amatory

• “Her subject was usually 'amatory' fiction, narratives of desire focussing on highly charged sexual episodes, concerned with love and seduction in all their guises.”

  Eliza Haywood (c.1693-1756)

• “He is much more in his element when he proves that a lover is to his mistress, when she is about to go to a ball, only a "decimal of a lover," a kind of amatory tailor or ninth part of man; or when, in the”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800

• “Google Translate comes up with this version of a Spanish-language article in Petroleum World: “After his second divorce, amatory life of Hugo Chávez has shielded beneath the mysterious mantle of power.””

  VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Love Life Of Hugo Chavez

• “How amatory God contingency be to have bestowed this ray of light in to his miserable life.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “Almonds in particular have been touted for their amatory properties, being, as they are, fragrant and shaped like a woman's hips.”

  The Huffington Post: Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Carrots And Sex

• “One might see this as someprofound metaphor for the human condition, or at least its amatory component.”

  The Guardian: Tête à Tête festival

• “           Fifi returns with Fritz's snack, allowing him to camouflage his excitement as amatory.”

  Fictionaut: The World Series of Canine Poker

• “But my lack of post-adolescent amatory success has never stood in the way of my fantasy life, so I picked a table halfway across the room with an unobstructed view of the woman, took my seat, and unwrapped my sandwich, looking forward to a little mentalliaison, when from the other direction came — four female security guards.”

  Fictionaut: Fear of Female Security Guards

• “As a recent graduate of the Richard M. Nixon School of Charm I was confident of abilities to do so, yet sadly, both amatory and monetary ambitions went unrealized.”

  Daniel Krotz: The Uses of Poetry

• “Brown is usually seen as a rather one-dimensional "friend of Keats," robust and masculine, practical and business-like, with a proclivity for "good living and amatory indiscretion.”

  New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn

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