The 7,491 occurrences of make love

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I have known this woman two years; I have danced and dined with her, made love, and here I can scarce breathe!

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It is the art of making love.

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There was a woman, once, whom he lured away from me; he gained the commission in the Guards over my head; he was making love to Madame de Brissac, while I, poor fool, loitered in the antechamber.

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"O, no, father; the young gentlemen have hardly spoken to me, and if I should wait for them to make love, I should never be married."

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Only let me have my own way, and make love to me, and we shall get along quite pleasantly."

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Had Sam conducted himself with a certain degree of circumspection no suspicions would have been excited by his conduct; but the devil prompted him to make love to a pretty woman who was present in company with her husband, the latter an old man, ugly as sin, and jealous as Othello.

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"I don't care how ungallant it is, for I know it to be true," replied Mr. Brown, with great candor; "ten years ago, I made love to the prettiest piece of flesh and blood that ever walked on two legs, or allowed her hair to curl in ringlets.

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Who is to be the happy man, so blessed--even though in these fictitious circumstances--as to be allowed to make love to the reigning beauty of the past season?

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Is it only acting in the final scene when he makes love to Miss Hardcastle, or is there some real sentiment in it?

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And our pretty Hamdi made love to her, and she was mad about him and so, presently, it happens that he must marry her, for it would be terrible to have disgrace upon the wife's family.

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The first little wife dies and he shut the second up here, teasing her sometimes, sometimes making love when he is dull, but forcing her to his will for fear he will divorce her.... How she must have hated you, when she had to play that sister.

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Before----" "Before?" the other repeated curiously, "He makes love to you--h'm?"

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And I pretend make love to one very pretty girl, tell her how I come marry her when I old enough and make enough, and hold up piece money to show how rich I am.

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She had ceased to feel afraid; her blood was on fire; it was battle now between them; perhaps a battle of the wits a little longer, then---- "In America men do not make love by force," she flung at him.

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"I did; he--he was trying to make love to me," she answered breathlessly, "and I just got to the candles."

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And he could "make love like an angel."

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You have taken it very quietly, and seen your betrothed make love to another girl before your very eyes."

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And your father need never know that his trusty servant, his clever assistant, his faithful confidant, who shares all his secrets, is a good-for-nothing fellow who spends his nights in gambling, or drinking, or perhaps in making love to some Venetian girl as honourable and well behaved as himself!"

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"Why," insisted the older man, "have you seen fit to conduct yourself with the irrationality of a madman by trundling a music-machine about the country and making love to a girl you tried in a moment of fright and frenzy--to kill?"

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So much of the time I'm too busy to make love to my wife, I'm going to do it to-day--all day.

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"To have you make love to me without the chance of a telephone call to break in will be a wonderful treat."

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He had no prepossessions in favour of innocence, and he put people who did not make love in the same class as vegetarians, but he was immensely relieved.

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He certainly would not make love to Ellen.

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"Do you want me to go?" he asked, with the frank bad manners of a man who is making love in a hurry.

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He made himself forget in laughter the priceless moment that had passed, and he told himself, as sternly as once in South America he had had to tell himself that he must stop drinking, that her mother had been right, and he must not make love to her because she was too young.

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Every woman to whom he wanted to make love was certain to be engaged in some defensive struggle against fate, for that is the condition of strong personality, and his quick sense would soon detect its nature; and since there is nothing more lovable than the sight of a soul standing up against fate, looking so little under the dome of the indifferent sky, he would find himself nearly in love.

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I wouldn't dare to make love to any woman in case I saw--what I've seen in your face--what I saw in your face that night I came out on you from the belvedere.

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Rage came into his face without displacing his intention to make love to her.

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The nurse tossed her pretty head with its wealth of jet black hair, and as she smoothed his pillows with infinite care she murmured: "Fighting and making love, making love and fighting--it is all one to you, Karl.

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They are either eating, smoking, sleeping, or making love; and they do enough love-making in twenty-four hours to last an ordinary everyday sort of white man four months, even if he puts in a little overtime.

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When the sun comes out to-morrow and the day after, he will be dancing a most unholy dance or be making love to "Dinah," filling in the intervals by cursing in three different languages stray horses that steal our fodder.

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These natives know how to make love, and they know how to make war, but, as my soul liveth, they don't know how to make beer.

