Vulgar words in Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works (Page 1)
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That age was older once than now, In spite of locks untimely shed, Or silvered on the youthful brow; That babes make love and children wed. That sunshine had a heavenly glow, Which faded with those "good old days," When winters came with deeper snow, And autumns with a softer haze.
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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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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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He remembered how he had floored Master Weeks, and he had just "spunk" enough left in him to try to repeat his former successful experiment an the new master.
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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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Damn the shoulder!--let me go!
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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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As I was listening to the merriment of the sooty buffoons, I happened to cast my eyes up to the ceiling, and through an open semicircular window a bright solitary star looked me calmly in the eyes.
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What a pity that Zekle, who courted Huldy over the apples she was peeling, could not have made love as the bucolic youth does, when "Every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale!"