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  • She consorts with gang members and criminals.
    consorts = associates
  • She'd brought this on herself. Consorting unchaperoned. A natural wanting had led her unmarried to a cheap motel, but still unsatisfied.
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    consorting = spending time together
  • He disappeared after leaving the school … traveled far and wide … sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very worst of our kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations, that when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was barely recognizable.   (source)
    consorted = spent leisure time with
  • "Now about these folks you've been consorting with," said Joe, turning his attention once again to me.   (source)
    consorting = associating with
  • Unless my father decides that a man from Adarlan might make me a good consort, and then I'll be here until that matter is settled.   (source)
    consort = spouse
  • Invariably accompanied by a gorgeous French secretary-interpreter who may or may not have consorted with Russian royalty.   (source)
    consorted = associated with
  • He knew why the court officers were frowning: the importance of class distinctions, of consorting with your own kind.   (source)
    consorting = associating
  • Time and again she's been seen consorting with the devil down in that meadow!   (source)
    consorting = spending time with
  • They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns.   (source)
    consorted = spent time with
  • Do you allow your slaves to consort with the enemy?   (source)
    consort = associate
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  • ...and courteously he consorted with us the space of seven days.   (source)
    consorted = spend leisure time with
  • A prince consort is not a prostitute.   (source)
    consort = royal spouse
  • No more answering shady Internet requests, and certainly no more consorting with the sons of European crime lords.†   (source)
  • Father explained to us that he had gone plumb crazy, consorting with the inhabitants of the land.†   (source)
  • "So," Desjardins said coldly, "you admit to consorting with gods.†   (source)
  • But as you rightly point out, it's rather gratifying to have consorted with him.†   (source)
  • There are so many considerations to attend to, and surely the daily consorting with the insane would be far from conducive to a tranquil existence.†   (source)
  • Then they slapped him into jail for consorting with dark forces and such.†   (source)
  • Is he saying that my mother is consorting with demons?†   (source)
  • My word, can you imagine what the attorney general would say just knowing that you'd even consorted with me?†   (source)
  • For you yourself told me that this witch consorted with the Devil's spawn who brought the Plague here!†   (source)
  • We know that you have been consorting with humans beyond your borders, teaching them to read, recruiting the mehrun among them, and permitting them to settle your lands.†   (source)
  • Gemma, I want you to know that while I do not approve of your consorting with Circe, I am prepared to forgive you.†   (source)
  • The Overholt had unloosed in him all the Celtic furies with which he had consorted daily in the desolate time after five in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • In a more enlightened day when witches and familiars were better understood, George would have found his, or rather her, end in a bonfire, because if ever there was a familiar, an envoy of the devil, a consorter with evil spirits, George is it.†   (source)
  • Consider, Minister — against all school rules — after all the precautions put in place for his protection —out-of-bounds, at night, consorting with a werewolf and a murderer —and I have reason to believe he has been visiting Hogsmeade illegally too —   (source)
    consorting = spending time with
  • "A feigned rout is less convincing," his father said, "and I am not inclined to trust my plans to a man who consorts with sellswords and savages."   (source)
    consorts = spends time with
  • The early Church feared that if the lineage were permitted to grow, the secret of Jesus and Magdalene would eventually surface and challenge the fundamental Catholic doctrine—that of a divine Messiah who did not consort with women or engage in sexual union.   (source)
    consort = have sexual relations
  • Men spoke of seeing him down in the undercity, in rat pits and black brothels, consorting with mummers, singers, sellswords, even beggars.   (source)
    consorting = spending time with
  • But I think it is more likely to call Peter the High King and his mighty consorts down from the high past.   (source)
    consorts = spends time with; or the people with whom someone spends much time
  • Then said King Peter (for they talked in quite a different style now, having been Kings and Queens for so long), "Fair Consorts, let us now alight from our horses and follow this beast into the thicket; for in all my days I never hunted a nobler quarry."   (source)
    consorts = friends and associates (people with whom one spends time)
  • Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn.   (source)
    consorted = associated
  • Being a stranger to you, she might ask whom I was consorting with and whither I was going.   (source)
    consorting = spending time together -- especially leisure time with people considered undesirable
  • Carter Kane, you claim to be innocent, and yet we find you here consorting with gods.†   (source)
  • We cannot live without it, yet I confess I deplore the necessity of consorting with our long-fingered friends.†   (source)
  • It has been my good fortune, after all, to have consorted not just with Mr Churchill, but with many other great leaders and men of influence - from America and from Europe.†   (source)
  • The minister who had this mission before us and got kicked out for consorting with the natives too much.†   (source)
  • There were rumors about you studying rune magic, of all things, consorting with Mimir and his riffraff, befriending a dwarf Well, one afternoon, your mother was crossing the street in the village, on her way back from the country club.†   (source)
  • And so Yuga, in secret, consorted with his enemies and struck a bargain—she would deliver her master into their hands if they would grant her koukerros.†   (source)
