pouting underlip, noting that even when he smiled he barely revealed his teeth.†   (source)
  • She was slighter than most of her family; she wasn't shy to make a declaration of honest sensuality under the scrutiny of the whole clan.†   (source)
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