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Making love   /mˈeɪkɪŋ ləv/   Listen
Making love

noun
1.
Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people.  Synonyms: love, love life, lovemaking, sexual love.  "He hadn't had any love in months" , "He has a very complicated love life"






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"Making love" Quotes from Famous Books



... little greenish-gray monkeys of Tigre, enjoyed a treat to make the mouth of our young imagination water. He saw them conversing, quarrelling, making love; mothers were taking care of their children, combing their hair, nursing or "trotting" them; and the passions of all—jealousy, rage, love—were as strongly marked as in men. They had a language as distinct to them as ours to us; and their women were ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various

... half-breed, I heard," said Laurent. "His French father is quite an important fur trader, I learned. Yet the young fellow has been lounging round for the past three months, lying in the sun outside the stockade, flirting and making love alike to Indian and French maids, and haunting Jogue's place down on the river. Though, for that matter, it seems to be headquarters for fur traders. A handsome fellow, too. Why has he not the pride ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... have happened," she interrupted, with a shake of her head. "I can't afford to have you making love to her and getting tired of the game, as you always do, dear boy, just as soon as you find she's in love with you. She is too dear to be hurt ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon

... by bringing an admirer back to her feet. Fielding was furious at the suggestion, and indignantly repudiated it. She ignored the repudiation, and quietly insisted in pointing out the meanness of such a system of making love. The unfortunate gentleman's dignity constrained him to listen in silence, for he felt that he would have spluttered had he opened his lips. The only course open to him was a retreat with a high head, ...
— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason

... of the black aides—de—camp suddenly returned. It was the poor fellow who had been making love to Eugenie during the entertainment. He looked absolutely blue with dismay; his voice shook, and his knees knocked together as he ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott


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