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Ne'er a Ha'p'orth o' Plashtic nor Animal Fat Betwixt Them
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Gen 23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead
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11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you
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15 My lord, listen to me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and you? Bury therefore your dead
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36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks
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37 Whereas you have searched all my stuff, what hast you found of all your household stuff? set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both
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of the covenant betwixt me and you
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silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead
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have cast betwixt me and thee;
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Notions of Things, makes the difference betwixt a King and a Tyrant to consist only in this, that one makes the Laws the Bounds of his Power, and the Good of the Publick, the end of his Government; the other makes all give way to his own Will and Appetite
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For the end of conjunction between Male and Female, being not only procreation, but the continuation of their Species, this conjunction betwixt Male and Female ought to last, even after Procreation, so long as is necessary to the nourishment and support of the young Ones, who are to be sustained by those that got them, till they are able to shift and provide for themselves
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I held my head betwixt my hands and willed my mind to clearly see
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It stood betwixt my loved Ones whilst I wondered at what part of me had wandered from my causal form
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Herein this place of timelessness, where thought is pliable as clay, I had the opportunity to choose betwixt realities
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And herein seethes the paradox that draws the thickest line of all betwixt what some perceive as real, dismissed by others as unreal:
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But not as single or grouped words; whole concepts thought and feelings felt exchanged betwixt the four of Us attending the experience
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where roils the quintessential diff’rences betwixt how time is fair perceived on Mother Earth and in Folk Space
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As such there is this mystery: all time betwixt events can be foreshortened at will easily, as long as first it has transpired
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This is to say I seemed somewhere betwixt events when I had gasped and just before I would reply to Blieshen’s question asked of Me
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“I loosely tailed both Gerard Lipinski and Harry Dubs around town---going to-and-fro, hither and yon and betwixt and between for our cause
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6 As Jesus arose with his friends to leave, he turned to Simon and said: "I know your heart, Simon, how you are torn betwixt faith and doubts, how you are distraught by fear and troubled by pride; but I pray for you that you may yield to the light and may experience in your station in life just such mighty transformations of mind and spirit as may be comparable to the tremendous changes which the gospel of the kingdom has already wrought in the heart of your unbidden and unwelcome guest
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It is a wise saying of old William Bridge, "There is nothing small betwixt us and God, for God is an infinite God
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Betwixt his fingers was two halves of the arrow
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the pull of magic betwixt you and Ant
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But amidst the crudely drawn penises and vaginas, betwixt the misspelled pronouncements of love in the name of coitus, there were more interesting dashings
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For if I live in the flesh this is the fruit of my labor; yet what I shall choose I know not; for I am in a strait betwixt the two, having a desire for the returning at some future time, after a period of nothingness, and so being with Christ, which is far better
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Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush, Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot,
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A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,
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struggle of the passions, however, this conflict betwixt modesty and
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"You know, Pip," replied Joe, "as you and me were ever friends, and it were looked for'ard to betwixt us, as being calc'lated to lead to larks
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What could the wretched Joe do now, after his disregarded parenthetical interruptions, but stand up to his journeyman, and ask him what he meant by interfering betwixt himself and Mrs
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Though I put it to yourself, sir, whether it were calc'lated to keep a man up to his work with a good hart, to be continiwally cutting in betwixt him and the Ghost with "Amen!" A man may have had a misfortun' and been in the Church," said Joe, lowering his voice to an argumentative and feeling tone, "but that is no reason why you should put him out at such a time
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such clubs and societies, and nowt to his disadvantage? And warn't it me as had been tried afore, and as had been know'd up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups! And when it come to speech-making, warn't it Compeyson as could speak to 'em wi' his face dropping every now and then into his white pockethandkercher,—ah! and wi' verses in his speech, too,—and warn't it me as could only say, 'Gentlemen, this man at my side is a most precious rascal'? And when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company, and giving up all the information he could agen me, and warn't it me as got never a word but Guilty? And when I says to Compeyson, 'Once out of this court, I'll smash that face of yourn!' ain't it Compeyson as prays the Judge to be protected, and gets two turnkeys stood betwixt us? And when we're sentenced, ain't it him as gets seven year, and me fourteen, and ain't it him as the Judge is sorry for, because he might a done so well, and ain't it me as the Judge perceives to be a old offender of wiolent passion, likely to come to worse?"
