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  • The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.   (source)
  • Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.   (source)
  • When the meal was finally ready, we all sat together and savored the sensuous experience of a delicious Persian meal.†   (source)
  • He had a boyish face, a pug nose, and sensuous lips that seemed to be fighting back a grin.†   (source)
  • They would be alone together soon, with more contradictions—hilarity and sensuousness, desire and fear at their recklessness, awe and impatience to begin.†   (source)
  • The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains.†   (source)
  • That was the way she entered Pedro's body, hot, voluptuous, perfumed, totally sensuous.†   (source)
  • I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet.†   (source)
  • Little love, not here, but a steady undercurrent of sensuousness.†   (source)
  • Lamia's mouth was wide and expressive to the point of being sensuous, curled slightly at the coruers in a slight smile which might be cruel or merely playful.†   (source)
  • Slowly the energy left her, and her hands began to move in slow arcs, soothing and sensuous, the wild drums silent.†   (source)
  • From the sensuousness of a woman with a baby at her breast into the seductive mischief of Krishna's smile.†   (source)
  • The booze floating, sludgelike, just beneath the surface of my skin made me look like a fleshy wastrel, just sensuous enough to be disreputable.†   (source)
  • Most of the women in the hall seemed cast from a specific type—decorative, precisely turned out, an odd mingling of untouchable sensuousness.†   (source)
  • By contrast it made me almost weak to see the way Yasuda-san, with his graceful, sculpted arm, put a bite of braised beef into his mouth with his lips parted sensuously.†   (source)
  • As the music, soulful and sensuous, comes up he dances over to RUTH and tries to get her to dance with him.†   (source)
  • His lips had looked sensuous before; now they were merely big and thick.†   (source)
  • Commander Mancuso was given to awarding this sensuous pastime in return for above-average performance.†   (source)
  • 'Kill with me tonight,' she whispered as sensuously as a lover.†   (source)
  • He liked to encircle her ankle loosely with his fingers as he played cards with Nately, Dunbar and Hungry Joe, to lightly and lovingly caress the downy skin of her fair, smooth thigh with the backs of his nails or, dreamily, sensuously, almost unconsciously, slide his proprietary, respectful hand up the shell-like ridge of her spine beneath the elastic strap of the top of the two-piece bathing suit she always wore to contain and cover her tiny, long-nippled breasts.†   (source)
  • A clarinet was vibrating sensuously and the men were standing up and moving eagerly forward.†   (source)
  • The gunman, about forty, had large sad eyes, hound-dog eyes, a nose bashed red by the slow blows of two decades of drink, and a sensuous mouth.†   (source)
  • She's ambitious, full of nerves, highly sensuous without being fully aware of it.†   (source)
  • You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.†   (source)
  • And it did hurt my feelings a little that Josh insinuated that I had worn a really sensuous outfit just to torment and tease him—which I did not, by the way!†   (source)
  • She hated her nose and thought that her mouth, while sensuous, was slightly too large for her face.†   (source)
  • Never, never, she told me, would she ever forget this initial meal they had together, the sensuously concocted dinner which he fashioned from, of all humble things, calf's liver and leeks.†   (source)
  • I was only twenty-one, poor, without exciting prospects, and enjoying the indolent sensuous life.†   (source)
  • Sandalwood paste smeared her swelling hips, under her breasts were dark painted shadows which gave them sensuous depth, the nipples were tipped with red.†   (source)
  • I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it — overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.   (source)
    sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the mind
  • The word "sensuous," had the effect of further disquieting Tom, but before he could invent a protest the coupe came to a stop, and Daisy signaled us to draw up alongside.   (source)
  • She trailed an index finger sensuously along the fender, feeling the hollow of each and every dent.†   (source)
  • Her face was a perfect oval, her lips thick and sensuous.†   (source)
  • The thick sensuous lips had hidden them before, but now his teeth were bared.†   (source)
  • There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling.†   (source)
  • Sunset brought a sensuous stillness over the river, soon broken by a chorus of insect noises and night-bird calls.†   (source)
  • The foothills were sere and sensuous, their brown curves and sudden upthrustings contrasting strongly with the verdant monochrome of the Sea of Grass.†   (source)
  • His face was a study in purposeful energy: low brow, sharp cheekbones, compact nose, solid jaw, and a wide mouth that suggested both a sensuous side and a stubborn streak.†   (source)
