amorous

• “I saw upon this superb and triumphal vehicle a white swan in amorous embrace with Theseus's daughter, an illustrious nymph of unbelievable beauty.”

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• “We'll be going down so deep the river's going to weep, and the mountain's going to shout Amen! It's coming like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway, imperial, mysterious, in amorous array:”

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• “Now, the idea of a divorce so easy and wilful as Mr. Shaw proposes arises naturally out of an exclusive consideration of what I may call the amorous sentimentalities of marriage.”

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• “[FN#374] Although the Arab's ideal-of beauty, as has been seen and said, corresponds with ours the Egyptians (Modern) the Maroccans and other negrofied races like "walking tun-butts" as Clapperton called his amorous widow.”

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• “The vengeful parent is consumed by a kind of amorous hatred of both the former spouse and the once shared, now torn, child.”

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• “Little Ed - though sadly, I believe was just a little too happy, and it translated into being "amorous" with the young beauties he spotted.”

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• “Sex Negatives," as they are called, become violently ill if they attempt any kind of amorous contact.”

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• “Mr. Bumble, slowly flourishing the teaspoon with a kind of amorous dignity which made him doubly impressive; ‘I would drown it myself, with pleasure.’”

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• “It used to be that I didn't think I could go to sleep if I wasn't involved in some kind of amorous contact or another.”

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• “Meanwhile, amidst the constant murmurs of the trees, the nephew of Aragon was heard drawing the notes of some kind of amorous despair from the hollow of his melodious calabash.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

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