The 7,491 occurrences of make love
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If he was so fortunate as to have lands, he had generally passed his life on them, shooting, fishing, carousing, and making love among his vassals.
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Those officers who won his favour by servility and adulation easily obtained leave of absence, and spent weeks in London, revelling in taverns, scouring the streets, or making love to the masked ladies in the pit of the theatre.
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The poet's Mussulman princes make love in the style of Amadis, preach about the death of Socrates, and embellish their discourse with allusions to the mythological stories of Ovid.
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406 The humble student would not have dared to raise his eyes to a lady of family; but, when he had become a clergyman, he began, after the fashion of the clergymen of that generation, to make love to a pretty waitingmaid who was the chief ornament of the servants' hall, and whose name is inseparably associated with his in a sad and mysterious history.
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No man told a story with more vivacity; no man sate his horse better in a hunting party; no man made love with more success; no man staked and lost heaps of gold with more agreeable unconcern; no man was more intimately acquainted with the adventures, the attachments, the enmities of the lords and ladies who daily filled the halls of Versailles.
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), That I shall be past making love When she begins to comprehend it.
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Why then should I seek further store, And still make love anew?
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Long I ne'er saw thee, love, Robin Adair; Still I prayed for thee, love, Robin Adair; When thou wert far at sea, Many made love to me, But still I thought on thee, Robin Adair!
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Perchance my heart may pardon you this deed: But be no coward:--you that made Love bleed, You must bear all the venom of his tooth!
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William Cullen Bryant [1794-1878] THE O'LINCON FAMILY A flock of merry singing-birds were sporting in the grove; Some were warbling cheerily, and some were making love: There were Bobolincon, Wadolincon, Winterseeble, Conquedle,-- A livelier set was never led by tabor, pipe, or fiddle,-- Crying, "Phew, shew, Waldolincon, see, see, Bobolincon, Down among the tickletops, hiding in the buttercups!
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Then every cross-bow had a string, And every heart a fetter; And making love was quite the thing, And making verses better; And maiden-aunts were never seen, And gallant beaux were plenty; And lasses married at sixteen, And died at one-and-twenty.
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In truthful numbers be she sung, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue; Concerning whom, Fame hints at things Told but in shrugs and whisperings: Ambitious from her natal hour, And scheming all her life for power; With little left of seemly pride; With venomed fangs she cannot hide; Who half makes love to you to-day, To-morrow gives her guest away.
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"And you betray your taste when you make love to a pink-and-white doll, a little fool that has no more wit nor manners than if she were painted on canvas!"
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The hero and heroine make love.
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There was Rowlandson's "Doctor Syntax": Doctor Syntax in a fuzz-wig, on a horse with legs like sausages, riding races, making love, frolicking with rosy exuberant damsels.
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So, instead of spoiling parchment, I made love to the notary's daughter.
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Do you think the deformed gentleman means to make love to Iris?--I said.
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There is one way of learning it,--making love to her.
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She wondered how the young people there liked it, or whether there were any young people there; perhaps nobody was young and nobody was old, but they were like mummies all of them--what an idea --two mummies making love to each other!
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I am at last perfectly satisfied that our Landlady has no designs on the Capitalist, and as well convinced that any fancy of mine that he was like to make love to her was a mistake.
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They stroll and take their little provincial pleasure and make love, for all we can see, as if Antigonish were a part of the world.
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where the ivy now clusters there grew strong portcullis and bars of steel; where the wallflower now quivers in the rampart there were silken banners embroidered with wonderful heraldry; men-at-arms marched where now you shall only see a bank of moss or a hideous black champignon; and in place of the rats and owlets, I warrant me there were ladies and knights to revel in the great halls, and to feast, and to dance, and to make love there.
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"It wasn't as brother and sister you made love to me at Angel's."
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Had he really made love to her--really promised to take her away to live with him?
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It was the Greeks--wasn't it?--made love into a goddess; they were right, I dare say, but then they lived in the Golden Age."
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"Terence was too busy making love to you," said Sylvia, and there was the least suspicion of regret in her almost boyish voice.
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Perhaps the new-comer will make love to her,--I should think it possible she might fancy him.
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"And so you advise me to make love to the English girl, do you?" asked the Tutor.
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Why, that they have made love to her, and would be entitled to her diploma, if she gave a parchment to each one of them who had had the courage to face the inevitable.
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She, on the other hand, has so much more experience, so much more practical wisdom, than he has that he consults her on many every-day questions, as he did, or made believe do, about that of making love to one of the two Annexes.
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"What would Amanda think of a suitor who courted her with a rhyming dictionary in his pocket to help him make love?"
