The 7,491 occurrences of make love

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it would require an Alexander or a Napoleon to make love to her."

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A woman couldn't, as Adelaide sometimes had occasion to say to herself, keep men from making love to her; she did not always want to.

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Love makes love, and indifference makes indifference."

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Then I shall sell some of my fowls, and with the money which they will bring in I will buy myself a new gown, which I shall wear when I go to the fair; and all the young fellows will admire it, and come and make love to me, but I shall toss my head and have nothing to say to them."

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Afore I come this trip on the Continong I used to think a Frenchman was good for nothing but fiddlin' an' dancin' an' makin' love.

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But you talk almost as if I had been making love to you."

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"No," said Douglas, forgetting his ceremonious manner and speaking angrily and naturally; "but you talk as though I had not been making love to _you_."

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And now you begin making love, and stuff of that kind.

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I dont care to make love a matter of money; it gives it a taste of the harem, or even worse.

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He was carrying my shawl at the time; and he wrapped it about my shoulders in the tenderest manner as he said this, and made love to me all the evening to console me.

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She is an incurable flirt; and she was quite sure that she had captivated Ned, who is always ready to make love to anyone that will listen to him."

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Of course, he sometimes becomes more familiar; only then he never seems in earnest, but makes love to me in a bantering, half playful, half sarcastic way."

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'For forty years,' he quavered, 'I made love to every pretty woman I met, in the search for happiness.

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Since Jagemann's death, Fernow has received an appointment at the library of the Duchess Dowager, and his connection with it is of great value for her house and for the society which assembles there; he makes love for Italian literature a living force and gives occasion for witty readings and conversations.

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It may make love last, but it can't make it begin.

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"And that such a thing should come to pass, as Ross Norval in love with his own wife, is beyond belief--after making love to everybody else's!"

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They had made love to her.

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Now Max Tack was no villain; but it never occurred to him that one might drive in the Bois with a girl and not make love to her.

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Mr. Banks, president of the Royal Astronomical Society of England, was horrified after he had made love to Queen Oberea of Papara in the absence of her husband to find her attendant was a cavalière servente.

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Choti avowed that he had to make love to his girl models to induce them to pose in the altogether, for money would not make them adopt the garb of Venus.

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You made love to her that summer at Croydon; you needn't deny it.

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Do not you presume to make love to my daughter before my eyes!"

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"When you forbade me to make love to her," he continued, unheeding, "I laughed at you."

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When, further, her detestable lover, seeking change and fearing the financial lash of his properly indignant parent, terminates the arrangement, even an observer of real life can guess that her return to her rightful lord and master must entail disagreeables; but only a reader well brazened in modern fiction could expect Don Juan promptly to make love to and marry the husband's sister without a word of apology to anyone.

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He makes love to Charlotte Goodchild, but supposing it to be true that she has lost her fortune, declares to her that he has just received letters "frae the dukes, the marquis, and a' the dignitaries of the family ... expressly prohibiting his contaminating the blood of M'Sarcasm wi' onything sprung from a hogshead or a coonting-house" (ii.

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This conceited fool was duped into believing a parcel of men-servants to be lords and dukes, and made love to a lady's maid, supposing her to be a countess.

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Donna Victoria, in order to keep a husband, disguised herself in man's apparel, assumed the name of Florio, and made love as a man to her husband's mistress.

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He makes love to lady Froth.--W.

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BROOK (_Master_), the name assumed by Ford when sir John Falstaff makes love to his wife.

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He helps himself freely to all his master's things, and makes love to all the pretty chambermaids he comes into contact with.--Colman and Garrick, _The Clandestine Marriage_ (1766).

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In order to induce his daughter to marry, he makes love to Marcella, a girl of sixteen.--Mrs. Cowley, _A Bold Stroke for a Husband_ (1782).

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_Careless (Ned)_, makes love to lady Pliant.--W.

