The 7,491 occurrences of make love

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These unpleasant people, the lawyers and the parsons, had contrived to make Love an impropriety and had reduced Holy Passion to the status of a schedule to an act of parliament.

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In _The Merchant of Venice_, Bassanio and Portia, Lorenzo and Jessica, Gratiano and Nerissa had all made love.

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Even young Gobbo, in a coarse, philandering way, had made love, too!

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and had taken her to a pleasant place and made love to her!

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"I may as well warn you that Dolly'll make love to you when she's recovered herself, but you needn't let it worry you.

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"Because I won't start making love to you, I suppose?"

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She had not attempted to make love to him again, and her attitude towards him became more natural, almost, he thought, more friendly.

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These unpleasant people, the lawyers and the parsons, had contrived to make Love an impropriety and had reduced Holy Passion to the status of a schedule to an act of parliament.

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He saw them conversing, quarrelling, making love; mothers were taking care of their children, combing their hair, nursing or "trotting" them; and the passions of all--jealousy, rage, love--were as strongly marked as in men.

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The French fops, here, all buzz and swarm around her; each making love to her, with all the shrugs, grimaces, and ready made raptures of which he is master; and to which I am obliged patiently to listen, or shew myself an ass.

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'Tis laughable to see with what industry they labour to make love according to her liking; for they find that their own trifling manner is inefficient, and can never succeed with her.

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"I mean those mythical, strange sort of devils who come to earth, you know, and--and--make love to ladies--a sort of Satan like in Marie Corelli's lovely book.

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"Either Gritzko has just been making love to the Englishwoman, or he is immensely bored--The latter from his face."

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If I wasn't so taken with that darling little Countess Olga I should feel inclined to make love to you myself."

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In five days she would be his wife, and then when he had paid the honorable price--how would he treat her?-- He was looking wildly attractive tonight, his voice had a thousand tones in it when he addressed the others, he was merry and witty and gay--and almost made love to the Princess--only to his fiancée did he seem reserved.

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That wretched man has been making love to you?"

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"Talking to you!" cried Austin; "you mean making love to you!

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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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His mother approves of the match, and sent him here to make love to me, which he has done, as you have seen.

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Produced by Stan Goodman and the Distributed Proofreaders QUAINT COURTSHIPS Harper's Novelettes EDITED BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND HENRY MILLS ALDEN 1906 MARGARET DELAND AN ENCORE NORMAN DUNCAN A ROMANCE OF WHOOPING HARBOR MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN HYACINTHUS SEWELL FORD JANE'S GRAY EYES HERMAN WHITAKER A STIFF CONDITION MAY HARRIS IN THE INTERESTS OF CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS WILLING WHARTON THE WRONG DOOR WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS BRAYBRIDGE'S OFFER ELIA W. PEATTIE THE RUBAIYAT AND THE LINER ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL THE MINISTER Introduction To the perverse all courtships probably are quaint; but if ever human nature may be allowed the full range of originality, it may very well be in the exciting and very personal moments of making love.

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But be this as it may, whether or no each made love to a voice, Cupid ran a swift course with them, steeplechasing over obstacles that would have taken years for a Zorra lad to plod around.

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It is the same at all times, whether it is moving with the scythe on the hill-slopes, or hewing the timber, or steering the raft down the river which is all effervescent with ice; whether it is drinking in the Gasthaus, or making love, or playing some mummer's part, or hating steadily and cruelly, or whether it is kneeling in spellbound subjection in the incense-filled church, or walking in the strange, dark, subject-procession to bless the fields, or cutting the young birch-trees for the feast of Frohenleichnam, it is always the same, the dark, powerful mystic, sensuous experience is the whole of him, he is mindless and bound within the absoluteness of the issue, the unchangeability of the great icy not-being which holds good for ever, and is supreme.

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It is that makes love.

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To his love he made Love's only worthy offering--purity.

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So, too, in regard to the story that he disguised himself as a bull, and in that eccentric costume made love to EUROPA.

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One can easily believe that he made love to DANAE by throwing a shower of gold in her lap--a story which shows that women were much the same in ancient times as they are to day.

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The "gentille Zephirine," otherwise the Countess Anna, was gay, charming, and beautifully dressed; and "Gringalet," the Count, was completely occupied--when not making love--with his collection of insects, on which he spent large sums.

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At first a good degree of vigilance was manifested; but, as days and weeks passed without any alarm, the inhabitants relapsed into their old habits; and some even began to believe that the rumored descent of the Indians was only a pretext for quartering upon them two-score of lazy, rollicking soldiers, who certainly seemed more expert in making love to their daughters, and drinking their best ale and cider, than in patrolling the woods or putting the garrisons into a defensible state.

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At first a good degree of vigilance was manifested; but, as days and weeks passed without any alarm, the inhabitants relapsed into their old habits; and some even began to believe that the rumored descent of the Indians was only a pretext for quartering upon them two-score of lazy, rollicking soldiers, who certainly seemed more expert in making love to their daughters, and drinking their best ale and cider, than in patrolling the woods or putting the garrisons into a defensible state.