  • Grass stretched away forever, rippling sensuously in the slight breeze and seeming to lap like a green surf at the base of the bluffs.†   (source)
  • The naked women are presented in the same manner as the plates of meat and dead lobsters, with the same attention to the play of candlelight on skin, the same lusciousness, the same sensuous and richly rendered detail, the same painterly delight in tactility.†   (source)
  • And then she began to dance, a slow sensuous movement; the smoke of a hundred cigars clinging to her like the thinnest of veils.†   (source)
  • The daughter was a pretty girl with a ripe sensuous body, but her movements across the stage were amateurish imitations of her mother's.†   (source)
  • I only dressed up because he'd said to; I didn't even think it was a "sensuous" outfit in the first place, but I'm starting to realize that guys and girls definitely think differently about a few things!†   (source)
  • With his sensuous mouth, as though sampling the contents of a bonbon box, he had savored the words blow your brains out.†   (source)
  • The sky and the sea to the west were raven meeting crow, as feathery smooth and sensuous and inviting as death.†   (source)
  • "This here Golden Day is enough to shock anybody," a girl said, smoothing her apron over the smooth sensuous roll of her stomach.†   (source)
  • The light filtered through the steeples of the city, and a faultless linen of the purest and most sensuous gold spread toward us on the water, like a glass of Chablis spilled across a light-stained table.†   (source)
  • A grinning doll of orange-and-black tissue paper with thin flat cardboard disks forming its head and feet and which some mysterious mechanism was causing to move up and down in a loose-jointed, shoulder-shaking, infuriatingly sensuous motion, a dance that was completely detached from the black, mask-like face.†   (source)
  • The older of the two, approximately forty, had enormous sad eyes and a mouth sufficiently sensuous to assure him a contract to star in Revlon lipstick advertisements.†   (source)
  • I sat, seeing her go toward a door, the train of her gown trailing sensuously over the oriental carpet.†   (source)
  • She had been a curvy, sensuous girl with dark red hair and a wide mouth.†   (source)
  • Then the orchestra played a waltz or a tango, something that had a slow and sensuous rhythm.†   (source)
  • Sunday morning in the summer is almost too good, almost sensuously pleasant.†   (source)
  • Woman is the guide to the sublime acme of sensuous adventure.†   (source)
  • He turned over words with the sensuous abandon of a cat rolling in catnip.†   (source)
  • There was something oddly sensuous about it.†   (source)
  • The fingers moved once in a while, crushing the grass with lazy, sensuous pleasure.†   (source)
  • Feeling that my plan was working, I resumed my worship of the elder's wife with a cleansed conscience, wondering what it would be like to kiss her, longing to feel some of the sensuous emotions of which my reading had made me conscious.†   (source)
  • There was the sweet and subtle sensuous joy of inhaling and tasting a hundred pleasures of the senses that I had only begun to know as an elderly man.†   (source)
  • He pressed his hips, his back into the earth under him; the earth resisted, but it gave way; it was a silent victory; he felt a dim, sensuous pleasure in the muscles of his legs.†   (source)
  • …into the purlieus of elegance, with no foreword, no warning, the postulation to come after the fact, exposing Henry slowly to the surface aspect—the architecture a little curious, a little femininely flamboyant and therefore to Henry opulent, sensuous, sinful; the inference of great and easy wealth measured by steamboat loads in place of a tedious inching of sweating human figures across cotton fields; the flash and glitter of a myriad carriage wheels, in which women, enthroned and…†   (source)
  • She liked the fire and the radiance of warmth: sleepily alert she sat by the stove, with her legs spread, sucking in the heat, her large earth strength more heavily sensuous than her brother's.†   (source)
  • —See how the sleeping out-flung band, touching the bedside candle, remembers pain, springs back and free while mind and brain sleep on and only make of this adjacent heat some trashy myth of reality's escape or that same sleeping hand, in sensuous marriage with some dulcet surface, is transformed by that same sleeping brain and mind into that same figment-stuff warped out of all experience.†   (source)
  • At this look that seemed to come from my own soul all reality fell away, even the reality of my sensuous love of her.†   (source)
  • I put the towel around my shoulders and lay in almost sensuous warmth with the sky bright and the grass rough on my bare arms.†   (source)
  • Bitterly he reflected that his father's life had devoured whatever had served it, and that few men had had more sensuous enjoyment, or had been more ruthless in their demands on others.†   (source)
  • …for ten minutes together projects the most lovely music without regard into the most impossible places, into respectable drawing rooms and attics and into the midst of chattering, guzzling, yawning and sleeping listeners, and exactly as it strips this music of its sensuous beauty, spoils and scratches and beslimes it and yet cannot altogether destroy its spirit, just so does life, the so-called reality, deal with the sublime picture-play of the world and make a hurley-burley of it.†   (source)
