voluptuosity

The partial transcendences of pleasure and voluptuosity, sketched in 1935, receive a fuller development and variations.

Emmanuel Levinas Bergo, Bettina 2007

Finally, when the voluptuosity of his flesh surmounted him, and he might not defend himself ne his members, he bit off a piece of his tongue and spit it in her visage, which always enticed him to lechery by touching and by kissings, and so he voided the temptation fleshly, and the ribauld also, and deserved to have laud and victory.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

This was nothing; a strong desire to continue lying down; a renunciation of life; the voluptuosity of keeping still, of lying there until the approach of death, which did not arouse in him the slightest fear.

The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

On moonlight nights, tempted by the thrill of the mysterious, in a voluptuosity of fear, she stole out into the cloister where the darkness was pierced by the milky spots of the window panes.

The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

Straight ahead in a direct line was Naples with its smoking mountain, its music and its swarthy dancing girls with hoop earrings; further on, the Isles of Greece; at the foot of an Aquatic Street, Constantinople; and still beyond, bordering the great liquid court of the Black Sea, a series of ports where the Argonauts -- sunk in a seething mass of races, fondled by the felinism of slaves, the voluptuosity of the Orientals, and the avarice of the Jews -- were fast forgetting their origin.

Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

Between the voluptuosity and the flat-out groovin’ that took place, I must say it was one of THE most awesome nights in my life.

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