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She doesn't believe in divorce, but she does believe in paramours.

It just so happened, however, that a cursory examination of this Former Person's recent associates led to a certain willowy actress—who for years had been the reputed paramour of a round-faced Commisar recently appointed to the Politburo.† (source)

Yes, they were admirers, paramours, sweethearts.† (source)

But when I pointed out the inconsistency to Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa-Fischer's twenty-threeyear-old climbing sirdar-he insisted that the real problem was not that one of Fischer's climbers had been "sauce-making" at Base Camp but rather that she continued to sleep with her paramour high on the mountain.† (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

No he must die, for you have sworn You'd be my paramour.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

"Pippa's paramour," Felicity says, drawing out the word.† (source)

But now Claudia has released you, yet still yon stay with her, and stay bound to her as your paramour,' he said.† (source)

Because the sergeant and his paramour are beyond our reach.† (source)

Though I might be persuaded to keep you for my paramour.† (source)

I have forgotten the exact fantasies I entertained about my first paramour.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

But they called James McDermott my paramour.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

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And this is Ellaria Sand, mine own paramour.† (source)

Did you tire of your paramour on the road?† (source)

"Daenerys has a paramour," he said defensively.† (source)

'No, she's no paramour of mine; you don't understand,' I said.† (source)

"After you're wed you can take one of them for a paramour.† (source)

Even Prince Oberyn's paramour paled at the sight of him.† (source)

No: was I really a paramour, is their chief concern, and they don't even know themselves whether they want the answer to be no or yes.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

And it was at this time that they called me McDermott's paramour, and also his accomplice; and they wrote also that I must have helped to strangle Nancy, as it would take two to do the job.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

But they say she was his paramour.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

If I was his paramour!† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

Bowing, he took the chest from the hands of the white knight and carried it to the dais, where Doran Martell sat in his rolling chair between his daughter Arianne and his dead brother's beloved paramour, Ellaria.† (source)

A great knight with a paramour.† (source)

He is not my paramour!† (source)

And Claudia, the crowning jewel, a fairy queen with bare white shoulders wandering with her sleek tresses among the rich items of her tiny world while I watched from the doorway, spellbound, ungainly, stretched out on the carpet so I could lean my head on my elbow and gaze up into my paramour's eyes, seeing them mysteriously softened for the time being by the perfection of this sanctuary.† (source)

The Red Viper had been fostered at Sandstone, and Prince Oberyn's paramour Ellaria Sand was Lord Uller's natural daughter; four of the Sand Snakes were his granddaughters.† (source)

As they were crossing the yard, Prince Oberyn of Dome fell in beside them, his black-haired paramour on his arm.† (source)

"…. paramour," Ser Barristan finished, before the Dornish knight could say anything that might besmirch the queen's honor.† (source)

If he did, though, he would need to hide her somehow; the Citadel did not permit its novices to keep wives or paramours, at least not openly.† (source)

When he was no more than sixteen, Prince Oberyn had been found abed with the paramour of old Lord Yronwood, a huge man of fierce repute and short temper.† (source)

I have no wish to salt your wounds, but Her Grace has a new husband and an old paramour, and seems to prefer the both of them to you.† (source)

I know he kept a paramour.† (source)

So did the Princess Arianne, Lady Jordayne, the Lord of Godsgrace, the Knight of Lemonwood, the Lady of Ghost Hill …. even Ellaria Sand, Prince Oberyn's beloved paramour, who had been with him in King's Landing when he . died.† (source)

People write tragedies in which fatal blondes betray their paramours to ruin, in which Cressidas, Cleopatras, Delilahs, and sometimes even naughty daughters like Jessica bring their lovers or their parents to distress: but these are not the heart of tragedy.† (source)

Byron says that he is all right--Byron Bunch has helped the woman's paramour sell his friend for a thousand dollars, and Byron says that it is all right.† (source) William Faulkner, Light in August, 1932

Has kept the woman hidden from the father of her child, while that--Shall I say, other paramour, Byron?† (source) William Faulkner, Light in August, 1932

I mistrust that you come from her paramour.† (source)

Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour.† (source)

Your new paramour came to me, and offered to buy you; but you may be assured you will not succeed.† (source)

But its struggles are too far off, too much confused; scarcely can I perceive the colourless reflection in which are blended the uncapturable whirling medley of radiant hues, and I cannot distinguish its form, cannot invite it, as the one possible interpreter, to translate to me the evidence of its contemporary, its inseparable paramour, the taste of cake soaked in tea; cannot ask it to inform me what special circumstance is in question, of what period in my past life.† (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

His anger against her found vent in coarse railing at her paramour, whose name and voice and features offended his baffled pride: a priested peasant, with a brother a policeman in Dublin and a brother a potboy in Moycullen.† (source)