  • The harbor teems with galleys, cogs, and carracks of every sort and size, yet even so I soon found myself consorting with smugglers and pirates.†   (source)
  • She was often the first to the fields and the last to leave, but she rarely spoke or consorted with the other soldiers unless absolutely necessary.†   (source)
  • I never consorted with prostitutes.†   (source)
  • So Rhett consorted with that vile Watling creature and gave her money.†   (source)
  • One of those creatures Rhett consorted with, probably that Watling woman.†   (source)
  • …and steady husbandry within his physical limitations, the body and limbs which still looked too light for the task which he had set himself, who lived like a hermit in the cabin which he rebuilt and where his son was presently born, who consorted with neither white nor black (Clyde did not watch him now; she did not need to) and who was not seen in Jefferson but three times during the next four years and then to appear, be reported by the negroes who seemed to fear either him or…†   (source)
  • Consorting with prostitutes was forbidden, of course, but it was one of those rules that you could occasionally nerve yourself to break.†   (source)
  • A consorter with Yankees?†   (source)
  • It was said that ghost and fiend consorted with him there.†   (source)
  • I know the lad well from much consorting, and I am sure he is not boastful or vainglorious.†   (source)
  • The men were whispering in a corner, no doubt consorting about expenses.†   (source)
  • Mahbub he nearly beat me too, and he went and consorted with the lama no end.†   (source)
  • Though our new-made foretopman was well received in the top and on the gun decks, hardly here was he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the merchant marine, with which companies only had he hitherto consorted.†   (source)
  • It was rumoured that he had been seen brawling with foreign sailors in a low den in the distant parts of Whitechapel, and that he consorted with thieves and coiners and knew the mysteries of their trade.†   (source)
  • In a moment all the heavy sorrow and misery which sleep had banished were upon him again, and he realised that he was no longer a petted prince in a palace, with the adoring eyes of a nation upon him, but a pauper, an outcast, clothed in rags, prisoner in a den fit only for beasts, and consorting with beggars and thieves.†   (source)
  • He consorted with men whose virile pride it was to smoke filthy corncob pipes and to wear filthy sweaters.†   (source)
  • At first I thought the plainness of my appearance, in my country habit, and that all dusty from the road, consorted ill with the greatness of the place to which I was bound.†   (source)
  • At Julian's and at the Beaux Arts a French student was looked upon with disfavour by his fellow-countrymen when he consorted with foreigners, and it was difficult for an Englishman to know more than quite superficially any native inhabitants of the city in which he dwelt.†   (source)
  • In a hotel or among smart people he was excellent, but as soon as they consorted with anyone whom he thought second-rate he left them to their disgrace.†   (source)
  • "Even so," replied the single-minded disciple of the King of Israel, when the young man had ended; "I have found much that is comely and melodious in the maidens, and it is fitting that we who have consorted in so much peril, should abide together in peace.†   (source)
  • If that will be YOUR married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.†   (source)
  • Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white—a poor white of the very poorest.†   (source)
  • I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn.†   (source)
  • Like a dingy London bird among the birds at roost in these pleasant fields, where the sheep are all made into parchment, the goats into wigs, and the pasture into chaff, the lawyer, smoke-dried and faded, dwelling among mankind but not consorting with them, aged without experience of genial youth, and so long used to make his cramped nest in holes and corners of human nature that he has forgotten its broader and better range, comes sauntering home.†   (source)
  • I often paid him a visit in the dark back-room in which he consorted with an ink-jar, a hat-peg, a coal-box, a string-box, an almanac, a desk and stool, and a ruler; and I do not remember that I ever saw him do anything else but look about him.†   (source)
  • Don't think, Hurry, that I'm consorting any plan to put myself in his moccasins, for such a thought doesn't harbor in my mind; but I can't help a little invy!†   (source)
  • CRANE Both clear and muddy streams, for me Are good to fish and sport in: And thus the pious man you see With even devils consorting.†   (source)
  • "Men are no common objects in these empty fields," returned the trapper, "and I humbly hope, though I have so long consorted with the beasts of the wilderness, that I have not yet lost the look of my kind."†   (source)
  • …with whom he plays at billiards or shares the joint, something about the genteel world of London, and how, as there are men (such as Rawdon Crawley, whose position we mentioned before) who cut a good figure to the eyes of the ignorant world and to the apprentices in the park, who behold them consorting with the most notorious dandies there, so there are ladies, who may be called men's women, being welcomed entirely by all the gentlemen and cut or slighted by all their wives.†   (source)
  • Hence the smugglers habitually consorted with the debtors (who received them with open arms), except at certain constitutional moments when somebody came from some Office, to go through some form of overlooking something which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about.†   (source)
  • But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes.†   (source)
  • …in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.†   (source)
  • He had been at a fast supper-party, given the night before by Captain the Honourable George Cinqbars, at his house in Brompton Square, to several young men of the regiment, and a number of ladies of the corps de ballet, and old Mac, who was at home with people of all ages and ranks, and consorted with generals, dog-fanciers, opera-dancers, bruisers, and every kind of person, in a word, was resting himself after the night's labours, and, not being on duty, was in bed.†   (source)