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Then why go into subjects, old chap, which as betwixt two sech must be for ever onnecessary? There's subjects enough as betwixt two sech, without onnecessary ones
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Theerfore, think no more of it as betwixt two sech, and do not let us pass remarks upon onnecessary subjects
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You mustn't go a overdoing on it, but you must have your supper and your wine and water, and you must be put betwixt the sheets
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So I dropped on my hands and knees in the little passage, and crept aft in the dark till there warn't but one stateroom betwixt me and the cross-hall of the texas
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It was a double house, and the big open place betwixt them was roofed and floored, and sometimes the table was set there in the middle of the day, and it was a cool, comfortable place
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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it
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We had dinner out in that broad open passage betwixt the house and the kitchen; and there was things enough on that table for seven families—and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that's laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning
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Betwixt the hut and the fence, on the back side, was a lean-to that joined the hut at the eaves, and was made out of plank
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The old minister seated himself in an arm-chair, and made an effort to draw Pearl betwixt his knees
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But here—if we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic, and not a parable—was already an illustration of the young minister's argument against sundering the relation of a fallen mother to the offspring of her frailty
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But—it must now be said—another portion of the community had latterly begun to take its own view of the relation betwixt Mr
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A strange sympathy betwixt soul and body! Were it only for the art's sake, I must search this matter to the bottom!”
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By its aid, in all the subsequent relations betwixt him and Mr
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The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely defined figure aloft on the place of shame; and, half crazed betwixt alarm and curiosity, would go, knocking from door to door, summoning all the people to behold the ghost—as he needs must think it—of some defunct transgressor
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“When we last spake together,” said Hester, “now seven years ago, it was your pleasure to extort a promise of secrecy, as touching the former relation betwixt yourself and me
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RTHUR Dimmesdale gazed into Hester's face with a look in which hope and joy shone out, indeed, but with fear betwixt them, and a kind of horror at her boldness, who had spoken what he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak
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How deeply had they known each other then! And was this the man? She hardly knew him now! He, moving proudly past, enveloped, as it were, in the rich music, with the procession of majestic and venerable fathers; he, so unattainable in his worldly position, and still more so in that far vista of his unsympathizing thoughts, through which she now beheld him! Her spirit sank with the idea that all must have been a delusion, and that, vividly as she had dreamed it, there could be no real bond betwixt the clergyman and herself
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of a fierce flame which issued out and came from before him, a convenient distance betwixt him and them, as betwixt the judge and the prisoners at the bar
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heat that was kindled betwixt Mr
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wonder that I am not now as Lot's wife; for wherein was the difference betwixt her sin and mine? She only looked back; and I had a desire to go see
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Esau did sell his birthright indeed, and so do many besides, and by so doing exclude themselves from the chief blessing, as also that caitiff did; but you must put a difference betwixt Esau and Little-faith, and also betwixt their estates
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Why, I did but compare thee to some of the birds that are of the brisker sort, who will run to and fro in untrodden paths, with the shell upon their heads; but pass by that, and consider the matter under debate, and all shall be well betwixt thee and me
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But, I trow, you will put some difference betwixt Little-faith and the King's champion
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1:5] "He is mediator betwixt God and us
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{389} Now, I further saw, that betwixt them and the gate
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Condemned then to stay till his departure should release me, I was greatly embarrassed how to dispose of myself: I kept some time betwixt terror and modesty, even from looking through the window, which being an old fashioned casement, without any light behind me, could hardly betray any one's being there to him from within; then the door was so secure, that