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He gave the deeds of his wife's estate to donna Laura, a courtesan, and Victoria, in order to recover them, assumed the disguise of a man, took the name of Florio, and made love to her.

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(1) She slew Orion with one of her arrows, for daring to make love to her.

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Falling on one knee, he put both hands on his heart and rolled up his eyes, much after the manner of Bombastes Furioso making love to Distaffina.--E.

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On the other hand Brisk pretends to entertain friendship for Lord Froth but makes love to his wife; and Ned Careless pretends to respect and honor Lord Pliant, but bamboozles him in a similar way.--W.

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Behind them is the posadera, or landlady, serving her guests with chocolate, and the begging student of Salamanca, with his lexicon and cigar, making love to her.

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It seems one Tague [an Irishman], smitten with her charms and her property, made love to her and it was returned, and they live together as man and wife.

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"That's right," grumbled the other, "leave me here while you make love to the nicest girl in New York.

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And the most comic things of all are exactly the things that are most worth doing--such as making love.

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"I suppose he--made love to you, did he?"

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See to it that he is not compelled by Destiny to make love to you on the way!"

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Anxious to get all the advantages of Consuelo's friendship, and to be known as her betrothed, so that he could procure an engagement in the opera through her generous influence, he yet made love to another singer, a former favourite of Zustiniani's.

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Bernard, the mounted police are attacking us, and you are amusing yourself by making love while our throats are being cut.

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He eats and makes love noisily.

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_Frank Hamilton_, the magnanimous friend, facile politician and all-but hero, was the worst offender, not only making love to the _Marquis's_ unhandsome daughter in stately periods, and invariably addressing pretty _Sarah Owen_, who was much too good for his and the author's treatment of her, in the language of a Cabinet meeting (as popularly imagined), but being hardly able even to lose his temper decently in honest ejaculation.

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Yet it were modest, could it but be said, They strip the living, but these rob the dead; Dare with the mummies of the Muses play, And make love to them the Egyptian way; 30 Or, as a rhyming author would have said, Join the dead living to the living dead.

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I ask a man into the rose-garden to make love to me and he preaches to me instead--_preaches to me_!

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"Take my advice and let love-making alone, or if you must make love, do it as other gods do--my messenger.

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You make me believe you to be a fossilized pedant--a philosopher prematurely aged--willing to barter your hope of salvation for a draught of the Fountain of Youth--and I find you making love to my chaperon and most distinguished woman guest!

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"Markham was making love to me, that's all.

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_Do_ they make love to you, Philidor?"

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He must sing when we are gay, weep when we are sad, and make love to us while doing either.

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If you'd made love to me, I would have laughed at you.

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And to make love of such a warmness!

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"That savage most execrable, who was so unkind to madame and myself--but who made love so fiercely?

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She has only to remain seated instead of moving away; to listen with a smile instead of looking bored; to be at home instead of being out,--and she is making love to a man.

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I find it an impossible thing to imagine myself offering marriage--making love--to a girl such as those I meet in the big houses.'

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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 rather 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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He eats and makes love noisily.

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I once asked a clever literary friend of mine, whose husband is so satisfactory that it is quite a delightful shock to discover it, how far men ought to be encouraged to make love.

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Married men need all the encouragement they can get to keep them making love to their own wives.

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But from our standpoint, of being girls--and very nice girls too, some of us, if I do say it myself!--how far have we a right to encourage men to make love to us?

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I never could understand why a man who plays a good game of whist should not know how to make love.

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In short, my manner of playing whist is the way some men, most men, make love.

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Many men make love because the girl is convenient and they happen to think about it.

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But I have seen scores of them drop into vacant chairs at the girls' sides, and make love just because they were handy.

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We do not know why we do, but we do, and we cannot help it, and if you are going to make love according to Hoyle you must recognize this fact, and pamper us in our folly.

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You never are satisfied to do anything else in the slovenly way in which you make love.