  • "I know it is nat'ral for like to seek like, and for them that have consorted much with officers' ladies to wish to be officers' ladies themselves.†   (source)
  • He has consorted latterly with his kinsman, there, in such a sort as to find great pleasure in his company, and I will acknowledge that it touches my feelings to part the pair so soon.†   (source)
  • Chingachgook is a Mohican by blood, consorting with the Delawares by usage, as is the case with most of his tribe, which has long been broken up by the increase of our color.†   (source)
  • Nor was their belief much shaken by repeated intelligence which came over in course of time, that an old man who wore the tie of his neckcloth under one ear, and who was very well known to be an Englishman, consorted with the Dutchmen on the quaint banks of the canals of the Hague and in the drinking-shops of Amsterdam, under the style and designation of Mynheer von Flyntevynge.†   (source)
  • Here have I journeyed and guided through the woods female after female, and consorted with them in the garrisons, and never have I even felt an inclination for any, until I saw Mabel Dunham.†   (source)
  • Captain Flinty-heart, I suppose this consorting with traitors is a part of a soldier's regular business; but, I tell you honestly, it is not to my liking, and I'd rather it should be you than I who had this affair on his conscience.†   (source)
  • I love no Mingo, as is just, seeing how much I have consorted with the Delawares, who are their mortal and natural enemies; but I never pull trigger on one of the miscreants unless it be plain that his death will lead to some good end.†   (source)
  • "I know it," returned the other proudly, "for I have consorted with him in sorrow and in joy: in one I have found him a man, however stricken; in the other, a chief who knows that the women of his tribe are the most seemly in light merriment.†   (source)
  • "Chingachgook and I have consorted together since we were boys, and have fi't in company on the Horican, the Mohawk, the Ontario, and all the other bloody passes between the country of the Frenchers and our own; and did the foolish knave believe that I would stand by and see my best friend cut off in an ambushment?"†   (source)
  • Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo,— Mercutio.   (source)
    consortest = keeps company
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou consortest" in older English, today we say "You consort."
  • And as thy consort queen she shares the throne?   (source)
    consort = royal spouse
  • Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels?   (source)
    consort = keep company with
  • Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence.   (source)
    consort = accompany
  • Who is it that consorts, so late, the dead?   (source)
    consorts = keeps company
  • I shall always be at your service and that of my lady the duchess, your worthy consort, worthy queen of beauty and paramount princess of courtesy.   (source)
    consort = royal spouse
  • Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,
    To be consorted with the humorous night:
    Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.   (source)
    consorted = spending time together
  • Zounds, consort!   (source)
    consort = spend time together
  • I had little doubt, however, that both Colum and the girl's father would consider this "consorting" highly improper.†   (source)
  • …round about who court her,
    nothing but our best.'
    So they'll scoff ….
    just think of the scandal that would face me then.
    I'd find fault with a girl who carried on that way,
    flouting her parents' wishes—father, mother, still alive—
    consorting with men before she'd tied the knot in public.
    No, stranger, listen closely to what I say, the sooner
    to win your swift voyage home at my father's hands.
    Now, you'll find a splendid grove along the road—
    poplars, sacred to Pallas—
    a…†   (source)
  • Your husband's away—
    by now he must be off in the wilds of Lemnos,
    consorting with his raucous Sintian friends."
    So he pressed

    and her heart raced with joy to sleep with War
    and off they went to bed and down they lay—
    and down around them came those cunning chains
    of the crafty god of fire, showering down now
    till the couple could not move a limb or lift a finger—
    then they knew at last: there was no way out, not now.
    But now the glorious crippled Smith was drawing near…†   (source)
  • He, with his consorted Eve, The story heard attentive, and was filled With admiration and deep muse, to hear Of things so high and strange; things, to their thought So unimaginable, as hate in Heaven, And war so near the peace of God in bliss, With such confusion: but the evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung; impossible to mix With blessedness.†   (source)
  • Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign Two mighty eagles fell; and there they perch'd, Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands; Who to Philippi here consorted us: This morning are they fled away and gone; And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us, As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem A canopy most fatal, under which Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.†   (source)
  • For this, consorted with the citizens, Your very worshipful and loving friends, And, by their vehement instigation, In this just cause come I to move your grace.†   (source)
  • 'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established proclaimed edict and continent canon, with—with,—O! with but with this I passion to say wherewith,'— COSTARD.†   (source)
  • Then be your eyes the witness of their evil: Look how I am bewitch'd; behold, mine arm Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up: And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch, Consorted with that harlot-strumpet Shore, That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.†   (source)
  • My dear child, it was not Mary Magdalene's royal blood that concerned the Church so much as it was her consorting with Christ, who also had royal blood.   (source)
    consorting = being a sexual partner
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  • As a king consort, his only constitutional duty was to help create an heir.