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One, as a matter of course," with a shrug of her dainty shoulders, "lets the nearest man make love to one---- But Maurice must marry for money, and so must you."

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"Are you asking me to make love to this girl--to pretend an admiration for her that I do not feel?

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You would probably end by making love to her, but I won't have it; mind, I won't have it!

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"I'll have one good time and spend a whole year's interest if I choose," he said, and he had a good time and made love to a little Western heiress, whose eyes were like those of Eloise, and first attracted him to her, and who before the season was over promised to be his wife.

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Harlson felt in his heart that the girl's apprehensions were not altogether groundless, but, as was said, he was in perfect health and had a pride, and he cast away the thought and but made love.

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"But why haven't I as good a right to make love to Jenny as you or any other man?"

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And Grant Harlson made love to Jean Cornish and won her heart.

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His head is like Lord Byron's, and he's a real Don Juan, only faithful: he's discovered the secret of making love eternal: I shall perhaps obtain a second crop of it from her example.

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Outside there was a crowd of women, girls, and young men, the young men wrapped in white sheets under which they carry off, and make love to, the dusky maidens.

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This is the way a Titon "makes love."

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Our remainder of two millions do not require five sous to make love.

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To speak of love is to make love.

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You are married, and do you deliberately set about making love to some one else?

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"There arrived here to-day a kind of philosopher," she began, "he professes to have compiled a book which describes all the wiles of which my sex is capable; and then this sham sage made love to me."

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Our remainder of two millions do not require five sous to make love.

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To speak of love is to make love.

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You are married, and do you deliberately set about making love to some one else?

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"There arrived here to-day a kind of philosopher," she began, "he professes to have compiled a book which describes all the wiles of which my sex is capable; and then this sham sage made love to me."

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His head is like Lord Byron's, and he's a real Don Juan, only faithful: he's discovered the secret of making love eternal: I shall perhaps obtain a second crop of it from her example.

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_Enter the Emperor, unseen by them._ _Ind._ My rebel's punishment would easy prove; You know you're in my power, by making love.

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[1] In the mean time we may take notice, that where the poet ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity, when he should have given us the picture of a rough young man, of the Amazonian strain, a jolly huntsman, and both by his profession and his early rising a mortal enemy to love, he has chosen to give him the turn of gallantry sent him to travel from Athens to Paris, taught him to make love, and transformed the Hippolitus of Euripides into Monsieur Hippolite.

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_Vent._ My most illustrious pandar, No fine set speech, no cadence, no turned periods, But a plain home-spun truth, is what I ask: I did, myself, o'erhear your queen make love To Dolabella.

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A still stranger thing, however, happened in the next scene, where the gay young officer, the French prisoner of war, makes love to the innkeeper's daughter.

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"But, Philip," said Pauline, "do you mean to say that this Mrs. Kurston makes love to you?

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Meantime the old man had reached the banks of the stream, and he called out: "So, Sir Knight, when I had made you welcome, as one honest man should another, here are you making love to my adopted child--to say nothing of your leaving me to seek her, alone and terrified, all night."

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It was of great height and breadth, with all the majolica lustre which Hirschvogel learned to give to his enamels when he was making love to the young Venetian girl whom he afterwards married.

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Don't make love to the pretty typewriter."

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Many made love-calls on their leader of old and unforgetable days, and Frederick sometimes was a witness to their meeting, and he marvelled anew at the mysterious charm in his brother that drew all men to him.

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"Does he think that being 'top-shearer' gives him a right to make love to Charlotte Sandal?"

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"I like all bright, honest, good lads; but when they want to make love to Miss Charlotte Sandal, they think one thing, and I think another.

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However, if he was not making love to you at the shearing, won't you find it a bit difficult to speak your mind?

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I caught her eyes on me sometimes; and she seemed to be appraising me, I thought in my stupidity, as to whether she could trust me not to make love to her; but now, as I think, for a very different reason; and I would see her sometimes as I went out of doors, peeping at me for an instant out of a window.

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"I never made love to any girls.

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The governor, I must tell my readers, was a very great swell, a general, a K.C.B., &c., and his daughter was a mighty pretty girl, much run after by the garrison; so it was thought great impertinence on my part, as a humble sub-lieutenant, to presume to make love to the reigning, if not the only, beauty in the place.