For he had just come from the courtyard with him where they had walked and talked of another man who had just been brought in—a Hungarian of Utica who was convicted of burning his paramour—in a furnace—then confessing it—a huge, rough, dark, ignorant man with a face like a gargoyle.† (source)

For had I but dreamed of the daughter of Torquil living in foul communion with the murderer of her father, the sword of a true Saxon had found thee out even in the arms of thy paramour!† (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

Her paramour should be an ugly gnome, Where four roads cross, in wanton play to meet her: An old he-goat, from Blocksberg coming home, Should his good-night in lustful gallop bleat her!† (source)

How comes it, then, I demand of thee once more, that thou hast suffered a brother to bring a paramour, and that paramour a Jewish sorceress, into this holy place, to the stain and pollution thereof?† (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

When one of us at spinning sat, And mother, nights, ne'er let us out the door She sported with her paramour.† (source)

—Yes, in these halls, stained with the noble and pure blood of my father and my brethren—in these very halls, to have lived the paramour of their murderer, the slave at once and the partaker of his pleasures, was to render every breath which I drew of vital air, a crime and a curse.† (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

But these favourable sentiments on the part of the Grand Master were greatly shaken by the intelligence that Albert had received within a house of religion the Jewish captive, and, as was to be feared, the paramour of a brother of the Order; and when Albert appeared before him, he was regarded with unwonted sternness.† (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

And so who that useth paramours shall be unhappy, and all thing is unhappy that is about them.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

So then he rode after the knight that had his paramour, and bade him turn and joust.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Then, fair knight, said she, will ye be my paramour?† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

How Sir Tristram took with him the shield, and also how he slew the paramour of Morgan le Fay.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

And ever the queen would set Sir Tristram on her own side, and her paramour on the other side.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

How Morgan le Fay buried her paramour, and how Sir Tristram praised Sir Launcelot and his kin.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Ah, madam, said Sir Percivale, what use and custom is that in a lady to destroy good knights but if they will be your paramour?† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

NOW leave we off this tale, and speak we of sir Dinas that had within the castle a paramour, and she loved another knight better than him.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

And there the king asked his nephew, Sir Gareth, whether he would have that lady as paramour, or to have her to his wife.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

And when sir Dinas came home and missed his paramour and his brachets, then was he the more wrother for his brachets than for the lady.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

And then his lady and paramour cried sir Dinas mercy, and said she would love him better than ever she did.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Then they went to supper, and the damosel loved Palomides as paramour, but the book saith she was of his kin.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

And then they were ware of Sir Breuse Saunce Pite chasing a lady for to have slain her, for he had slain her paramour afore.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Of all this, said the maiden, I will none, for but if ye will wed me, or else be my paramour at the least, wit you well, Sir Launcelot, my good days are done.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

This is an hard case, said Sir Launcelot, that either I must die or else choose one of you, yet had I liefer to die in this prison with worship, than to have one of you to my paramour maugre my head.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

THEN Sir Andred, that was cousin unto Sir Tristram, made a lady that was his paramour to say and to noise it that she was with Sir Tristram or ever he died.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

I am the Queen Morgan le Fay, queen of the land of Gore, and here is the queen of Northgalis, and the queen of Eastland, and the queen of the Out Isles; now choose one of us which thou wilt have to thy paramour, for thou mayest not choose or else in this prison to die.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

How here lieth Lanceor the king's son of Ireland, that at his own request was slain by the hands of Balin; and how his lady, Colombe, and paramour, slew herself with her love's sword for dole and sorrow.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

And because she deemed that Sir Launcelot loved Queen Guenever paramour, and she him again, therefore Queen Morgan le Fay ordained that shield to put Sir Launcelot to a rebuke, to that intent that King Arthur might understand the love between them.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Well, said his host, I shall tell you, King Pellam of Listeneise hath made do cry in all this country a great feast that shall be within these twenty days, and no knight may come there but if he bring his wife with him, or his paramour; and that knight, your enemy and mine, ye shall see that day.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

She hath a brother, a passing good knight of prowess and a full true man; and this damosel loved another knight that held her to paramour, and this good knight her brother met with the knight that held her to paramour, and slew him by force of his hands.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

So as they came either by other the king looked upon Sir Dinadan, that at that time he had Sir Tristram's helm upon his shoulder, the which helm the king had seen to-fore with the Queen of Northgalis, and that queen the king loved as paramour; and that helm the Queen of Northgalis had given to La Beale Isoud, and the queen La Beale Isoud gave it to Sir Tristram.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Sir, I shall tell you, said that knight: I am a knight of the Table Round, and my name is Sir Persides; and thus by adventure I came this way, and here I lodged in this castle at the bridge foot, and therein dwelleth an uncourteous lady; and because she proffered me to be her paramour, and I refused her, she set her men upon me suddenly or ever I might come to my weapon; and thus they bound me, and here I wot well I shall die but if some man of worship break my bands.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

