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  • Riley beat out Dorian as my 2nd fav Hero ... but alas my heart belongs to Hawke who made some cameos n this book. .i love his tortured Sienna "love-scenes" i just know that if and hopefully when these 2 hit the sheets its going to be postively volatile. please please dont let Kit anywhere near Sienna who needs a little boy when she can have a real MAN err wolf! ps ..

    Branded By Fire Spoiler Thread Nalini Singh 2009

  • Gemma was less successful in the parts of young girls — of so-called ‘jeunes premières’; in the love-scenes in particular she failed; she was conscious of this herself, and for that reason gave them a faint shade of irony as though she did not quite believe in all these rapturous vows and elevated sentiments, of which the author, however, was himself rather sparing — so far as he could be.

    The Torrents of Spring 2006

  • Where the untitled Mountclere of the White Rose faction had spread his knees over the brands, when the place was a castle and not a court, the still-room maid now simmered her preserves; and where Elizabethan mothers and daughters of that sturdy line had tapestried the love-scenes of Isaac and Jacob, boots and shoes were now cleaned and coals stowed away.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • The love-scenes are sufficiently contracted to produce that very uncommon sensation in the mind, — a wish that they were longer.

    Waverley 2004

  • “Waverley,” certainly does not linger over love-scenes.

    Waverley 2004

  • And to the gaps which this habit made in my knowledge of the story more were added by the fact that when it was Mamma who was reading to me aloud she left all the love-scenes out.

    Swann's Way 2003

  • ‘Well, I mean that love-scenes, and that kind of thing, would be very much in your line.’

    New Grub Street 2003

  • “One of the finest love-scenes that was ever written,” whispered Madeleine in her decisive way.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • When the fictionally inevitable happens and an Eve breaks into this protected Eden there follow some boy-and-girl love-scenes that may perhaps remind you -- and what praise could be higher?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 Various

  • Don't laugh, gentle reader, at the conjugal embrace of that middle-aged pair, which seals the quarrel about the Irish girl; but believe me, there is more real sentiment in it than in most of the love-scenes you may have read about.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

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