amorous play
Example Sentences
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How dry it was on a far-back day When straws hung the hedge and around, When amid the sheaves in amorous play In curtained bonnets and light array Bloomed a bevy now underground!
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas
Now list to me, Sir Thunye the knight, Give up, I beg, this amorous play; I have already a bridegroom bold, The King whom all the dwarfs obey.
From Ermeline a ballad by Borrow, George Henry