We shall not strive, said Morgan le Fay, that was King Arthur's sister, I shall put an enchantment upon him that he shall not awake in six hours, and then I will lead him away unto my castle, and when he is surely within my hold, I shall take the enchantment from him, and then let him choose which of us he will have unto paramour.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Madam, said Sir Launcelot, she would none other ways be answered but that she would be my wife, outher else my paramour; and of these two I would not grant her, but I proffered her, for her good love that she shewed me, a thousand pound yearly to her, and to her heirs, and to wed any manner knight that she could find best to love in her heart.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

For ye shall understand King Arthur is the man in the world that she most hateth, because he is most of worship and of prowess of any of her blood; also she loveth me out of measure as paramour, and I her again; and if she might bring about to slay Arthur by her crafts, she would slay her husband King Uriens lightly, and then had she me devised to be king in this land, and so to reign, and she to be my queen; but that is now done, said Accolon, for I am sure of my death.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

The white fowl betokeneth a gentlewoman, fair and rich, which loved thee paramours, and hath loved thee long; and if thou warn her love she shall go die anon, if thou have no pity on her.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

And as for to say that I love La Beale Isoud paramours, I dare make good that I do, and that she hath my service above all other ladies, and shall have the term of my life.† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

…I may not warn people to speak of me what it pleaseth them; but for to be a wedded man, I think it not; for then I must couch with her, and leave arms and tournaments, battles, and adventures; and as for to say for to take my pleasaunce with paramours, that will I refuse in principal for dread of God; for knights that be adventurous or lecherous shall not be happy nor fortunate unto the wars, for other they shall be overcome with a simpler knight than they be themselves, other else…† (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous;
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?† (source)

The adulteress and her paramour brought the Saxon robbers here.† (source) James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

She is Thais the prostitute, who answered her paramour when he said, 'Have I great thanks from thee?† (source)

QUINCE Yea, and the best person too: and he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.† (source)

Then, fair knight, said she, will ye be my paramour?† (source)

How Morgan le Fay buried her paramour, and how Sir Tristram praised Sir Launcelot and his kin.† (source)

FLUTE You must say paragon: a paramour is, God bless us, a thing of naught.† (source)

So then he rode after the knight that had his paramour, and bade him turn and joust.† (source)

And ever the queen would set Sir Tristram on her own side, and her paramour on the other side.† (source)

How Sir Tristram took with him the shield, and also how he slew the paramour of Morgan le Fay.† (source)

And so who that useth paramours shall be unhappy, and all thing is unhappy that is about them.† (source)

A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven: one that slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it: wine loved I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman out-paramour'd the Turk; false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.† (source) William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1606

I was now reduced to a much higher degree of distress than before: the necessaries of life began to be numbered among my wants; and what made my case still the more grievous was, that my paramour, of whom I was now grown immoderately fond, shared the same distresses with myself.† (source) Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749

He was as full of love and paramour, As is the honeycomb of honey sweet; Well was the wenche that with him might meet.† (source)

But, as I said, my honour'd sires, his father Having this settled purpose, by what means To him betray'd, we know not, and this day Appointed for the deed; that parricide, I cannot style him better, by confederacy Preparing this his paramour to be there, Enter'd Volpone's house, (who was the man, Your fatherhoods must understand, design'd For the inheritance,) there sought his father:— But with what purpose sought he him, my lords?† (source) Ben Jonson, Volpone, 1605

How here lieth Lanceor the king's son of Ireland, that at his own request was slain by the hands of Balin; and how his lady, Colombe, and paramour, slew herself with her love's sword for dole and sorrow.† (source)

Then they went to supper, and the damosel loved Palomides as paramour, but the book saith she was of his kin.† (source)

For, soothely, a prentice revellour, That haunteth dice, riot, and paramour, His master shall it in his shop abie*, *suffer for All* have he no part of the minstrelsy.† (source)

My fourthe husband was a revellour; This is to say, he had a paramour, And I was young and full of ragerie,* *wantonness Stubborn and strong, and jolly as a pie.† (source)

Ah, madam, said Sir Percivale, what use and custom is that in a lady to destroy good knights but if they will be your paramour?† (source)

Of all this, said the maiden, I will none, for but if ye will wed me, or else be my paramour at the least, wit you well, Sir Launcelot, my good days are done.† (source)

His merry men commanded he To make him both game and glee; For needes must he fight With a giant with heades three, For paramour and jollity Of one that shone full bright.† (source)

Madam, said Sir Launcelot, she would none other ways be answered but that she would be my wife, outher else my paramour; and of these two I would not grant her, but I proffered her, for her good love that she shewed me, a thousand pound yearly to her, and to her heirs, and to wed any manner knight that she could find best to love in her heart.† (source)