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He received me with, 'What the d--- l do you mean, young sir, by making love to my daughter?

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It is really pretty enough that every absurd animal, who takes upon him to make love to one, is to fancy himself entitled to a return: I have no patience with the men's ridiculousness: have you, Lucy?

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Such is the amazing force of local prejudice, that I do not recollect having ever made love to an English married woman, or a French unmarried one.

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I like the winter carriages immensely; the open carriole is a kind of one-horse chaise, the covered one a chariot, set on a sledge to run on the ice; we have not yet had snow enough to use them, but I like their appearance prodigiously; the covered carrioles seem the prettiest things in nature to make love in, as there are curtains to draw before the windows: we shall have three in effect, my father's, Rivers's, and Fitzgerald's; the two latter are to be elegance itself, and entirely for the service of the ladies: your brother and Fitzgerald are trying who shall be ruined first for the honor of their country.

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We have amused ourselves within doors, for there is no stirring abroad, with playing at cards, playing at shuttlecock, playing the fool, making love, and making moral reflexions: upon the whole, the week has not been very disagreable.

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I am very fond of him, though he never makes love to me, in which circumstance he is very singular: our friendship is quite platonic, at least on his side, for I am not quite so sure on the other.

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I believe absolutely he is going to make love to me: 'tis a critical hour, Lucy; and to rob one's friend of a lover is really a temptation.

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My dear papa talks of taking a house near you, and of having a garden to rival yours: we shall spend a good deal of time with him, and I shall make love to Rivers, which you know will be vastly pretty.

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"Oh, it's you, Guy Rivers--and you here too, Munro, making love to one another, I reckon, for want of better stuff.

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With warm, pure emotions; with a pride only limited by a true sense of propriety; with an ambition whose eye was sunward ever; with affections which rendered life doubly desirable, and which made love a high and holy aspiration: with these several and predominating feelings struggling in his soul, to be told of such a doom; to be stricken from the respect of his fellows; to forfeit life, and love, and reputation; to undergo the punishment of the malefactor, and to live in memory only as a felon--ungrateful, foolish, fiendish--a creature of dishonest passions, and mad and merciless in their exercise!

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Oh, how unlike those merry hours In early June when Earth laughs out, When the fresh winds make love to flowers, And woodlands sing and waters shout.

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I saw him in Matheson's boarding-house making love to one of the hired girls, and she seemed quite pleased with his polite attentions.

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So Mr. Thorne looked about him for some more eligible opening for his troublesome son; and Alfred meanwhile, with his handsome face and honest smile, was busy making love to Sarah Percival, the rector's daughter.

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Old men, who remembered 1870, gave their arms to old ladies to whom they had made love when the Prussians were at the gates of Paris then.

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Crickey, on the principle of doing as she would be done by, marched Bluebell on in front, so that the others might linger behind, and make love upon the usual pattern.

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Hark, those two in the hazel coppice-- A boy and a girl, if the good fates please, Making love, say,-- The happier they!

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He made love to you in a very gallant, courteous fashion.

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"Were you," she asked hesitatingly at length, "were you--making love to me--that night?"

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Did he make love to you?"

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"And then another man came along, a great, surly, fogheaded Englishman, who made love to her till she was nearly driven crazy.

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But not one of these men who protested and made love to me, would have put themselves out to do what Harry Luttrell did.

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Brigands or murderers as such held no terrors for the daughter of the Droitwiches; she only would have been afraid of them if they left off being brigands and murderers and began instead to try and make love.

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At present the discomfort and sorrow of not feeling at liberty to make love to the woman he loved was some excuse for avoiding thought, and he found distraction in hard work and social engagements.

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I've been making love to you, with the choicest store of loving arts, for eight long months; and the first blush I've been enabled to raise on your lovely countenance is when I tell you you've more money than you looked for!

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"I don't ask you to make love to me!" she said, sharply.

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You are the only man at the Half-and-Half who hasn't made love to me."

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"Who is again making love to you?" inquired Mr. Fabian again.

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How many bitter tears I have shed, when I observed how you encouraged that shark who made love to my wife while he feasted at my table."