    consort = spouse of a reigning monarch
  • We caught a man with a knife climbing into the pen for mouse deer; he said he was going to punish evil Ravana (who in the Ramayana took the form of a deer when he kidnapped Sita, Rama's consort).   (source)
    consort = spouse
  • He would be a prince consort, as no one can hold a title higher than mine.   (source)
  • A queen must have a consort.   (source)
  • So the list of his consorts grows by the day.   (source)
    consorts = sexual partners
  • He took a cab to the embassy, and within twenty minutes witnessed two women licking a man's pierced nipples, bestride him like barbarian consorts.   (source)
  • It isn't easy for the Empress's consort to have friends.   (source)
    consort = a husband, wife, or companion -- especially of a reigning monarch
  • It has not been seen in our times that such fortresses have been of use to any prince, unless to the Countess of Forli, when the Count Girolamo, her consort, was killed; for by that means she was able to withstand the popular attack and wait for assistance from Milan, and thus recover her state;   (source)
    consort = royal spouse
  • She makes a point to keep Kenny O'Donnell aware of the precise time she plans to leave for and return from any trip outside the White House, just to make sure she doesn't stumble upon the president in flagrante delicto with a consort.   (source)
    consort = sexual partner
  • With Camille in line for her throne and Ahren as her prince consort, his primary duty is to France now.   (source)
    consort = spouse
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  • This one indicates that the president of the United States is having sex with a consort of Sam Giancana, not only one of the most notorious mobsters in the country, but also at the top of the list of Mafia kingpins whom Bobby Kennedy is trying to bring down.   (source)
    consort = sexual partner
  • Consort.   (source)
    consort = spouse
  • Elizabeth, Queen Consort to King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Good for thy consort and the royal house.   (source)
    consort = royal spouse
  • One day his imperial majesty, being informed of my way of living, desired "that himself and his royal consort, with the young princes of the blood of both sexes, might have the happiness," as he was pleased to call it, "of dining with me."   (source)
    consort = spouse
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  • Asherah was venerated as the consort of Yahweh.†   (source)
  • Or you, his useless, troublesome daughter, who wants to consort with guttersnipes?†   (source)
  • Even the Emperor's consort had produced only females.†   (source)
  • I mean, if my mother was Morzan's consort, then …."†   (source)
  • I thought you had better sense than to consort with the enemies of Rome!†   (source)
  • Our Goddess understands this, as does her consort, Erebus.†   (source)
  • EUGENIDES AND THE SKY GOD'S THUNDERBOLTS After her argument with her consort, the Sky, Earth gave Hephestia her power to shake the ground.†   (source)
  • Frog Lip was riding just in front of him, and he felt how nice it would be not to have to consort with such a man again.†   (source)
  • Your mother is a courtesan and a consort.†   (source)
  • The obvious consort walked back into the small house and slammed the door shut, removing the light.†   (source)
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  • "I want a consort with teeth," she had told him when she refused the last.†   (source)
  • Since that time her life and character has been that of a pure Christian ministering to the comfort of all, especially her beloved husband and consort, E. Rucker Blakeslee of this city, who now must walk alone.†   (source)
  • We are friends in the way people in an unprovisioned lifeboat are, chance consorts who are sure that they'll be picked up soon, any day now, but not exactly how or when.†   (source)
  • But he had seen a ship of war sail down the straits yesterday and seen it signalling, as he supposed, to its consorts.†   (source)
  • Center is a fun place and a Wisdom's consort has a cushy time.†   (source)
  • For this reason, Kali's consort must take his death of one who is nameless.†   (source)
  • I tried and tried, concentrating on the prayers that were being said and at last the images faded; I saw in their place the countenance of the God and his Consort, and it seemed to me that they looked on me benignly and I was at length able to pray.†   (source)
  • "She was the consort of El, who is also known as Yahweh," the Librarian says.†   (source)
  • What frenzied senses, desp'rate musk Are consort of rememb'ring.†   (source)
  • "I'd make an alliance with Pip and my friends, not consort with the enemy."†   (source)
  • It was when I visited Casterly Rock with my mother, her consort, and my sister Elia.†   (source)
  • A landed knight is no fit consort for a princess of royal blood.†   (source)
  • Wild dragons did not, as a rule, consort with those of us who were bonded with Riders.†   (source)
  • Go not to Pyke, to bow before the godless, nor to Harlaw, to consort with scheming women.†   (source)
  • My father was a Rider and my mother was Morzan's consort and Black Hand .†   (source)
  • And who would the gods of Ghis have me take as my king and consort?†   (source)
  • And those who consort with her cannot be trusted either.†   (source)
  • Once I am her consort, I shall deliver you the Vale of Arryn without a drop of blood being spilled.†   (source)
  • Even Nyx has a consort, the god Erebus, to whom she is devoted.†   (source)
  • "It's no more shameful than having a mother who's a paid consort."†   (source)
  • And because, as he told Eragon, they were brothers, both born of Morzan's favored consort, Selena.†   (source)
  • "Lady Margaery is my son's true and gentle wife, his helpmate and consort.†   (source)
  • "All I know for certain is that he is the queen's consort.†   (source)
  • Aye, and your mothers were poxy trollops and the consorts of Urgals!†   (source)
  • He was only a sellsword, no fit consort for a queen, and yet ….†   (source)
  • He is highborn enough to make a worthy consort, she thought.†   (source)
  • Why should they seek to harm my queen when she has taken me for her king and consort?†   (source)
  • To be my king and consort, you need only bring me peace.†   (source)