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At the same time he made me feel his own engine, which was so well wound up, as to stand even the working in water, and he accordingly threw one arm round my neck, and was endeavouring to get the better of that harsher construction bred by the surrounding fluid; and had in effect one hiway so far as to make me sensible of the pleasing stretch of those nether lips, from the in-driving machine; when, independent of my not liking that awkward mode of enjoyment, I could not help interrupting him, in order to become joint spectators of a plan of joy, in hot operation between Emily and her partner; who impatient of the fooleriesand dalliance of the bath, had led his nymph to one of the benches on the green bank, where he was very cordially proceeding to teach her the difference betwixt jest and earnest
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More to the point, though, happen that however many rifles he might get by then, betwixt the Army of the Daivyn, Earl High Mount’s Army of Cliff Peak, and the Army of the Branaths, we’ll have three times his present manpower—maybe more, if the Lord Protector’s able to send up as many divisions as Lord Daryus hopes he’ll be
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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure—all the more intense for being held tightly in—his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours
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He neigh’d in sympathy; sure there was a more than verbal Bond betwixt us
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Suddenly, as I was musing on these very melancholy Things, my Eyes, those bright Orbs that had so lately been feasting upon the Beauties of the Countryside, began to o’erflow with Tears, which in turn drew a watery transparent Curtain betwixt myself and the World, making the entire Landscape resemble some underwater Faery Grotto
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There was Art in her Prancing, after all—tho’ perhaps a low sort of Art compared to the Noble Tragedy or the lofty Epick; and there was something in her Visage that seem’d to say we were all Rope Dancers of a sort, prancing a little Time betwixt the Cradle and the Bier, only to fall, at the End, into the Grave
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’Twas almost droll how they argu’d betwixt themselves
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I had not seen the like of it since I had witness’d an Argument betwixt Mrs
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Whereupon Joan put a Broomstaff betwixt her Legs and said:
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“Thus is our Soft-heartedness rewarded!” Sister Alice scream’d, accusing the Grandmaster, who huddl’d in her Nakedness betwixt Alice and Joan
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Containing sev’ral Dialogues concerning Fate, Poesy, and the Relations betwixt the Sexes, as well as other Intercourse of a more sensual Nature (because of which the Modest Reader is advis’d to pass o’er this Chapter unread), which our Heroine had with Miss Polly Mudge, Chambermaid, Mr
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All the Love betwixt us two…
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I should call it The Lockiad, and in it I should expose the Folly of the Age, the Folly of Mankind, the Need for Great Change in Human Society, and I should call for Equality betwixt the Sexes
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She leant o’er me to pierce the juicy Flesh of the Capon; and, unable to contain myself any longer, I clapp’d my Mouth to the tender Valley betwixt the white Mountains of her Breasts and there insinuated my darting Tongue
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Polly giggl’d prettily at this Instance of Tunewell’s Wit; and Ned Tunewell, for his part, took her Laughter as another Sign to dive, Cock-first, betwixt her Thighs
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For many Years I felt grievous Self-Contempt for what I did in that shaky Tent-Bed with those two amiable Strangers; but now, with the Perspective of Years behind me, I see ’twas doubtless simple Grief that drove me betwixt the luscious Legs of Miss Polly
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I’faith, I believe, ’twas my Illness which just began to melt him towards me, for he show’d an Apprehension that I might be carried off by it, and not only did he nurse me with his own Hand, but he sat by my Bedside, speaking to me betwixt Fits of Fever that whole first Night
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“Ye lye betwixt yer Teeth
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Then some of the Sea-Artists would drive Wedges betwixt the Enemy’s Rudder and Sternpost, jamming it and making Escape impossible
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Again he drew his Hand away, but methinks he linger’d a Moment first, savouring the Heat betwixt those twin Globes
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” Nonetheless, I grabb’d his Hand again and drew it from my Knee upward along my Thigh, ling’ring betwixt my Legs, upward o’er my Belly to my Breasts, where now I tarried, asking that he taste what he had lately touch’d
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Before my very Eyes I see Lancelot grind his Hips against Horatio’s Hips, and Horatio at first resist, then succumb, and Lancelot undo his Breeches and stuff his flaming Member betwixt Horatio’s Lips, and Horatio at first unwilling, grow more willing, swallowing the redden’d Member as if indeed he quite savour’d it, and then the Thrust and Parry as in a Duel, the Sighs, the Grunts, the Murmurs of “I dye,” and Lancelot, like a great Fountain in some engraving of the Gardens of Versailles, shooting a Stream of white Foam high into the Air (his Cock having come unloos’d from Horatio’s Lips) and then expiring upon the Floor in Weariness whilst Horatio strok’d his Back more in Love than in Fury