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CONTENTS CHAPTER I Preparations for the Start--Our Dry Goods Relished by the Cattle--I Become a "Compadre"--Beautiful Northern Sonora--Mexican Muleteers Preferable in Their Own Country--Apache Stories--Signs of Ancient Inhabitants--Arrival at Upper Yaqui River--Opata Indians now Mexicanised--A Flourishing Medical Practice--Mexican Manners--Rock-carvings--How Certain Cacti Propagate, Pages 1-16 CHAPTER II A Remarkable Antique Piece--A New Species of Century Plant--Arrival at Nacori, at the Foot of the Sierra Madre--Trincheras--A Mammoth Tusk Secured--Climbing the Sierra Madre--A New Squirrel Discovered--Solitude--Apache Monuments--Arrival at Upper Bavispe River, Pages 17-40 CHAPTER III Camping at Upper Bavispe River--Low Stone Cabins, Fortresses, and Other Remains Indicating Former Habitation--The Animals Starve on the Winter Grass of the Sierra and Begin to Give Out--A Deserted Apache Camp--comfort at Last--The Giant Woodpecker--We Arrive at the Mormon Settlements of Pacheco and Cave Valley, Pages 41-59 CHAPTER IV A Splendid Field Prepared for Us by the Ancient Agriculturists of Cave Valley--House Groups in Caves Along a Pretty Stream--Well-preserved Mummies Found in Caves--More Trincheras--Our Excavations in Caves and Mounds Confirm to the Mormons their Sacred Stories--We Move to the Plains of San Diego--Visit to Casas Grandes and the Watch-tower--Successful Excavations of the Mounds near San Diego, Pages 60-98 CHAPTER V Second Expedition--Return to the Sierra--Parrots in the Snow--Cave-dwellings at Garabato, the most Beautiful in Northern Mexico--A Superb View of the Sierra Madre--The Devil's Spine Ridge--Guaynopa, the Famous Old Silver Mine--Aros River--On Old Trails--Adventures of "El Chino"--Cure for Poison Ivy, Pages 99-117 CHAPTER VI Fossils, and One Way of Utilising Them--Temosachic--The First Tarahumares--Ploughs with Wooden Shares--Visit to the Southern Pimas--Aboriginal Hat Factories--Pinos Altos--The Waterfall near Jesus Maria--An Adventure with Ladrones, Pages 118-135 CHAPTER VII The Uncontaminated Tarahumares--A Tarahumare Court in Session--The Power of the Staff--Justice has its Course--Barrancas--Excursion to the Gentiles--Tarahumare Costumes Simple and Inexpensive--Trincheras in Use Among the Tarahumares, Pages 136-155 CHAPTER VIII The Houses of the Tarahumares--American Cave-dwellings of To-day--Frequent Changes of Abode by the Tarahumare--The Patio or Dancing Place--The Original Cross of America--Tarahumare Storehouses, Pages 156-178 CHAPTER IX Arrival at Batopilas--Ascent from Batopilas to the Highlands of the Sierra--A Tarahumare who had been in Chicago--An Old-timer--Flight of Our Native Guide and its Disastrous Consequences--Indians Burn the Grass All Over the Country--Travelling Becomes too Difficult for the Animals--Mr. Taylor and I Go to Zapuri--Its Surroundings--The Pithaya in Season, Pages 179-189 CHAPTER X Nice-looking Natives--Albinos--Ancient Remains in Ohuivo--Local Traditions, the Cocoyomes, etc.--Guachochic--Don Miguel and "The Postmaster"--A Variety of Curious Cures--Gauchochic Becomes My Head-quarters--The Difficulty of Getting an Honest Interpreter--False Truffles--The Country Suffering from a Prolonged Drought--A Start in a Northwesterly Direction--Arrival at the Pueblo of Norogachic, Pages 190-202 CHAPTER XI A Priest and His Family Make the Wilderness Comfortable for Us--Ancient Remains Similar to those Seen in Sonora--The Climate of the Sierra--Flora and Fauna--Tarahumare Agriculture--Ceremonies Connected with the Planting of Corn--Deterioration of Domestic Animals--Native Dogs of Mexico, Pages 203-217 CHAPTER XII The Tarahumares Still Afraid of Me--Don Andres Madrid to the Rescue--Mexican Robbers Among the Tarahumares--Mode of Burial in Ancient Caves--Visit to Nonoava--The Indians Change their Minds about Me, and Regard