  • Hizdahr zo Loraq might be his queen's consort, but he would never be his king.†   (source)
  • Daenerys had taken another for her consort, but if Hizdahr died, she would be free to wed again.†   (source)
  • Hizdahr is my queen's consort, however little I may like it.†   (source)
  • This Ghiscari lordling is no fit consort for the queen of the.†   (source)
  • To be sure, propositions came my way at every social event; I was Her Wisdom's consort.†   (source)
  • Jessica imagined herself leaving the rigors of Arrakis for the life of power and security she could know as mother of a royal consort.†   (source)
  • The planetologist's odd question seemed to have gone unnoticed by the others, and now Kynes was bending over one of the consort women, listening to a low-voiced coquetry.†   (source)
  • Somehow she had gotten the notion that a dwarf lord-ling would be the perfect consort for her daughter Lollys, a large, soft, dim-witted girl who rumor said was still a maid at thirty-and-three.†   (source)
  • As most of you already know, our society today is still matriarchal, but we respect and appreciate the Sons of Night, and consider them our protectors and consorts.†   (source)
  • I had to be seen to try to find a consort for you once you'd reached a certain age, else it would have raised suspicions, but I dared not bring you any man you might accept.†   (source)
  • He kissed her hand and said, "Daenerys, my queen, I will gladly wash you from head to heel if that is what I must do to be your king and consort."†   (source)
  • If Daenerys accepts our princeling and takes him for her consort, the Seven Kingdoms will do the same.†   (source)
  • Her Grace gave her hand to Hizdahr zo Loraq, made him her king and consort, restored the mortal art as he beseeched her.†   (source)
  • But Daenerys Targaryen had never established a proper Queensguard even for herself nor issued any commands in respect to her consort.†   (source)
  • It does make for a splendid story, and the singers will make much of your escape once you take the Iron Throne …. assuming that our fair Daenerys takes you for her consort.†   (source)
  • "All kneel for His Magnificence Hizdahr zo Loraq, Fourteenth of That Ancient Name, King of Meereen, Scion of Ghis, Octarch of the Old Empire, Master of the Skahazadhan, Consort to Dragons and Blood of the Harpy," the herald shouted.†   (source)
  • All kneel for His Magnificence Hizdahr zo Loraq, Fourteenth of That Noble Name, King of Meereen, Scion of Ghis, Octarch of the Old Empire, Master of the Skahazadhan, Consort to Dragons and Blood of the Harpy," roared the herald.†   (source)
  • He is still her consort.†   (source)
  • I gave myself a soul-searching and admitted curiosity as morbid as that of any female who propositioned me simply because I was Star's consort.†   (source)
  • We often went to social events; we both enjoyed parties and, for Her Wisdom and Consort, there was endless choice.†   (source)
  • I had dough; all I could do was lose it—or, if I won, I would never know whether word had gone out (from any government anywhere): Don't buck the Empress's consort, we will make good your losses.†   (source)
  • There was a melodious consort on the recorders, but nothing moved.†   (source)
  • "Wait," I said, putting my arm in imagination (thus we consort with our friends) through her arm.†   (source)
  • Her former consort, I understand, was a seafaring man and, presumably, the less exacting, but how my son, at the ripe age of thirty-eight, with, unless things have changed very much, a very free choice among the women of England, can have settled on—I suppose I must call her so—Beryl….†   (source)
  • Conway, in whom a mystical strain ran in curious consort with skepticism, found himself not unhappily puzzled over the sensation.†   (source)
  • Brahma, Visnu, and Siva with Their Consorts (painted miniature, India, early nineteenth century A.D.).†   (source)
  • And when the adventurer, in this context, is not a youth but a maid, she is the one who, by her qualities, her beauty, or her yearning, is fit to become the consort of an immortal.†   (source)
  • I shall envy them their continuance down the safe traditional ways under the shade of old yew trees while I consort with cockneys and clerks, and tap the pavements of the city.†   (source)
  • Inside the castle, in the royal chamber of the Pele Tower, King Lot and his consort were laid in the double bed.†   (source)
  • His distinguishing endowment was his power to dream: in sleep he could visit the remotest regions and consort with immortals in the supernatural realm.†   (source)
  • Now you're a tower of strength: a consort battleship.†   (source)
  • Willam began to consort with the sons of the chemist, the schoolmaster, and the tradesmen.†   (source)
  • You'd think he was a whole Royal Family rolled into one—Prince Consort and all."†   (source)
  • And maybe, perhaps, you didn't know there was a consort coming either?†   (source)
  • Livesey," he said, "in how many weeks do you and squire expect the consort?"†   (source)
  • I have no affinity to a single consort, much less to duplicates and triplicates of the class!†   (source)
  • Still it is worse to consort with a Mingo than to consort with a Delaware.†   (source)
  • The father embraced the son, the brother the brother, the husband his consort.†   (source)
  • I could not go back and consort with those people now, whom I used to meet in my father's studio.†   (source)
  • I—I do not want to consort with them without a witness.'†   (source)
  • And so, gathering courage, he looked at the sideboard; the plate of bananas; the engraving of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort; at the mantelpiece, with the jar of roses.†   (source)
  • It's that renovated old part of Brooklyn where writers and economists and all those people, some of them almost as good as the very best, consort with people who are almost as smart as the very smartest.†   (source)
  • It seemed strange to Duane that an outlaw's wife—and a woman who fitted her consort and the wild nature of their surroundings—should have weakness enough to weep.†   (source)
  • Yet the next afternoon she was pouncing on Mrs. Lyman Cass, the hook-nosed consort of the owner of the flour-mill.†   (source)
