amorousness

Example Sentences

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What the gods give they possibly conceal, for the average reader will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character.

From Time Magazine Archive

He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children."

From Time Magazine Archive

Accordingly Lauretta led a dance, while Emilia with passion sang the following song: So fain I am of my own loveliness,     I hope, nor think not e'er   The weight to feel of other amorousness.

From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

The life of our wealthy people, with their amorousness and dissatisfaction with their lives, seemed to him full of inexhaustible subject-matter.

From The Precipice by Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich

But there were horrors, too; notably the senile amorousness of Zakkuri and the offensive little figure of It, his shadow—an interpolation in the bill of fare.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir