Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The breeding season, when any animal mates or pairs; pairing-time.
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Examples
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Returning to the rationality which they forsook during mating-time, they cannot live a joint rational existence without compromising.
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It was his day of days, his love-time and his mating-time, and all crowned by this virginal possession of a mate who had said "Oh, Elam," as she had said it, and looked at him out of her soul as she had looked.
Chapter XXIV 2010
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The warm spring days passed in a riot of song from the depths outside the post, the Assiniboine rippled and whispered along its shores and over the illimitable stretches of the wilderness there hung the very spirit of the mating-time.
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Other offers had been declined with the same characteristic firmness until now the golden season of mating-time was past, and although she was still a pretty little woman the stamp of spinsterhood was unalterably fixed upon her.
Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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When full-grown the females outnumber the males about three to one; and the sexes stay together for only a few days at mating-time.
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It was his day of days, his love-time and his mating-time, and all crowned by this virginal possession of a mate who had said "Oh, Elam," as she had said it, and looked at him out of her soul as she had looked.
Chapter XXIV 1910
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All tam show off lak a cock-grouse in mating-time.
The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911
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"This is mating-time; this is Gringo's honeymoon," and he followed the trail for a while, not expecting to find them, but simply to know their movements.
Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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It stole into the shadows of a great pine-tree, and touched the white wings of the pigeons as they cooed the song of mating-time.
Little Sister Snow Frances Little 1902
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Yet it was only that this was mating-time, and the tender and the maternal strove blindly in her, and brought forth a largess great enough to touch other lots besides her own.
Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902
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