  • The lady (whose consort was known as "Welly" Bry on the Stock Exchange and in sporting circles) had already sacrificed one husband, and sundry minor considerations, to her determination to get on; and, having obtained a hold on Carry Fisher, she was astute enough to perceive the wisdom of committing herself entirely to that lady's guidance.†   (source)
  • Mason's next tack was to hold Clyde up to shame for having been willing, in the face of all she had done for him, to register Roberta in three different hotel registers as the unhallowed consort of presumably three different men in three different days.†   (source)
  • With minds less stored than his and less earnest, some officers of his rank, with whom at times he would necessarily consort, found him lacking in the companionable quality, a dry and bookish gentleman, as they deemed.†   (source)
  • At times she seemed to feel that he regretted her presence, and always this fancy came to her with mocking or bantering suggestion that the costume and mask she wore made her a bandit's consort, and she could not escape the wildness of this gold-seeking life.†   (source)
  • By this time the schooner and her little consort were gliding pretty swiftly through the water; indeed, we had already fetched up level with the camp-fire.†   (source)
  • Well, to make a long story short, we got a few hands on board, made a good cruise home, and the HISPANIOLA reached Bristol just as Mr. Blandly was beginning to think of fitting out her consort.†   (source)
  • John Trelawney Postscript—I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing master—a stiff man, which I regret, but in all other respects a treasure.†   (source)
  • The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore-side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.†   (source)
  • Roman convicts cast down to consort with Goths and Longobardi, Jews, Ethiopians, and barbarians from the shores of Maeotis.†   (source)
  • The Ladies Lynn and Ingram continued to consort in solemn conferences, where they nodded their two turbans at each other, and held up their four hands in confronting gestures of surprise, or mystery, or horror, according to the theme on which their gossip ran, like a pair of magnified puppets.†   (source)
  • I have a fri'nd waiting for me, who will think it no disgrace to consort with a fellow-creatur' that has never yet slain his kind."†   (source)
  • 'Yet,' said Jenny, after a time, 'I do not think you should despair of his recovery, for animals in their native state seldom care to allow those that have been once domesticated to consort with them.†   (source)
  • …his friends, but most of the villagers also, who were not in debt to the powerful firm we have named, frequented the inn of Captain Hollister on all occasions where such a house was necessary On the present evening the limping veteran and his consort were hardly housed after their return from the academy, when the sounds of stamping feet at their threshold announced the approach of visitors, who were probably assembling with a view to compare opinions on the subject of the ceremonies…†   (source)
  • Mr. Brownlow merely nodded to Mr. Grimwig, who disappearing with great alacrity, shortly returned, pushing in Mrs. Bumble, and dragging her unwilling consort after him.†   (source)
  • She felt herself disjoined from every one she had ever known before—from her two sisters, who wrote to express a dutiful hope that she would be happy, and a surprise, somewhat more vague, at her not having chosen a consort who was the hero of a richer accumulation of anecdote; from Henrietta, who, she was sure, would come out, too late, on purpose to remonstrate; from Lord Warburton, who would certainly console himself, and from Caspar Goodwood, who perhaps would not; from her aunt,…†   (source)
  • …Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic stride; a tongue in which a husband is called a consort, and a woman a spouse; Paris, the centre of art and civilization; the king, the monarch; Monseigneur the Bishop, a sainted pontiff; the district-attorney, the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution; the arguments, the accents which we…†   (source)
  • "When a man consort much with a people," continued Hawkeye, "if they were honest and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them.†   (source)
  • 'A most invaluable woman, that, Nickleby,' said Squeers when his consort had hurried away, pushing the drudge before her.†   (source)
  • In these instances, the whale of course is shifted like a mug of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the other; though the first boat always hovers at hand to assist its consort.†   (source)
  • "What, 'Graceful Consort'?†   (source)
  • "Your Manitou and my God only know when and where we shall meet ag'in; I shall count it a great blessing, and a full reward for any little good I may have done on 'arth, if we shall be permitted to know each other, and to consort together, hereafter, as we have so long done in these pleasant woods afore us!"†   (source)
  • Squeers, meanwhile, opened the shutters and blew the candle out; when the voice of his amiable consort was heard in the passage, demanding admittance.†   (source)
  • But being made an honest woman of, so to speak, Becky would not consort any longer with these dubious ones, and cut Lady Crackenbury when the latter nodded to her from her opera-box, and gave Mrs. Washington White the go-by in the Ring.†   (source)
  • For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bumble turned, and encountered the face of his interesting consort, who, imperfectly comprehending the few words she had overheard of his complaint, had hazarded the foregoing remark at a venture.†   (source)
  • "The Sergeant was wrong—yes, he was wrong, and it's of no avail to attempt to make the dove consort with the wolf."†   (source)
  • He comes up with his men and he consorts with the lama, and then he calls me a fool, and is very rude—'†   (source)
  • Stephen rose from his seat, and sauntered to the piano, humming in falsetto, "Graceful Consort," as he turned over the volume of "The Creation," which stood open on the desk.†   (source)
  • Just after dark that day, when one watch had retired below, a clamor was heard in the forecastle; and the two trembling traitors running up, besieged the cabin door, saying they durst not consort with the crew.†   (source)