Me as a Rain-god--What the Tarahumares Eat--A Pretty Church in the Wilderness--I Find at Last a Reliable Interpreter and Proceed to Live à l'Indienne, Pages 218-234 CHAPTER XIII The Tarahumare Physique--Bodily Movements--Not as Sensitive to Pain as White Men--Their Phenomenal Endurance--Health--Honesty--Dexterity and Ingenuity--Good Observers of the Celestial Bodies and Weather-forecasters--Hunting and Shooting--Home Industries--Tesvino, the Great National Drink of the Tribe--Other Alcoholic Drinks, Pages 235-257 CHAPTER XIV Politeness, and the Demands of Etiquette--The Daily Life of the Tarahumare--The Woman's Position is High--Standard of Beauty--Women Do the Courting--Love's Young Dream--Marriage Ceremonies, Primitive and Civilised--Childbirth--Childhood, Pages 258-275 CHAPTER XV Many Kinds of Games Among the Tarahumares--Betting and Gambling--Foot-races the National Sport--The Tarahumares are the Greatest Runners in the World--Divinations for the Race--Mountains of Betting Stakes--Women's Races, Pages 276-294 CHAPTER XVI Religion--Mother Moon Becomes the Virgin Mary--Myths--The Creation--The Deluge--Folk-lore--The Crow's Story to the Parrot--Brother Coyote--Beliefs about Animals, Pages 295-310 CHAPTER XVII The Shamans or Wise Men of the Tribe--Healers and Priests in One--Disease Caused by Looks and Thoughts--Everybody and Everything has to be Cured--Nobody Feels Well without His "Doctor"--Sorcery--The Powers of Evil are as Great as those of Good--Remarkable Cure for Snake-bite--Trepanning Among the Ancient Tarahumares, Pages 311-329 CHAPTER XVIII Relation of Man to Nature--Dancing as a Form of Worship Learned from the Animals--Tarahumare Sacrifices--The Rutuburi Dance Taught by the Turkey--The Yumari Learned from the Deer--Tarahumare Rain Songs--Greeting the Sun--Tarahumare Oratory--The Flowing Bowl--The National Importance of Tesvino--Homeward Bound, Pages 330-355 CHAPTER XIX Plant-worship--Hikuli--Internal and External Effects--Hikuli both Man and God--How the Tarahumares Obtain the Plant, and where They Keep It--The Tarahumare Hikuli Feast--Musical Instruments--Hikuli Likes Noise--The Dance--Hikuli's Departure in the Morning--Other Kinds of Cacti Worshipped--"Doctor" Rubio, the Great Hikuli Expert--The Age of Hikuli Worship, Pages 356-379 CHAPTER XX The Tarahumare's Firm Belief in a Future Life--Causes of Death--The Dead are Mischievous and Want Their Families to Join Them--Therefore the Dead Have to be Kept Away by Fair Means or Foul--Three Feasts and a Chase--Burial Customs--A Funeral Sermon, Pages 380-390 CHAPTER XXI Three Weeks on Foot Through the Barranca--Rio Fuerte--I Get My Camera Wet--Ancient Cave-dwellings Ascribed to the Tubar Indians--The Effect of a Compliment--Various Devices for Catching Fish--Poisoning the Water--A Blanket Seine, Pages 391-407 CHAPTER XXII Resumption of the Journey Southward--_Pinus Lumholtzii_--Cooking with Snow--Terror-stricken Indians--A Gentlemanly Highwayman and His "Shooting-box"--The Pernicious Effect of Civilisation Upon the Tarahumares--A Fine Specimen of the Tribe--The Last of the Tarahumares, Pages 408-421 CHAPTER XXIII Cerro de Muinora, the Highest Mountain in Chihuahua--The Northern Tepehuanes--Troubles Cropping Out of the Camera--Sinister Designs on Mexico Attributed to the Author--Maizillo--Foot-races Among the Tepehuanes--Influence of the Mexicans Upon the Tepehunaes, and _Vice Versa_--Profitable Liquor Traffic--Medicine Lodges--Cucuduri, the Master of the Woods--Myth of the Pleiades, Pages 422-436 CHAPTER XXIV On to Morelos--Wild and Broken Country--The Enormous Flower-spike of the Amole--Subtropical Vegetation of Northwestern Mexico--Destructive Ants--The Last of the Tubars--A Spectral Ride--Back to the United States--An Awful Thunder-storm--Close Quarters--Zape--Antiquities--When an "Angel" Dies--Mementos of a Reign of Terror--The Great Tepehuane Revolution of 1616--The Fertile Plains of Durango, Pages 437-450 CHAPTER XXV Winter in the High Sierra--Mines--Pueblo Nuevo and Its Amiable Padre--A Ball in My Honour--_Sancta Simplicitas_--A Fatiguing Journey to the Pueblo of Lajas and the Southern Tepehuanes--Don't Travel After Nightfall!