embracements

Know Slave, that I did not so earnestly desire thy sweete embracements before, but now as deadly

The Decameron 2004

I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won honour than in the embracements of his bed where he would show most love.

The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

For, in succession of time, whether he enjoyed the embracements of his new Mistresse, or no: yet

The Decameron 2004

When he was come, a thousand huggings, a thousand embracements, a thousand good days were given.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

When he was come, a thousand huggings, a thousand embracements, a thousand good days were given.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

'If my son were my husband', she ventures, T should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won honour than in the embracements of his bed where he would show most love. '

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

And the depraved custom of change, and the delight in meretricious embracements (where sin is turned into art), maketh marriage a dull thing, and a kind of imposition or tax.

The New Atlantis 2002

What 'he' does she mean that claims the 'embracements' of the marital bed?

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

I cannot measure so as to know, how much love there yet lacketh to me, ere my life may run into Thy embracements, nor turn away, until it be hidden in the hidden place of Thy Presence.

The Confessions 1999

If my son were my husband, I would freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won honour than in the embracements of his bed where he would show most love.

Act I. Scene III. Coriolanus 1914