love-making

• “How much of our love-making last night was dreamed and how much actually happened?”

  Simon & Schuster: Olivia

• “Gina is holding a glass water-pitcher as she suddenly remembers details of their love-making in Switzerland, and she allows the jug to slip from her hands and shatter on the limestone floor of her sister's fancy, open-plan kitchen.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Ways and Woes of Illicit Love

• “For that matter, three times the gendarmes arrested him for riotous behaviour, and three times his manager ceased from love-making long enough to pay the fines imposed by a needy colonial administration.”

  THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN

• “And as you spoke, I wondered about the woman Hester and the form of love-making which existed between you, and whether she was simple and without any charm despite her culture and her gift of song.”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “No kanakas lay asleep in the sand, nor stole home from their love-making; and no canoes were abroad after the early fish most catchable then inside the reef at the change of the tide.”

  THE BONES OF KAHEKILI

• “Because that man had blundered in his love-making was no reason that he, Sheldon, should take his life.”

  Chapter 27

• “She was made glad in vague ways by the battle, for this was the love-making of the Wild, the sex-tragedy of the natural world that was tragedy only to those that died.”

  Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang

• “This was love-making of a sort beyond Dede's experience.”

  Chapter XV

• “But Saxon had no eyes for the love-making, the pleading forcefulness, the shy reluctance, of man and maid.”

  CHAPTER XVII

• “Never was there a more consummate love-making, with all the base intent of betrayal, than this cavalier seduction of Michael by the elderly, six-quart ship's steward.”

  CHAPTER 1

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