Example Sentences

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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

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

I regret that I find nothing in the biographies which would explain Tieck's exquisite amorousness toward the moon.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.

For Hunt’s undercurrent of friendship and cheerfulness were substituted Byron’s prevailing notes of amorousness and melancholy.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette

Of all those who in Rome had ridiculed and mocked at old Pasquale Capuzzi, with his sordid avarice, his foolish amorousness, his insane jealousy, who did not wish poor tormented Marianna her liberty?

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)