What is "conjugal"

Usage examples of "conjugal".

During the whole of this melancholy transaction, it appears that Fausta sacrificed the sentiments of nature to her conjugal duties.

I enjoyed the shooting, the fishing and the wilds of the Cumbrian landscape, or if I was able to perform my conjugal duty with mutual and satisfactory regularity?

Not a conjugal carelessness: he had not talked with her so very often that all her riffs and vamps were second nature to him.

Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses: from his lips Not words alone pleased her.

Cooke saw to it that he had a punchbowl all to himself in which to drink our healths: Judge Short was there, still followed by the conjugal eye: and Senator Trevor, who remained over, in a new long black coat to kiss the bride.

At the end of one year Christine presented her husband with a living token of their mutual love, and that circumstance increased their conjugal felicity.

I was too curious to see the bride in her new relations, and to observe something of the conjugal administration of Lake, to allow anything seriously to stand in the way of my proposed trip.

Mr Verloc, in a soft and conjugal tone, was now expressing his firm belief that there were yet a good few years of quiet life before them both.

What then must I feel, who am connected with him by the strongest ties of love and conjugal affection?

I should find out for myself that there had been something deeper than a mere conjugal tiff between the Mandersons.

During the conjugal act, whatever the mother happened to look at or think about would affect the child.

Yet this all proceeded one may say from a passion, and a true conjugal fidelity, that it would be hard to find matched in this world.

He raises the highest Notion of Conjugal Tenderness from three of his Letters, is asham'd that he is oblig'd to have recourse to a Heathen Author on that Subject.

But the faithless Chozar was soon tempted by the gold of Constantinople: and had not the design been revealed by the conjugal love of Theodora, her husband must have been assassinated or betrayed into the power of his enemies.

But who doubts that the modern prohibition of the marriage even of cousins is the more seemly regulation-not merely on account of the reason we have been urging, the multiplying of relationships, so that one person might not absorb two, which might be distributed to two persons, and so increase the number of people bound together as a family, but also because there is in human nature I know not what natural and praiseworthy shamefacedness which restrains us from desiring that connection which, though for propagation, is yet lustful and which even conjugal modesty blushes over, with any one to whom consanguinity bids us render respect?