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Example sentences for "amatory"

Lexicographically close words:
amateurs; amative; amativeness; amator; amatorious; amaurosis; amavit; amaze; amazed; amazedly
  1. To Chloris", by Chester Pierce Munroe, is a smooth and melodious amatory poem of the Kleiner school.

  2. Of the general phraseology and imagery we may only remark that Mr. Crowley has much to forget, as well as to learn, before he can compete with Mr. Kleiner or other high-grade amatory poets in the United.

  3. The Sunshine Girl" is an amatory panegyric of no small skill and polish, though not strikingly novel in sentiment or expression.

  4. As an amatory poet, Mr. Kleiner shows much delicacy of sentiment, refinement of language, and appreciation of metrical values; his efforts in this direction entitle him to a high place among amateur bards.

  5. Spring" reveals Rheinhart Kleiner in his favourite domain of amatory verse.

  6. Mrs. Winifred Virginia Jordan, without one of whose delightful verses no amateur publication can really compete, contributes a sparkling succession of amatory anapaests entitled "Dear.

  7. When I Gaze on Thee," by Kathleen Foster Smith, is an amatory poem of much grace and fluency.

  8. Some One I Know" is a lightly amatory piece of tuneful rhythm.

  9. Chester Pierce Munroe of North Carolina is a delicate amatory lyrist of the Kleiner type.

  10. His amatory elegiacs have an exuberance of colouring and sensuous force of phrase that seem peculiarly appropriate to the Bay of Naples, where they were inspired.

  11. When she gave herself to Michael Marullus Tarcagnota, a Greek, his anger knew no bounds; instead of penning amatory he now composed satiric epigrams, abusing Marullus in Latin no less than he had praised Alessandra in Greek.

  12. The individuality of the amatory passion is absolutely denied by science; and what is true of love at first sight is also true of hate: both are superindividual.

  13. I have not yet been able to assure myself that his weird interpretation of the amatory mystery is any less worthy of consideration than our Western interpretations.

  14. It was the amatory farewell address of Henri IV.

  15. It is manner, and not words, that achieves social and amatory conquests.

  16. In reading the Memoirs of Mademoiselle, one forgets all the absurdity of all her long amatory angling for the handsome young guardsman, in pity for her deep despair.

  17. But Jerry's amatory ventures are none of your business, Pope," he went on.

  18. Or had the point been reached in their amatory relations where she was quite indifferent as to what Jerry might do?

  19. A portrait was bad enough without the added embarrassment of an amatory artist.

  20. About five o'clock, Charles Wilkinson called, as he often did, through inclinations in which the gastronomic and the amatory were about evenly divided.

  21. The writer, like many a lad of 1602, has steeped himself in the amatory fable and fancy of Marlowe, Chapman, and Shakespeare; and the passionate imaginings are such as characterize poetic lads of seventeen in any period.

  22. However, she had, no doubt, considered that it would be all to her advantage that I should be left perfectly quiet to recruit my system, after the heavy drain on my amatory resources which she had kept up for the previous fortnight.

  23. Here was my fiery Miss Frankland, who had had considerable experience in the amatory world, pluming herself upon instructing an innocent youth in all the mysteries of the passions for the first time.

  24. We had but a moment to ourselves, and could not use it for amatory purposes but as we both had much to relate we agreed to meet at our house in Percy Street the next day.

  25. By this time it was broad daylight, and too late in the morning to enter into any conversation on the new partner in our amatory combats, which was reserved for the next meeting.

  26. I owe every amatory success of my after-life to the admirable teachings of these two charming and estimable women.

  27. The following night we passed again in all the amatory delights we could imagine.

  28. But we catch a very different amatory note, and that of the most personal and earnest kind, when the voice of Burns, and then the voice of Byron, were heard in English poetry.

  29. Have you ever written on amatory subjects?

  30. The "Several Occasions" calling forth her verse are chiefly amatory or friendly.

  31. Her learning, her devotion to literary pursuits, her fecundity in verse, her opposition to amatory themes, her detestation of the modern stage, are all characteristics that tally with the burlesque portrait.

  32. Abul-Atahya wrote many verses on ascetic subjects, and all his amatory pieces were composed in honour and praise of Otba, a female slave belonging to the Khalif Al-Mahdi, and to whom he appears to have been devotedly attached.

  33. In the child, the moods of the amatory sentiment are exceedingly variable.

  34. According to Sanford Bell, unfavourable consequences to intellectual development cannot, as a general rule, be attributed to the early amatory inclinations of childhood.

  35. On the whole, however, the amatory manifestations of childhood are of brief duration.

  36. The Venus Urania of Ramdohr, for instance, a work on the psychology of love, emphasises the frequency of amatory sentiments in children.

  37. In such cases, the results of early amatory inclinations may even be good.

  38. Philetas was not only a profound logician, but he affected to be an amatory poet.

  39. Partly after the example of Propertius, partly by his own predilection, he kept to the elegiac metre, though he is conscious of its betraying him into occasional frivolous or amatory passages where he ought to be grave.

  40. But to consider him merely in the light of an amatory poet would be wrong.

  41. Let the shade of blind Homer be called up to say whether the bard who composed the tremendous line— “Surgit ad hos clypei dominus septemplicis Ajax”— equal to any save one of his own, was a mere amatory songster.

  42. The Roman was not merely an amatory poet: let the shade of Pythagoras say whether the poet who embodied in immortal verse the oldest, the most wonderful and at the same time the most humane of all philosophy was a mere amatory poet.

  43. But for that time they were peculiarly suited (and especially Longus) by their combination of romantic and adventurous description with graceful pictures of nature and amatory interludes.

  44. But many of his other pieces show real feeling, and have a certain youthfulness about them which suits well with the sentiments they express, and the ardour of literary as well as amatory devotion which the poet endeavours to convey.

  45. When in the South of France and Sicily literature began to dawn, it is not to be overlooked how much of it was of an amatory kind; and love is the strongest of the passions.

  46. A love of amatory poetry had spread from the South of France.

  47. Venus was worshipped at Milētus, and hence the loose amatory tales of Antonius Diogenês were entitled Milesiæ Fabulæ.

  48. Besides this metrical proficiency and gift, Wither at this time (he thought fit to apologise for it later) had a very happy knack of blending the warm amatory enthusiasm of his time with sentiments of virtue and decency.

  49. Herrick and Carew are only sorry that the amatory fashion of this world passeth; they do not in the least undervalue it while it lasts, or sneer at it when it is gone.

  50. And at Ægium, a goose took a fancy to a boy; as Clearchus relates in the first book of his 'Amatory Anecdotes.

  51. There are no poems on wine equal to my own, and to my amatory compositions all others must yield," he himself has said.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amatory; amorous; ardent; coquettish; desirous; erotic; flirtatious; impassioned; lascivious; loving; passionate; sexual; tender