What is "love-making"

Usage examples of "love-making".

Those who were blessed with handsome wives had the pleasure of seeing their houses very much frequented by admirers who aspired to win the favours of the ladies, but there was not much heroic love-making, perhaps for the reason that there were then in Corfu many Aspasias whose favours could be had for money.

Naturally after a decent interval the child gave in and soon found herself assisting big Hugh in his blundersome love-making.

Grundyism, less Comstockery, and, at the same time, less dirty Don-Juanism, less of that curiously malignant and vengeful love-making so characteristic of the debauchee under a Christian dispensation.

This Miss Dunstable, in their mutual confidences, had so often ridiculed the love-making grimaces of her mercenary suitors--had spoken so fiercely against those who had persecuted her, not because they had desired her money, but on account of their ill-judgement in thinking her to be a fool--that Mrs Smith had a right to expect that the method she had adopted for opening the negotiation would be taken in a better spirit.

Those who were blessed with handsome wives had the pleasure of seeing their houses very much frequented by admirers who aspired to win the favours of the ladies, but there was not much heroic love-making, perhaps for the reason that there were then in Corfu many Aspasias whose favours could be had for money.

They condemned as vicious gossip the theory that a love-making scene between Grundle and the girl on the edge of the old rock quarry had resulted in the murder.

Quite as much as the dance of the Maenads or the frenzy of the Corybantes, love-making carries us into a different world, where at other times we are forbidden to enter, and where we cease to belong as soon as the ardor is spent, or the ecstasy subsides.

I am known to all the nobility, and the Duke of Rosebury, who wearied me with his love-making, is still there.

With a beard of eight months' growth, and a dress made for love-making in August, I must have presented a somewhat curious appearance.

I told myself that from seeing her without any love-making my sentiment for her would die a natural death.

While she keeps him back from the hunt with her attempted love-making, his stallion spies a mare and breaks loose.

A little love-making would have improved my spirits no end and taken away the nasty taste of Doctor Volospion's tantrum.

Last evening's rage had evaporated in the unanticipated bout of love-making in the middle of the night, when Jake had slept off his first exhaustion.