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Think of Cleopatra, the bewitching old mischief-maker; think of Ninon de L'Enclos, whose own son fell desperately in love with her, not knowing the relation in which she stood to him; think of Dr. Johnson's friend, Mrs. Thrale, afterward Mrs. Piozzi, who at the age of eighty was full enough of life to be making love ardently and persistently to Conway, the handsome young actor.
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In fact, Mr. Hamlin seldom made love to anybody, but permitted it to be made to him with good-humored deprecation and cheerful skepticism.
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At any rate, so it seemed to Dick Venner, who, as was said before, had tried making love to her.
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The mansion-house young men were off at college or in the cities, or making love to each other's sisters, or at any rate unavailable for some reason or other.
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What will happen, though, if he makes love to her?
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Yet her name was never coupled with that of any youth or man, until this cousin had provoked remark by his visit; and even then it was oftener in the shape of wondering conjectures whether he would dare to make love to her, than in any pretended knowledge of their relations to each other, that the public tongue exercised its village-prerogative of tattle.
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The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love.
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As to the thought of his nephew's making love to his daughter, it had almost passed from his mind.
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He won't make love to two at once, unless they 're both pretty young, I 'll warrant.
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The young man had not made love to her directly, but he had interested her in herself by a delicate and tender flattery of manner, and so set her fancies working that she was taken with him as never before, and wishing that the Parsonage had been a mile farther from The Poplars.
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If he chose to make love to a child, it was natural enough that he should begin by courting her nurse.
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Is that fellow making love to Myrtle?"
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A young man slighting the lovely heroine of the little comedy and making love to her grandmother!
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Euthymia had had admirers enough, at a distance, while at school, and in the long vacations, near enough to find out that she was anything but easy to make love to.
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He was, as you know, greatly mistaken, and ought to have made love to me, only he did n't.
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Since you met ME clandestinely in trains and made love to ME under an assumed name?
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Parozzi.--Oh, wait till to-morrow, and then he may make love to the devil and his grandmother, if he likes it.
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It seems, however, that this young protege of yours, Larisch, has been making love to her over Otto's head."
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After that, not daring to look at her, but with his eyes fixed on the irregular sky-line of the city roofs, he told her many things, of his promise to the King, of the danger, imminent now and very real, of his word of honor not to make love to her, which he had broken.
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She recognised nothing less provincial than European society, and her fine folk knew each other and made love to each other from Doncaster to Bucharest.
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I remember, that captain of yours--he who slew Mermes, your daughter's husband who made love to me--so well that I rewarded him with a funeral flower, knowing that you watched us.
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As he stood at the street entrance of the big station, waiting for Johnny Caruthers and the Green Imp, this is what he was saying to himself: "Red, you've made more than one woman unhappy, to say nothing of yourself, by making love to her because she was a beauty and your head swam.
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The Intendant has made love to me with pointed gallantry that could have no other meaning but that he honorably sought my hand.
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Most women do, but I did not think that even the Intendant of New France was bold enough to make love to Angélique des Meloises while he kept a wife or mistress in stately seclusion at Beaumanoir!"
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"It is a sixth sense given to our sex to protect our weakness: no man can make love to two women but each of them knows instinctively to her finger-tips that he is doing it."
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You love her too well to give her up, and still you make love to me.
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"Well, _I_ do then, my boy; I heard all about your making love to her.
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"It was little Rose, our neighbour, whom you said I was making love to, because you found us together at the spring in the little wood.
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He was a man about town at that period, and was making love to the demoiselle Jacqueline de la Garde; he had succeeded in gaining her affections, and brought matters to such a point that she no longer refused her favours except on the grounds of her pregnancy and the danger of an indiscretion.
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"It was little Rose, our neighbour, whom you said I was making love to, because you found us together at the spring in the little wood.
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He was a man about town at that period, and was making love to the demoiselle Jacqueline de la Garde; he had succeeded in gaining her affections, and brought matters to such a point that she no longer refused her favours except on the grounds of her pregnancy and the danger of an indiscretion.
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Make love to you?"
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Everything, too, must be pleaded in excuse for this unfortunate bagman: who, if he wished to pass for a captain, had only done so because he had an intense respect and longing for rank: if he had made love to the Baroness, had only done so because he was given to understand by Lord Byron's "Don Juan" that making love was a very correct, natty thing: and if he had gambled, had only been induced to do so by the bright eyes and example of the Baron and the Baroness.
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"A pretty pickle you have put yourself in, Mr. Pogson, by making love to other men's wives, and calling yourself names," said the Major, who was restored to good humor.
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We are married, and have fourteen children, and would just as soon make love to the Pope of Rome as to any one but our own wife.
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If you do not make love to Flicflac, from the day after her marriage to the day she reaches sixty, she thinks you a fool.
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The lovely-creature meets the fascinating Gerfaut at Paris; instantly the latter makes love to her; a duel takes place: baron killed; wife throws herself out of window; Gerfaut plunges into dissipation; and so the tale ends.
