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I hope you will have a fine hot summer and will think of me sometimes when you are spooning tremendously at croquet,—as you know you do, though it isn't fair.

From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

Auntie’s ill and in bed, Rosalind and Roger are spooning about in the grounds, Armstrong’s got the dismals, and the governor’s not to be disturbed.

From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Reed, Talbot Baines

Keeping me here all day, while you are spooning the pretty companion.

From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft

“She and her French colonel are spooning down there at Lighthouse Point,” scoffed Ruth—and not at all as Ruth Fielding was wont to speak.

From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Emerson, Alice B.