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They had broad powerful noses, with fleshy deeply scalloped wings, sensual mouths, extraordinarily mixed of delicacy and coarseness, which in the process of thinking they convolved with astonishing flexibility, broad intelligent foreheads, and deep flat cheeks, a trifle hollowed.†
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sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
Steve hummed a monotonous, suggestive tune, and writhed sensually.†
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the rich vision of laden ships, masted above the sea-walls, the worldnostalgic ships, bearing about them the filtered and concentrated odors of the earth, sensual negroid rum and molasses, tar, ripening guavas, bananas, tangerines, pineapples in the warm holds of tropical boats, as cheap, as profuse, as abundant as the lazy equatorial earth and all its women;†
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sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
Eugene brought her some cigarettes once: she stood before the window in a thin petticoat, her feet wide apart, her long sensual legs outlined against the light.†
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She moved leisurely with a luxurious sensual swing of the body: her smile was tender and full of vague allurement, her voice gentle, her sudden laughter, bubbling out of midnight secrecy, rich and full.†
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And, at night, as Eugene listened to the low sweet voice of the woman, heard the rich sensual burst of her laughter, as she sat in the dark porch with a commercial traveller or some merchant in the town, his blood grew bitter with the morality of jealousy: he withered with his hurt, thought of her little sleeping children, and, with a passionate sense of fraternity, of her gulled husband.†
Chpt 1
In the morning, he breathed the seminal odor of her fresh bathed body as she passed him, gazed desperately into the tender sensuality of her face and, with a sense of unreality, wondered what change darkness wrought in this untelling face.†
Chpt 1
or traversed the spacious palmcool walks that cut the peninsula, to see, sprawled in the sensual loose sand the ladies' silken legs, the brown lean bodies of the men, the long seaplunges in the unending scroll-work of the emerald and infinite sea, which had beat in his brain from his father's shells, which had played at his mountain heart, but which never, until now, had he seen.†
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sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
His face, whisky-red, was highboned and handsome; his mouth was straightlipped, cruel, and sensual.†
Chpt 2
Then, he stretched his thin arms out, extending his body sensually upward, and forcing out in a wide yawn the night-time accumulation of weariness, boredom, and disgust.†
Chpt 2
The fast cackle-cluck of sensual hens.†
Chpt 2

sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
The black glasses gave the suggestion that he was half-masked; they added a touch of unsearchable mystery to the subtle, sensual and disquieting intelligence of his face.†
Chpt 2
She muttered as if drugged as he touched her, turned toward him, and sleepily awakened, drew him down to her with heavied and sensual caress, yoked under her big coppery arms.†
Chpt 2
The mouth was full, sensual, extraordinarily mobile, the lower lip deeply scooped and pouting.†
Chpt 2
Occasionally, Pearl's happy and vital sensuality, the innocent gusto with which she implored "Some sweet old daddy Come make a fuss over me.†
Chpt 2
She dressed well: she was well fleshed, but not sensual-looking.†
Chpt 2

sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
She began to moan softly, while an undulant tremor flowed through her great yellow body; her hips and her round heavy breasts writhed slowly in a sensual rhythm.†
Chpt 2
Stuck like a jigging doll upon the horse, whom he feared, he rode, staring into heaven, sometimes almost unconscious of the great engine expanding and contracting below him with a brown sensual rhythm.†
Chpt 3
Their lust, their weakness, their sensuality, their fanaticism, their strength, their rich taint, were rooted in the marrow of his bones.†
Chpt 3
Then, with brooding satisfaction, he studied his sensual deeply scalloped mouth with the pouting underlip, noting that even when he smiled he barely revealed his teeth.†
Chpt 3

sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
In the pages of a thousand books he saw their portraits: Coleridge at twenty-five, with the loose sensual mouth, gaping idiotically, the vast staring eyes, holding in their opium depths the vision of seas haunted by the albatross, the great white forehead—head mixed of Zeus and the village degenerate; the lean worn head of Caesar, a little thirsty in the flanks; and the dreaming mummy face of Kublai Khan, lit with eyes that flickered with green fires.†
Chpt 3
The air was charged with the fresh sensual heat, the deep green shimmer of heavy leafage, a thousand spermy earth and flower-scents.†
Chpt 3

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(1) (sensual)
relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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