  • For she talked to me about Herman and about childhood, mine and her own, and about those years of childhood when the capacity for love, in its first youth, embraces not only both sexes, but all and everything, sensuous and spiritual, and endows all things with a spell of love and a fairylike ease of transformation such as in later years comes again only to a chosen few and to poets, and to them rarely.†   (source)
  • It had the sensuous pleasure of a surrender long delayed—to pronounce the name and to have him hear it.†   (source)
  • She was a powerful old lady, six feet tall, with the big bones of a man, and a heavy full-jawed face, sensuous and complacent, and excellently equipped with a champing mill of strong yellow horse-teeth.†   (source)
  • It is self-pampering, a sensuous luxury, to let yourself pretend to be angry, if only for a little while, with someone you really like.†   (source)
  • She saw second-hand furniture, an Oriental rug of rare texture and sensuous color, jade ash trays, pieces of sculpture that came from historical excavations, anything he had wished to seize, helped by the sudden fortune of Wynand's patronage.†   (source)
  • She had thick hair of an oaken color, evenly parted in the middle; her skin was pearl-pale, and transparently delicate; her jaw was long, full, and sensuous—her face was like that of one of the preRaphaelite women.†   (source)
  • Louis Blues" and then "Honeysuckle Rose," singing as his fingers ran over the keys, with his eyes turning up wildly in his head, drawing out the first words of the song long, sweet, and high, with a sensuously slow half-smile on his lips, holding it till I felt myself looking at Jack and laughing uneasily and almost breathing with relief when he swung off the high note into the rest of the piece.†   (source)
  • Of the delicate and sensuous intelligence of the Greeks, their feminine grace, the constructive power and subtlety of their intelligence, the instability of their character, and the structure, restraint and perfection of their forms, he said nothing.†   (source)
  • Gant, faced with the loss of sensuous delight, knowing the time had come when all his Rabelaisian excess in eating, drinking, and loving must come under the halter, knew of no gain that could compensate him for the loss of libertinism; he felt, too, the sharp ache of regret, feeling that he had possessed powers, had wasted chances, such as his partnership with Will Pentland, that might have given him position and wealth.†   (source)
  • And from the mellow gloom of the church, the rich distant organ, the quiet nasal voice of the Scotch minister, the interminable prayers, and the rich little pictures of Christian mythology which he had collected as a child under the instruction of the spinsters, he gathered something of the pain, the mystery, the sensuous beauty of religion, something deeper and greater than this austere decency.†   (source)
  • He wakened at once, sensuously alert.†   (source)
  • As his load lightened with the progress of his route, his leaning shoulder rose with winged buoyancy, his straining limbs grew light: at the end of his labor his flesh, touched sensuously by fatigue, bounded lightly from the earth.†   (source)
  • The sensuous drowsiness of the night was on him.†   (source)
  • She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific.†   (source)
  • I experienced a positive sensuous delight as I crawled into the bed she had made with her hands.†   (source)
  • The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.†   (source)
  • Her gestures, her poses, moues and attitudes were sensuous and suggestive.†   (source)
  • In part, therefore, the attachment which I speak of is the mere sensuous sympathy of dust for dust.†   (source)
  • If only he could have a girl as pretty as this Hortense Briggs, with her small, sensuous mouth and her bright hard eyes.†   (source)
  • He had declined three dinner invitations in favour of this feast; but though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand.†   (source)
  • They drank the bottle of wine while a faint wind rocked the pine needles and the sensuous heat of early afternoon made blinding freckles on the checkered luncheon cloth.†   (source)
  • What there was in it of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to the lad himself to be remote from sense, and was for that very reason all the more dangerous.†   (source)
  • The faces of the barmaidens had risen in colour, each having a pink flush on her cheek; their manners were still more vivacious than before—more abandoned, more excited, more sensuous, and they expressed their sentiments and desires less euphemistically, laughing in a lackadaisical tone, without reserve.†   (source)
  • When they walked down the aisle of the theatre, greeted by the nervous twanging and discord of untuned violins and the sensuous, heavy fragrance of paint and powder, he moved in a sphere of epicurean delight.†   (source)