  • The difference between an officer's consort and a guide's woman is as vast as that between the antiquity of Scotland and the antiquity of America.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, 'graceful consort,' " said Stephen, buttoning his coat across when he had done singing, and smiling down from his tall height, with the air of rather a patronizing lover, at the little lady on the music-stool.†   (source)
  • Now I can consort with such a sailor as yourself, Eau-douce, and find nothing very contrary in our gifts, though yours belong to the lakes and mine to the woods.†   (source)
  • It's not the unreflecting that are the most prized by the thoughtful, and there is no surer sign that a man made a good husband to his first consort, let me tell you all, than to see him speedily looking round for a competent successor.†   (source)
  • It's true she's not a full-blooded Mingo, but she consorts with the vagabonds, and must have larned some of their tricks.†   (source)
  • I suppose worse guides might have been found than the Tuscarora; though he has too much Mingo blood for one who consorts altogether with the Delawares.†   (source)
  • You've a knavish Tuscarora in your company there, who has art and malice enough to spoil the character of any tribe with which he consorts, though he found the Mingos ready ruined to his hands, I fear.†   (source)
  • Hark'e, Jasper," leading the other a little aside, just as they heard the Indian's plunge into the water,—"hark'e, lad; Chingachgook is not a Christian white man, like ourselves, but a Mohican chief, who has his gifts and traditions to tell him what he ought to do; and he who consorts with them that are not strictly and altogether of his own kind had better leave natur' and use to govern his comrades.†   (source)
  • The man who wins shall win you as his consort.†   (source)
  • Let thundering Zeus, consort of Hera, witness I give my word.†   (source)
  • You'll find them rigorous, consort though you are.†   (source)
  • No, I can see them break before the spear, if it is sure I have the first of gods behind me, Hera's consort, lord of thunder!†   (source)
  • Hektor complied, held up his staff, and swore: "May Zeus in thunder, consort of Hera, witness this: no other Trojan rides that car behind that team.†   (source)
  • Then to Iris he said: "Away with you, light foot, take my message to Poseidon, all of it; do not misreport it; say he must give up his part in war and battle, consort with gods or else go back to sea.†   (source)
  • The time had come, and Prince Alexandras, consort of Helen, buckled on his armor: first the greaves, well molded to his shins, with silver ankle circlets; then around his chest the cuirass of his brother Lykaon, a good fit for him.†   (source)
  • The gods gave them to Peleus that day they put you in a mortal's bed— how I wish the immortals of the sea had been your only consorts!†   (source)
  • …there
    on the ground, spread over nine acres—two vultures
    hunched on either side of him, digging into his liver,
    beaking deep in the blood-sac, and he with his frantic hands
    could never beat them off, for he had once dragged off
    the famous consort of Zeus in all her glory,
    Leto, threading her way toward Pytho's ridge,
    over the lovely dancing-rings of Panopeus.
    And I saw Tantalus too, bearing endless torture.
    He stood erect in a pool as the water lapped his chin—
    parched, he…†   (source)
  • Consort not even a king.†   (source)
  • As they drove along Nassau street His Excellency drew the attention of his bowing consort to the programme of music which was being discoursed in College park.†   (source)
  • No, something top notch, an all star Irish caste, the Tweedy-Flower grand opera company with his own legal consort as leading lady as a sort of counterblast to the Elster Grimes and Moody-Manners, perfectly simple matter and he was quite sanguine of success, providing puffs in the local papers could be managed by some fellow with a bit of bounce who could pull the indispensable wires and thus combine business with pleasure.†   (source)
  • The lewd suggestions of some faded beauty may console him for a consort neglected and debauched but this new exponent of morals and healer of ills is at his best an exotic tree which, when rooted in its native orient, throve and flourished and was abundant in balm but, transplanted to a clime more temperate, its roots have lost their quondam vigour while the stuff that comes away from it is stagnant, acid and inoperative.†   (source)
  • On Northumberland and Lansdowne roads His Excellency acknowledged punctually salutes from rare male walkers, the salute of two small schoolboys at the garden gate of the house said to have been admired by the late queen when visiting the Irish capital with her husband, the prince consort, in 1849 and the salute of Almidano Artifoni's sturdy trousers swallowed by a closing door.†   (source)
  • Then falter not O book, fulfil your destiny, You not a reminiscence of the land alone, You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith, Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!†   (source)
  • Native Moments Native moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now, Give me now libidinous joys only, Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank, To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too, I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers, The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend, He shall be lawless, rude,…†   (source)
  • Sweet health and fair desires consort your Grace!†   (source)
  • 1) Lady, lead indoors thy consort; wherefore longer here delay?†   (source)
  • My hand shall lead our little son; and you, My faithful consort, shall our steps pursue.†   (source)
  • Let's not consort with them: To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.†   (source)
  • Go, consort With friends who like a madman for their mate.†   (source)
  • HERDSMAN Know then the child was by repute his own, But she within, thy consort best could tell.†   (source)
  • Yes, madam, he was of that consort.†   (source)