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I have seen her make love to, and murder, her sons, in the "Tour de Nesle."
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Shelton himself had given up the effort with his neighbours, and made love to his dinner, which, surviving the incoherence of the atmosphere, emerged as a work of art.
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So, you see, he would have plenty to gurgle about to a woman--with that and his sound common sense about martingales and his--still sentimental--experiences as a county magistrate; and with his intense, optimistic belief that the woman he was making love to at the moment was the one he was destined, at last, to be eternally constant to.... Well, I fancy he could put up a pretty good deal of talk when there was no man around to make him feel shy.
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For it is quite possible that, if I had known Nancy was going away so soon, I should have tried making love to her.
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I haven't had time to make love to you in the ordinary way, but I really do love you.
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Was it for me that you made love to the citizen-blackguard?
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Never mind how old your ladyship is, he will make love to you; never mind what errints you send him upon, he'll trot off and do them.
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He wasn't going, then, to make love to Miss Griffin!
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"Perfectly--you made love to her, and she was almost in love with you; you jilted her for money, she got a man to shoot your hand off in revenge: no more dice-boxes, now, Deuceace; no more sauter la coupe.
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"May I ask you, in turn, how you came to be so little squeamish about a wife, as to choose a woman who had just been making love to your own son?" says Deuceace, growing fierce.
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Men don't make love in this finniking way.
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The herdsmen and shepherds smoked there, lounged there, trained their dogs there; there the young made love, and the old dozed; the benches, which ran the entire length of the walls, were worn into hollows, and shone like satin; the tiled floors also were broken and sunk in places, making little wells, which filled up in times of hard rains, and were then an invaluable addition to the children's resources for amusement, and also to the comfort of the dogs, cats, and fowls, who picked about among them, taking sips from each.
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"My God." he said, "the Senorita thought me making love to that girl.
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This was my way of drawing Dora into a flirtation, my first attempt in that direction, though in my heart I had been making love to her for weeks I told her the story of my acquaintance with Matilda.
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CHAPTER V GUSSIE, the finisher-girl to whom I had once made love with a view to marrying her for her money, worked in the vicinity of my factory and I met her from time to time on the Avenue.
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But the worst of all was the one who would make love in public and insisted on proposing in the middle of a dance.
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Now, get your traps out of this as soon as you can; and be off to make love to Miss Kitty."
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She could not tell him the grounds of her belief-that every time he had said, "I don't like to see a woman do -this or that," or, "I like to see a woman fix up around the house," she had considered his words in the light of courtship, believing that in such ways the Yankees made love.
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He pressed their hands and evidently restrained himself only by an effort from embracing them, for the Senator had a marked regard for pretty women, and had made love to every girl with any pretensions to beauty that had appeared in the State of New York for fully half a century.
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The young men were always riding about the country, betting on horse-races, gambling, drinking, fighting, and making love.
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What right had this man this Thing I had picked out of his filthy paddy-fields to make love to me?'
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Kurrell had been making love to Mrs. Vansuythen would do Vansuythen as great a wrong as he had done Boulte, who caught himself considering whether Mrs. Vansuythen would faint if she discovered that the man she loved had forsworn her.
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Guy, have you ever made love to a girl a good girl?
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As Mr. Hartland calls Daramulun "an eternal Creator with a game leg" who "died," he may call Zeus an "eternal father, who swallowed his wife, lay with his mother and sister, made love as a swan, and died, nay, was buried, in Crete".
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But the Zeus whose grave was shown in Crete, or the Zeus who played Demeter an obscene trick by the aid of a ram, or the Zeus who, in the shape of a swan, became the father of Castor and Pollux, or the Zeus who deceived Hera by means of a feigned marriage with an inanimate object, or the Zeus who was afraid of Attes, or the Zeus who made love to women in the shape of an ant or a cuckoo, is a being whose myth is felt to be unnatural and bewildering.
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Under these disguises they conduct many amours, even with the daughters of men, and Greek houses were proud of their descent from Zeus in the shape of an eagle or ant, a serpent or a swan; while Cronus and the Vedic Tvashtri and Poseidon made love as horses, and Apollo as a dog.
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But when once mythical fancy plays round him, and stories are told about him, he is credited with a wife who is an eel or a shrimp, just as Zeus made love as an ant or a cuckoo.
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Did she think I was making love to her?"
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It suddenly came upon her that her situation was one which a few weeks ago she would have deemed deeply romantic: the park of an old English country-house, with the foreground embellished by a "great" (as she supposed) nobleman in the act of making love to a young lady who, on careful inspection, should be found to present remarkable analogies with herself.
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"You who know everything," she said, "you must know this: whether that curious creature's really making love to my niece."
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I don't mean to make love to her again."
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