  • That would depend upon whether the germs of staunch comradeship underlay the temporary emotion, or whether it were a sensuous joy in her form only, with no substratum of everlastingness.†   (source)
  • In fact he was one of those sea-dogs in whom all the hardship and peril of naval life in the great prolonged wars of his time never impaired the natural instinct for sensuous enjoyment.†   (source)
  • Sensuous enjoyment—well, even if he had had it, it would have dulled in a year, and he had gained something instead, which seemed to increase the longer they lived together.†   (source)
  • His fine taste had given him an inkling that Andalusia was too soft and sensuous, a little vulgar even, to satisfy his ardour; and his imagination dwelt more willingly among the wind-swept distances of Castile and the rugged magnificence of Aragon and Leon.†   (source)
  • He saw that there was no mood of the mind that had not its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their true relations, wondering what there was in frankincense that made one mystical, and in ambergris that stirred one's passions, and in violets that woke the memory of dead romances, and in musk that troubled the brain, and in champak that stained the imagination; and seeking often to elaborate a real psychology of perfumes, and to estimate the several influences…†   (source)
  • To the aesthetic, sensuous, pagan pleasure in natural life and lush womanhood which his son Angel had lately been experiencing in Var Vale, his temper would have been antipathetic in a high degree, had he either by inquiry or imagination been able to apprehend it.†   (source)
  • A LITTLE INTERLUDE Amory wandered slowly up the avenue and thought of the night as inevitably his—the pageantry and carnival of rich dusk and dim streets …. it seemed that he had closed the book of fading harmonies at last and stepped into the sensuous vibrant walks of life.†   (source)
  • He lay in a trance, sensuous but healthy, through which the talk of the two others did not seem particularly sad—they were discussing as to whether or no it is possible to be friends with an Englishman.†   (source)
  • Therefore the dusky, golden softness of this man's sensuous flame of life, that flowed off his flesh like the flame from a candle, not baffled and gripped into incandescence by thought and spirit as her life was, seemed to her something wonderful, beyond her.†   (source)
  • And later it was Flora Brandt, the very sensuous and not unpleasing American girl whom Roberta had seen Clyde cultivating from time to time.†   (source)
  • And George Coppard, proud in his bearing, handsome, and rather bitter; who preferred theology in reading, and who drew near in sympathy only to one man, the Apostle Paul; who was harsh in government, and in familiarity ironic; who ignored all sensuous pleasure:—he was very different from the miner.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he felt an overwhelming desire to let himself go to the devil—not to go violently as a gentleman should, but to sink safely and sensuously out of sight.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his affection itself was less fire than radiance, and, with regard to the other sex, when he ceased to believe he ceased to follow: contrasting in this with many impressionable natures, who remain sensuously infatuated with what they intellectually despise.†   (source)
  • The excessive physical charm of the Creole had first attracted her, for Edna had a sensuous susceptibility to beauty.†   (source)
  • A poem about Mecca—the Caaba of Union—the thornbushes where pilgrims die before they have seen the Friend—they flitted next; he thought of his wife; and then the whole semi-mystic, semi-sensuous overturn, so characteristic of his spiritual life, came to end like a landslip and rested in its due place, and he found himself riding in the jungle with his dear Cyril.†   (source)
  • Never had that lady seemed a more tempting subject than at that moment, seated there like some sensuous Madonna, with the gleam of the fading day enriching her splendid color.†   (source)
  • She was attempting to show him a new step in a genial and yet coquettish way, and with an amused, sensuous look.†   (source)
  • And when Clyde was introduced to her, she beamed upon him in a melting and sensuous way which troubled him not a little.†   (source)
  • The fair, plump, sensuous Rita!†   (source)
  • To him, dull as he was, she was just another girl—fairly pretty, obviously sensuous and inexperienced, a silly who could be taken by a few soft words—a show of seemingly sincere affection, talk of the opportunity of a broader, freer life on the road, in other great cities, as his wife.†   (source)
  • The truth in regard to Esta was that in spite of her guarded up-bringing, and the seeming religious and moral fervor which at times appeared to characterize her, she was just a sensuous, weak girl who did not by any means know yet what she thought.†   (source)
  • And deliberately, and of a purpose, she made a pursy, sensuous mouth—the kind she could make—and practised a play of the lips that caused them to seem to want to kiss him—a mouth that tempted him to distraction.†   (source)