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not though in haste before them I spread all my heart's best cheer, And made love my banner o'er them, If it might but keep them here; They stayed but a while to rest them; Long, long before its close, From my feast, though I mourned and prest them The radiant guests arose; And their flitting wings struck sadness And silence; never more Hath my soul won back the gladness, That was its own before.

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not though in haste before them I spread all my heart's best cheer, And made love my banner o'er them, If it might but keep them here; They stayed but a while to rest them; Long, long before its close, From my feast, though I mourned and prest them The radiant guests arose; And their flitting wings struck sadness And silence; never more Hath my soul won back the gladness, That was its own before.

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At first a good degree of vigilance was manifested; but, as days and weeks passed without any alarm, the inhabitants relapsed into their old habits; and some even began to believe that the rumored descent of the Indians was only a pretext for quartering upon them two-score of lazy, rollicking soldiers, who certainly seemed more expert in making love to their daughters, and drinking their best ale and cider, than in patrolling the woods or putting the garrisons into a defensible state.

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not though in haste before them I spread all my heart's best cheer, And made love my banner o'er them, If it might but keep them here; They stayed but a while to rest them; Long, long before its close, From my feast, though I mourned and prest them The radiant guests arose; And their flitting wings struck sadness And silence; never more Hath my soul won back the gladness, That was its own before.

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"Do you always get red in the face when you make love?

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I do know he made love to her a little later.

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After all," Stella summed it up, "our duties are very simple; first, we are expected to pass through a certain number of cotillions and a certain number of various happenings in various tête-à-têtes; then to make a suitable match,--so as to enable the agreeable detrimentals to make love to us, with perfect safety--as you were doing just now, for instance.

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Now it would be just an odd turn of language, or a description of some gesture she had made, or of a gown she had worn that day; and now a simile or some other rather good figure of speech which had popped into my mind when I was making love to her.

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She thought I would make love to her out of hand, I suppose, because she was wealthy--" I presently flung back my head and laughed.

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--and she remedied the fault on tiptoe,--"_please_ run away and make love to somebody else, and be sure to get her name right, so that I shan't assassinate the wrong person,--because I want to tell this very attractive child all about Avis, and not be bothered."

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"But, after all, John, you _did_ make love to her."

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Covent Garden was now the farthest stretch of my ambition; where I shone forth in the balconies at the playhouses, visited whores, made love to orange-wenches, and damned plays.

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I, perceiving she must fall to my lot, advanced presently to her, made love to her in our military way, and quickly succeeded to my wishes.

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They say he's making love to her.

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I have heard that all soldiers are very much given to make love, and we know from Shakespeare, that Othello, who was black too, you will remember, nephew, made love to Desdemona, which shows that color does not make so much difference as one would think.

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Now I do hope your man will not make love to Hannah, I don't think she would like it, my dear, and yet you know she might; one never knows what women will do; they are always making fools of themselves," she added angrily, thinking at the moment how a young girl she had trained up as a cook had, after being with her three years, left a few weeks before to marry the village blacksmith, "and I should be sorry to lose Hannah.

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So saying, Tom went upstairs, where he repeated to Peter, who was still awake, his conversation with his aunt, and the two went into shouts of laughter over the idea of Sam making love to the prim Hannah.

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It amused him to make love to her, and in spite of his parsonical cousin, he should continue to do so.

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The action you have taken to-day, your deliberate defiance of us all, make it necessary that I should speak in even plainer terms to you than I have done yet; that I should warn you as strongly as I can that by allowing this man to make love to you--perhaps to propose a runaway match to you--how do I know what villainy he may have been equal to?--you are running risks of utter disaster and disgrace."

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But to-night she asked herself with irritation--for what had he led her into his silly escapade, but to make love to her?

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Tell us what you have seen in this room--all the foolish people making love, and the sad people saying good-bye."

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"No--you prefer making love to Lady Maxwell!"

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"How like her!" she thought to herself, "to forget the wife's existence to begin with, and then to make love to her by way of warding off the husband!"

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The wooing winds made love full fast-- To rouse her up in vain they tried-- They kist and kist her, till, at last, In ecstasy they died.

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Enter ARNOLD-now a captain-who makes love to her.

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I suppose he made love to her, as all the young men she meets always do, sooner or later, but I have no fear of any rustic entanglements tor her; she has never been really interested, save in one affair.

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He was the first that more desired to have One than another; first that e'er did crave Love by mute signs, and had no power to speak; First that could make love-faces, or could do The vaulter's somersalts, or used to woo With hoiting gambols, his own bones to break, To make his mistress merry, or to wreak Her anger on himself.

