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paramour
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  • But when I pointed out the inconsistency to Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa-Fischer's twenty-three-year-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)
  • Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour.†  (source)
  • I mistrust that you come from her paramour.†  (source)
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  • Because the sergeant and his paramour are beyond our reach.†  (source)
  • Yes, they were admirers, paramours, sweethearts.†  (source)
  • I have forgotten the exact fantasies I entertained about my first paramour.†  (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)
  • After you're wed you can take one of them for a paramour.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • And so who that useth paramours shall be unhappy, and all thing is unhappy that is about them.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Fair damosel, said Sir Launcelot, 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 they shall by unhap and their cursedness slay better men than they be themselves.†  (source)
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