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These girls are very clever sometimes--even these little, soft, kitteny girls, who do not know anything about books, who never read, who never study, and are popularly called empty-headed even by the very men who make love to them.

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Had the daughter not been so busy consoling her unhappy pet, the father's expression might have suggested to her that there was, not distant from her, a being who had feelings, not almost, but quite human, and who might afford an occupation for an occupation-hunting young woman which might make love and care for a monkey superfluous.

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It would be bad enough to have to go through the usual period of formal _fiançailles_ of the sort I have always been brought up to expect--but to endure being made love to by Augustus Gurrage!

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"In my day," Letitia said, "it sometimes happened that men made love and ran away with a woman because they found they liked her better than anything else in the world.

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I suppose he was beginning to make love to me--if this is what is called making love.

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I only longed to wrench my hair out of his hands, and to tell him that he might speak to and make love to whom he pleased so long as he left me alone and in peace.

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"I have been accustomed to be run after all my life," she continued, "so it does not amount to anything, a man making love to me.

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The Duke made love to you, I suppose?"

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"Well, did he make love to you?"

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"Why should you think any man would make love to me?

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He did make love to you, then?"

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He must make love to her again.

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And we succeeded very well, as indeed all young men do who waltz perfectly and avoid making love to the wrong woman.

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To represent in a novel a girl proposing marriage to a man would be deemed unnatural, but nothing is more common; there are few young men who have not received at least a dozen offers, nay, more; it is characteristic, it has become instinctive for girls to choose, and they prefer men not to make love to them; and every young man who knows his business avoids making advances, knowing well that it will only put the girl off.

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And he did not refrain from actually making love to Anna on the occasions when they were able to engage in tête-à-tête conversations.

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He was peculiarly sensitive to the claims of "Auld Lang Syne," and when a young man came up from Oxford or Cambridge to begin life in London, he was certain to find that Lord Houghton had travelled on the Continent with his father, or had danced with his mother, or had made love to his aunt, and was eagerly on the look-out for an opportunity of showing gracious and valuable kindness to the son of his ancient friends.

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Now he does choose, and I can tell you that he's not going to make love through a speaking-trumpet.

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How in the world had he ever dared make love to a person like Leonora Brunna?

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The remembrance of our former injustice to it may even awaken a certain tenderness towards it in our hearts, and soon we find ourselves making love to it, partly from a vague desire to make reparation to a slighted type, and partly from the experimental pleasure of loving a beauty the attraction of which it was once impossible for us to imagine.

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Hélène Procès, who was bold enough to lodge a complaint to one of their officers about a soldier who had tried to make love to her in the German way.

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Slavs with matted hair, American girls in Futurist frocks, Italians like figures out of pre- Raphaelite frescoes, men with monkey faces and monkey manners, men with the faces of mediaeval saints a little debauched by devilish temptations, filled the long bare room, spoke in strange tongues to each other, and made love passionately in the universal language and in dark corners provided with ragged divans.

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I knew she could not write to her husband: "Come and take me away, for Ploszowski is making love to me;" she would not have done so even if she hated me.

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When, after that dinner, General Miltiades Murger made love to Mrs. Dearman on the verandah, he also made an enemy, a bitter, cruel, and vindictive enemy of Mr. Ross-Ellison (or rather of Mir Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan).

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To make love to me!

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"Ulysses, make love to me.... You haven't yet told me this whole day long that you love me."

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Am I so innocent that Jack Hanover, and Charlie Rodgers, and Black Whitman, and as many more of their kind, can make love to you under my very nose without my knowing it?

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I'll send the genius his check--for making love--to my wife in the sacred name of art,--and I'll lie--about his picture with--the rest of you.

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CHAPTER III A BELLE OF METTLE "For let me tell you, gentlemen, courage is the whole mystery of making love, and of more use than conduct is in war; for the bravest fellow in Europe may beat his brains out against the stubborn walls of a town--but "Women born to be controll'd, Stoop to the forward and the bold."

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