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The plot turns upon the complications brought about the Mikado’s severe laws against flirting: “So he decreed in words succint, That all who flirted, leered or winked, Unless connubially linked, Should forthwith be beheaded.”

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Delicious hours of confidence, confab, and the exchanges of the connubially loquacious.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie