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relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) — especially of sexual sensation
- This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was not disfigured by the approach of death.Book One — 1805 (74% in)
- Though all Ramballe's love stories had the sensual character which Frenchmen regard as the special charm and poetry of love, yet he told his story with such sincere conviction that he alone had experienced and known all the charm of love and he described women so alluringly that Pierre listened to him with curiosity.Book Eleven — 1812 (81% in)
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