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Usage examples of ecstasy.

Much useful comparative information was obtained during the following minute of suspended ecstasy, during which the female tongues parted into thousands of fine tentacles, exploring every accessible cavity of the male bodies.

Donna Ignazia was in such a state of ecstasy that I felt her trembling, and augured well for my amorous projects.

There was some ground to hope in the first six months of the marriage, but since he has had the gout so badly there seems reason to fear lest his amorous ecstasies should have a fatal termination.

While Angekok had often slept, exhausted from his satanic ecstasies, I had explored this cavern and now it was my fervent hope that an underground stream might bear me from this fate.

Caepio Junior would have been appalled if she had moaned in ecstasy or thrown herself around in the bed as if she enjoyed herself in the manner of a mistress.

Anand, Margo,The Art of Sexual Ecstasy , Aquarian Press, London, 1990.

Germany was in ecstasies after the battle of Aspern, but she bowed her head mournfully after that of Wagram.

In fact, recently in Holland four brands of Ecstasy were found to contain atropine, for that reason exactly.

When Minstrels gave concerts, the beings massed outside were treated to an aural ecstasy unparalleled in power and beauty.

She threw her head back, letting out small gasps of ecstasy as his tongue danced around her aureola, teasing her to the brink of madness.

With mouths glued to each other they plunged, curvetted, wriggled, squirmed, till the blissful ecstasy overtook them both simultaneously, when madly they bedewed each other with their love-juice to the accompaniment of the most exquisite quiverings and thrillings, utterly absorbed in rapture!

In an ecstasy of joy she began to embrace me again, and Eleanore said that she would go to sleep so as to be more on the alert for the morrow.

Veronique behaved exactly as if the marquis had guessed the truth, and I felt sure of having her after supper, and in the ecstasy of the thought I promised to stay for four days longer.

If Boykin truly loved the humiliation of submitting to a powerful woman, he was probably in ecstasy.

If I told all I should wound chaste ears, and, besides, all the colours of the painter and all the phrases of the poet could not do justice to the delirium of pleasure, the ecstasy, and the license which passed during that night, while two wax lights burnt dimly on the table like candles before the shrine of a saint.