  • At the same time, because of a warm, imaginative, sensuous temperament, she was filled—once she reached fifteen and sixteen—with the world-old dream of all of Eve's daughters from the homeliest to the fairest—that her beauty or charm might some day and ere long smite bewitchingly and so irresistibly the soul of a given man or men.†   (source)
  • It was not possible for her to have received a stranger with repulsion more incisive; yet she was apparently as passionless as a statue, only the small head was a little tilted, the nostrils a little drawn, and the sensuous lower lip pushed the upper the least bit out of its natural curvature.†   (source)
  • In trying to produce the sensuous effects of opera, the fashionable drama has become so flaccid in its sentimentality, and the intellect of its frequenters so atrophied by disuse, that the reintroduction of problem, with its remorseless logic and iron framework of fact, inevitably produces at first an overwhelming impression of coldness and inhuman rationalism.†   (source)
  • In two minutes Mr. Rann appeared at the door with very deferential bows, which, however, were far from conciliating Pug, who gave a sharp bark and ran across the room to reconnoitre the stranger's legs; while the two puppies, regarding Mr. Rann's prominent calf and ribbed worsted stockings from a more sensuous point of view, plunged and growled over them in great enjoyment.†   (source)
  • He was not born an idealist, and his fastidiously dry and sensuous soul, with its French tinge of cynicism was not capable of dreaming….†   (source)
  • I was made to be a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier.†   (source)
  • After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make.†   (source)
  • This, that all work is now pleasurable; either because of the hope of gain in honour and wealth with which the work is done, which causes pleasurable excitement, even when the actual work is not pleasant; or else because it has grown into a pleasurable habit, as in the case with what you may call mechanical work; and lastly (and most of our work is of this kind) because there is conscious sensuous pleasure in the work itself; it is done, that is, by artists.†   (source)
  • A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour.†   (source)
  • He might not look upon the water and its sparkling ripples, so like sensuous life, without thinking of the Egyptian and her marvellous beauty, and of floating with her here and there through the night, made brilliant by her songs and stories; he might not forget the charm of her manner, the lightness of her laugh, the flattery of her attention, the warmth of her little hand under his upon the tiller of the boat.†   (source)
  • It might be difficult—and it was so—to conceive how he should exist hereafter, so earthly and sensuous did he seem; but surely his existence here, admitting that it was to terminate with his last breath, had been not unkindly given; with no higher moral responsibilities than the beasts of the field, but with a larger scope of enjoyment than theirs, and with all their blessed immunity from the dreariness and duskiness of age.†   (source)
  • If you were an artist, you would think of Mistress Second-Cousin as antique form animated by Christian sentiment—a sort of Christian Antigone—sensuous force controlled by spiritual passion.†   (source)
  • There lies antique beauty, not corpse-like even in death, but arrested in the complete contentment of its sensuous perfection: and here stands beauty in its breathing life, with the consciousness of Christian centuries in its bosom.†   (source)
  • …from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation, at first jarred her as with an electric shock, and then urged themselves on her with that ache belonging to a glut of confused ideas which check…†   (source)
  • She had very thick black hair, straight and oily, and very black eyes, giving a heavy sensuousness to her face.†   (source)
  • She carried her tall graceful body with beautiful erectness, but with the slightly worn sensuousness of fragility and weariness: her lovely eyes were violet, always a little tired, but full of slow surprise and tenderness.†   (source)
  • The former curves of sensuousness were now modulated to lines of devotional passion.†   (source)
  • In a few moments Arabella replied in a curiously low, hungry tone of latent sensuousness: "I've got him to care for me: yes!†   (source)
  • A small boy rushed out, sniffed in the damp, fresh air and turned up the collar of his coat; came three or four couples in a great hurry; came a further scattering of people whose eyes as they emerged glanced invariably, first at the wet street, then at the rain-filled air, finally at the dismal sky; last a dense, strolling mass that depressed him with its heavy odor compounded of the tobacco smell of the men and the fetid sensuousness of stale powder on women.†   (source)
  • He stood close to her, and the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness.†   (source)
  • She had advanced to the secret recesses of sensuousness, yet had hardly crossed the threshold of conventionality.†   (source)
  • Raw, sensuous music accompanies their speech.†   (source)
  • 4 Blow again trumpeter! and for my sensuous eyes, Bring the old pageants, show the feudal world.†   (source)
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