If he ne may not live chaste his life, Take him a wife with great devotion, Because of lawful procreation Of children, to th' honour of God above, And not only for paramour or love; And for they shoulde lechery eschew, And yield their debte when that it is due: Or for that each of them should help the other In mischief,* as a sister shall the brother, *trouble And live in chastity full holily.† (source)

Certain he knew of bribers many mo' Than possible is to tell in yeare's two: For in this world is no dog for the bow,<3> That can a hurt deer from a whole know, Bet* than this Sompnour knew a sly lechour, *better Or an adult'rer, or a paramour: And, for that was the fruit of all his rent, Therefore on it he set all his intent.† (source)

So as they came either by other the king looked upon Sir Dinadan, that at that time he had Sir Tristram's helm upon his shoulder, the which helm the king had seen to-fore with the Queen of Northgalis, and that queen the king loved as paramour; and that helm the Queen of Northgalis had given to La Beale Isoud, and the queen La Beale Isoud gave it to Sir Tristram.† (source)

Sir, I shall tell you, said that knight: I am a knight of the Table Round, and my name is Sir Persides; and thus by adventure I came this way, and here I lodged in this castle at the bridge foot, and therein dwelleth an uncourteous lady; and because she proffered me to be her paramour, and I refused her, she set her men upon me suddenly or ever I might come to my weapon; and thus they bound me, and here I wot well I shall die but if some man of worship break my bands.† (source)

* *quenched For from that time that he had kiss'd her erse, Of paramours he *sette not a kers,* *cared not a rush* For he was healed of his malady; Full often paramours he gan defy, And weep as doth a child that hath been beat.† (source)

NOW leave we off this tale, and speak we of sir Dinas that had within the castle a paramour, and she loved another knight better than him.† (source)

And when sir Dinas came home and missed his paramour and his brachets, then was he the more wrother for his brachets than for the lady.† (source)

And as for to say that I love La Beale Isoud paramours, I dare make good that I do, and that she hath my service above all other ladies, and shall have the term of my life.† (source)

And then they were ware of Sir Breuse Saunce Pite chasing a lady for to have slain her, for he had slain her paramour afore.† (source)

The white fowl betokeneth a gentlewoman, fair and rich, which loved thee paramours, and hath loved thee long; and if thou warn her love she shall go die anon, if thou have no pity on her.† (source)

And then his lady and paramour cried sir Dinas mercy, and said she would love him better than ever she did.† (source)

And there the king asked his nephew, Sir Gareth, whether he would have that lady as paramour, or to have her to his wife.† (source)

THEN Sir Andred, that was cousin unto Sir Tristram, made a lady that was his paramour to say and to noise it that she was with Sir Tristram or ever he died.† (source)

This is an hard case, said Sir Launcelot, that either I must die or else choose one of you, yet had I liefer to die in this prison with worship, than to have one of you to my paramour maugre my head.† (source)

She hath a brother, a passing good knight of prowess and a full true man; and this damosel loved another knight that held her to paramour, and this good knight her brother met with the knight that held her to paramour, and slew him by force of his hands.† (source)

I am the Queen Morgan le Fay, queen of the land of Gore, and here is the queen of Northgalis, and the queen of Eastland, and the queen of the Out Isles; now choose one of us which thou wilt have to thy paramour, for thou mayest not choose or else in this prison to die.† (source)

And because she deemed that Sir Launcelot loved Queen Guenever paramour, and she him again, therefore Queen Morgan le Fay ordained that shield to put Sir Launcelot to a rebuke, to that intent that King Arthur might understand the love between them.† (source)

Well, said his host, I shall tell you, King Pellam of Listeneise hath made do cry in all this country a great feast that shall be within these twenty days, and no knight may come there but if he bring his wife with him, or his paramour; and that knight, your enemy and mine, ye shall see that day.† (source)

For ye shall understand King Arthur is the man in the world that she most hateth, because he is most of worship and of prowess of any of her blood; also she loveth me out of measure as paramour, and I her again; and if she might bring about to slay Arthur by her crafts, she would slay her husband King Uriens lightly, and then had she me devised to be king in this land, and so to reign, and she to be my queen; but that is now done, said Accolon, for I am sure of my death.† (source)

We shall not strive, said Morgan le Fay, that was King Arthur's sister, I shall put an enchantment upon him that he shall not awake in six hours, and then I will lead him away unto my castle, and when he is surely within my hold, I shall take the enchantment from him, and then let him choose which of us he will have unto paramour.† (source)

…I may not warn people to speak of me what it pleaseth them; but for to be a wedded man, I think it not; for then I must couch with her, and leave arms and tournaments, battles, and adventures; and as for to say for to take my pleasaunce with paramours, that will I refuse in principal for dread of God; for knights that be adventurous or lecherous shall not be happy nor fortunate unto the wars, for other they shall be overcome with a simpler knight than they be themselves, other else…† (source)

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