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As we came closer and closer to the Great City of London, my Heart beat faster and faster; and, in truth, ’twas easy enough to tell we were approaching the Metropolis, for the Thames became a Sea of Masts, and the whole Surface of the River was cover’d with Barges, Wherries, Boats of divers Sizes, with grizzly old Tritons rowing, and shouts of “Next Oars!” and “Skullers!” echoing in our Ears, and such a Volley of Bad Language from the Boatmen that ’twas amazing my Ears did not turn red for Shame owing to the Indignities that enter’d there! Whoe’er would ride in a hir’d Barge had no Choyce but to submit to the Language of the Rogues who rul’d the River, and I o’erheard many Arguments about Rates betwixt the Watermen and their “Bargees”—and not once but sev’ral Times did my Ears hear a Waterman shout, “Ye niggardly Sons of Bitches!” as he attempted to o’erturn his Customers into the Water because they refus’d sufficiently to grease his Palm
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At the same Time, the three Graces (for so I had begun to think of ’em), paid particular Homage to my Thighs and Belly, and, of course, the chief Attraction which lay betwixt ’em
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Betwixt my Worries that I might be with Child and my Worries about what had become of Lancelot, not to mention my Worries about what Plans Mother Coxtart had in store for me, I was quite untranquil
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Of the many Times my Maidenhead was taken, the Great Figures of the Day who enter’d the Brothel (only to enter my Bow’r of Bliss), and of their curious Predilections and Practices betwixt the Bed-Clothes, I shall have to tell in a separate Chapter
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The fierce Mongols and the ferocious Tartars drank of Kumiss, or fermented Mare’s Milk, to raise Visions in their Brains; and the Celts perform’d a sacred Wedding betwixt Mare and King to ensure Fertility of Crops and Men
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Indeed, ’twas a pasty white Thing, as pale as uncookt Pye Dough, and it took all my Coaxing and Reassurance to make it stand up in my Hand—and e’en then I fear’d it should faint again upon the Instant! But I roll’d it in my Hands and then betwixt my Lips until ’twas hard enough to suck upon, and when ’twas slick with Spittle and firm enough for Use, I lifted my Bride’s Finery and sat upon his Cock, teazing and turning in corkscrew Motions until he swoon’d with Pleasure and, i’faith, quite fainted away
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Whereupon I thrust my Knee betwixt his Thighs and like a hopeless Maid he cries in the highest Voice: “Please, Sir, I have no Jewel but my Vartue, and if you strip me of it, I am lost
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Neither proper Man, nor proper Woman was he, but an odd Blend of the twain, a curious Person who seem’d torn betwixt East and West, betwixt Male and Female
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If Men had to bear the Babes, I thought, the entire Race would perish! For what Man would risque his Life for a mere Babe? E’en he, who would so readily risque it disputing some foolish Point of Honour in a Duel with another Man, would balk at the very Thought of enduring Pain or Death for a helpless Lump of shiv’ring pink Flesh that can neither walk nor talk to pay him Homage! For the Curse of the Male Sex is its constant Need of Homage—Homage to its Intellect and Wit, Homage to its Gallantry and petty Prowess betwixt the Bed-Clothes; whilst the Female Sex, said to be so vain, is vain only of mere superficial Beauty
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I was still so shaken by the unexpected Presence of Lord Bellars at this Revel that I was almost unaware of the Chatter of the Ladies, but by and by my Ears became attun’d to a Conversation betwixt two Nuns which had the Pow’r to penetrate my Trance
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He clasp’d me firmly about the Waist, pusht me into a Niche despite my Cries, whereupon he fell to his Knees, imprison’d my Legs with his strong Arms, duckt his Head under my Habit, and began to feast upon that Jam-Pott which Nature, in her curious Wisdom, hath placed betwixt the Thighs of the Fair Sex
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“Fannikins, my Love,” says Horatio, “can you not know that Lancelot adores you? He struggles in his Heart betwixt the Love of Men and the Love of you, but sure he loves Men with nought but Lust, yet you have all his Heart
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O Lancelot was right: there was too little Equality betwixt the Debtor and the Lord, the Woman and the Man, the Black and the White
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My Voice I attempted to Disguise e’en in Fits of Passion, but e’en had I fail’d to do so, I believe that he would scarce have made the Connexion betwixt the innocent Wench he seduced at Lymeworth and the experienced Whore who entertain’d him in London
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“Sir,” said I, betwixt the Pains, “’twas about Eight o’ the Clock when the Pains began—but I know not what Time it might be now
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Yet the Mercy had, i’faith, been granted; for this Division betwixt Ghost and Flesh was Mercy’s very Self
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All these most strange Events occurr’d betwixt Sleep and Waking under the puissant Influence of Laudanum, in that curious Twilight State that follows upon Childbirth
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Sometimes, whilst in the Valley, we rode betwixt two mountainous Waves which threaten’d to break above our Heads and sweep us away to a watery Grave without a Moment’s Hesitation