--Five Days Spent in Persuading People to Pose Before the Camera--The Regime of Old Missionary Times--Strangers Carefully Excluded--Everybody Contemplating Marriage is Arrested--Shocking Punishments for Making Love--Bad Effects of the Severity of the Laws, Pages 451-470 CHAPTER XXVI Pueblo Viejo--Three Languages Spoken Here--The Aztecs--The Musical Bow--Theories of Its Origin--Dancing Mitote--Fasting and Abstinence--Helping President Diaz--The Importance of Tribal Restrictions--Principles of Monogamy--Disposition of the Dead, Pages 471-483 CHAPTER XXVII Inexperienced Help--How to Acquire Riches from the Mountains--Sierra del Nayarit--The Coras--Their Aversion to "Papers"--Their Part in Mexican Politics--A Déjeuner à la Fourchette--La Danza, Pages 484-495 CHAPTER XXVIII A Glimpse of the Pacific from the High Sierra--A Visionary Idyl--The Coras Do Not Know Fear--An Un-Indian Indian--Pueblo of Jesus Maria--A Nice Old Cora Shaman--A Padre Denounces Me as a Protestant Missionary--Trouble Ensuing from His Mistake--Scorpions, Pages 496-507 CHAPTER XXIX A Cordial Reception at San Francisco--Mexicans in the Employ of Indians --The Morning Star, the Great God of the Coras--The Beginning of the World--How the Rain-clouds were First Secured--The Rabbit and the Deer--Aphorisms of a Cora Shaman--An Eventful Night--Hunting for Skulls--My Progress Impeded by Padre's Ban--Final Start for the Huichol Country--A Threatened Desertion, Pages 508-530 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of the Author _Frontispiece_ A Dasylirion, 1 Cottonwood, 4 _Cereus Greggii_, a small cactus with enormous root, 5 Fronteras, 7 Remarkable Ant-hill, 8 Church Bells at Opoto, 10 Also a Visitor, 11 A Mexican from Opoto, 12 Rock-carvings near Granados, 15 The Church in Bacadehuachi, 17 Aztec Vase, Found in the Church of Bacadehuachi, 18 _Agave Hartmani_, a new species of century plant, 19 Ancient Pecking on a Trachyte Boulder one foot square, 20 In the Hills of Northeastern Sonora, 24 Adios, Señor!

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Chapter XXV Winter in the High Sierra--Mines--Pueblo Nuevo and Its Amiable Padre--A Ball in My Honour--_Sancta Simplicitas_--A Fatiguing Journey to the Pueblo of Lajas and the Southern Tepehuanes--Don't Travel After Nightfall!--Five Days Spent in Persuading People to Pose Before the Camera--The Regime of Old Missionary Times--Strangers Carefully Excluded--Everybody Contemplating Marriage is Arrested--Shocking Punishments for Making Love--Bad Effects of the Severity of the Laws.

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That young women should not make a practice of marrying old men, that illicit passions and intrigues may bring on disaster, that it is madness to make love to another man's wife in a garden, observable by all, that it is greater madness still to keep on when a maidservant is screaming that some one is coming--these rules of conduct are very well in their way and might commend themselves to the denizens of Clapham; but, again, I hardly think Wagner would have constructed a great music-drama to enunciate them.

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I can't be making love when I'm on duty.

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At night come forth the inhabitants, like dor-beetles at sunset on the coast of Sussex; then is their season to walk and chat, and sing and make love, and run about the street with a girl and a guittar; to eat ice and drink lemonade; but never to be seen drunk or quarrelsome, or riotous.

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