  • The schoolmaster and his consort passed their time unpleasantly enough that evening, but something or other happened before the next morning, which a little abated the fury of Mrs Partridge; and she at length admitted her husband to make his excuses: to which she gave the readier belief, as he had, instead of desiring her to recall Jenny, professed a satisfaction in her being dismissed, saying, she was grown of little use as a servant, spending all her time in reading, and was become,…†   (source)
  • None are suffered to put away their wives against their wills, from any great calamity that may have fallen on their persons, for they look on it as the height of cruelty and treachery to abandon either of the married persons when they need most the tender care of their consort, and that chiefly in the case of old age, which, as it carries many diseases along with it, so it is a disease of itself.†   (source)
  • Soon, at five o'clock, Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart, And afterward consort you till bed-time: My present business calls me from you now.†   (source)
  • See, then, Anselmo, the peril thou art encountering in seeking to disturb the peace of thy virtuous consort; see for what an empty and ill-advised curiosity thou wouldst rouse up passions that now repose in quiet in the breast of thy chaste wife; reflect that what thou art staking all to win is little, and what thou wilt lose so much that I leave it undescribed, not having the words to express it.†   (source)
  • * *mate, consort Me list not of the chaff nor of the stre* *straw Make so long a tale, as of the corn.†   (source)
  • Wilt thou be of our consort?†   (source)
  • Strength is chiefly valued in the male, and comeliness in the female; not upon the account of love, but to preserve the race from degenerating; for where a female happens to excel in strength, a consort is chosen, with regard to comeliness.†   (source)
  • For we to him indeed all praises owe, And daily thanks; I chiefly, who enjoy So far the happier lot, enjoying thee Pre-eminent by so much odds, while thou Like consort to thyself canst no where find.†   (source)
  • "Who is he, Master, that writhes, quivering more than the others his consorts," said I, "and whom a ruddier flame is sucking?"†   (source)
  • …palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwithstanding, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc.…†   (source)
  • After your dire-lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber-window With some sweet consort: to their instruments Tune a deploring dump; the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.†   (source)
  • But I, the consort of the Thunderer, Have wag'd a long and unsuccessful war, With various arts and arms in vain have toil'd, And by a mortal man at length am foil'd.†   (source)
  • With him enthroned Sat sable-vested Night, eldest of things, The consort of his reign; and by them stood Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon; Rumour next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled, And Discord with a thousand various mouths.†   (source)
  • …takes place, that the husband of the adulterous woman, though he may not be aware of or have given any cause for his wife's failure in her duty, or (being careless or negligent) have had it in his power to prevent his dishonour, nevertheless is stigmatised by a vile and reproachful name, and in a manner regarded with eyes of contempt instead of pity by all who know of his wife's guilt, though they see that he is unfortunate not by his own fault, but by the lust of a vicious consort.†   (source)
  • For as her consort still, enthroned with Justice above, Thou bendest man to thy will, O all invincible Love.†   (source)
  • When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant.†   (source)
  • "If perchance thou art left a widower—a thing which may happen—and in virtue of thy office seekest a consort of higher degree, choose not one to serve thee for a hook, or for a fishing-rod, or for the hood of thy 'won't have it;' for verily, I tell thee, for all the judge's wife receives, the husband will be held accountable at the general calling to account; where he will have repay in death fourfold, items that in life he regarded as naught.†   (source)
  • Male he created thee; but thy consort Female, for race; then blessed mankind, and said, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Earth; Subdue it, and throughout dominion hold Over fish of the sea, and fowl of the air, And every living thing that moves on the Earth.†   (source)
  • Thus pondering one clue of hope I caught, And tracked it up; I have sent Menoeceus' son, Creon, my consort's brother, to inquire Of Pythian Phoebus at his Delphic shrine, How I might save the State by act or word.†   (source)
  • Fair Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines Our eye-lids: Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest; Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways; While other animals unactive range, And…†   (source)
  • However I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom: If death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of Nature draw me to my own; My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed; we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.†   (source)
  • What will they then But force the Spirit of Grace itself, and bind His consort Liberty? what, but unbuild His living temples, built by faith to stand, Their own faith, not another's? for, on earth, Who against faith and conscience can be heard Infallible? yet many will presume: Whence heavy persecution shall arise On all, who in the worship persevere Of spirit and truth; the rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied; Truth shall retire…†   (source)
  • …received; but, in disparity The one intense, the other still remiss, Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove Tedious alike: Of fellowship I speak Such as I seek, fit to participate All rational delight: wherein the brute Cannot be human consort: They rejoice Each with their kind, lion with lioness; So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined: Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl So well converse, nor with the ox the ape; Worse then can man with beast, and least of all.†   (source)
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  • Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each.   (source)
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