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He was the first that more desired to have One than another; first that e'er did crave Love by mute signs, and had no power to speak; First that could make love-faces, or could do The vaulter's somersalts, or used to woo With hoiting gambols, his own bones to break, To make his mistress merry, or to wreak Her anger on himself.

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"People began to make love to me," she faltered, "and at first I did--like it.

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I suppose I've got to expect that men are going to _try_ to make love to you always--unless I lock you up where no one but me can see you, and that doesn't seem very practical in this day and generation!

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"I will, indeed--if you don't spend _all_ your time, as Sylvia fully intends you shall, making love to her.

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You won't marry me, and yet you are bound to have me make love to you all the time, when I'm doing my best to keep my hands off you--and I'd rather be shot _than_ marry you, on the terms you're putting up to me at present!

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That they should sneer at me for making love to a woman's purse would give me a nausea."

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"Indeed, sir, I did not know that you had made love to me."

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But perhaps I don't want to make love to your purse."

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Heaven knows how often I have made love; and this is the only woman I have ever really loved.

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Heaven knows how often I have made love; and this is the only woman I have ever really loved.

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It is not because we love too little, but because our love is worthy of each other, that we disdain to make love a curse!

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It is not because we love too little, but because our love is worthy of each other, that we disdain to make love a curse!

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The presence of Mayer, paying no more attention to her than he did to Aunt Ellen, and the memory of him making love to her on park benches, gave her a feeling of dishonesty that weighed like lead.

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"Make love to me--make me think you loved me.

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And where the melons grew, Streaked with yellow, green and blue, These jolly sprites went wandering Through spangled paths of dew; And the melons, here and there, They made love to, everywhere, Turning their pink souls to crimson With caresses fond and fair.

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Peter, for his part, was afraid lest d'Aguilar might make love to her while he was away.

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"He made love to me," gasped Betty; "and I love him.

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"Do you think that it can be any pleasure for me to seem to make love to a stone shaped like a man, for whom I care nothing at all--except as a friend?" she added quickly.

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It is told that thus one of them discovered his sultana making love to an astrologer, and drowned them both in the marble bath at the end of the garden.

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Then, after this was done, and she had thought awhile, Inez continued slowly, Margaret translating from Spanish into English whenever Betty could not understand: "Morella made love to you in England, Señora Betty--did he not?--and won your heart as he has won that of many another woman, so that you came to believe that he was carrying you off to marry you, and not your cousin?"

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I rode with him all the way to Seville, and he tried to make love to me, the slimy knave, but I paid him out," and Inez smiled at some pleasant recollection.

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She said that she had met him in London when she was a member of the household of the Señor Castell, and that at once he began to make love to her and won her heart.

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Continuing, he said that he admitted that he had made love to the serving-woman, Betty, in order to gain access to Margaret, whose father mistrusted him, knowing something of his mission.

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So after many adventures they came to Granada, where he was able to show the Dona Margaret that the Señor Peter Brome was employing his imprisonment in making love to that member of his household, Inez, who had been spoken of, but now could not be found.

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CURTAIN ACT II SCENE I A dirty, ill-lighted underground dive; people are lying around drinking, sleeping, playing cards and making love.

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When he was not with her, he devised schemes to remind her of him, making love to her by proxy in a dozen foolish, whimsical ways.

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Make love to me, Nance!"

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She only saw an awkward young workman in his shirt sleeves, with a smudge across his cheek and a wistful look in his eyes, who knew no more about making love than he knew about the other graces of life.

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Has he--has he made love to you, Nance?"

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"Why, he makes love to everybody.

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He makes love to his mother when he wants to get something out of her.

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They had been meeting in secret, going out alone together; she had let him make love to her, kiss her.

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I want to make love to you."

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Go and make love to her."

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Don't like the way I organize games; are mad because they can't have music at meals--which they can't because the band's all stewards; blame me because the men don't make love to them, or because they do.

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I was not offended by the proposal as Monny would have been--oh, not if she'd known it was _yours_, but if she'd supposed Antoun was making love to her.

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To abandon once and forever the duckling simile, the first thing I did on board the boat, after recovering from the excitement of seeing Mabel off by train with the Bronsons, was to wonder how I could make up for all this hideous waste of time when I might have been making love to Biddy.

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What Biddy had told me about Esmé was, that the girl had confessed, in a letter, having been made love to (during a summer holiday in the mountains with friends) by the son of a man her father had deeply injured.

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It is said, though perhaps not on the best authority, that when Pope once forgot himself so far as to make love to Lady Mary Wortley Montague, the lady's answer was "a fit of immoderate laughter."

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The allusion is probably to the way in which Lady Mary Wortley Montague allowed Pope to make love to her and then laughed at him.

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At any rate, he made love to me, not nearly so badly as you'd think, and persuaded me to promise to marry him."

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Lord Loudwater galloped half-way to the Castle in a furious haste to punish Olivia for allowing Grey to make love to her, and even more for the contemptuous way in which Grey had treated him.

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