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swain
1. Besides having six inches on the Sicilian stature of her would-be swain, Lori had six years on him as well
2. My swain with pride pinned the corsage
3. In life he was a shepherd swain,
4. There was Jessop, at the art school; Swain, who was chemistry demonstrator at the university; Newton, who was a teacher; besides Edgar and Miriam's younger brothers
5. He called in the university for Swain, and the two went "down town" together
6. Beneficent Disseminator of blessings to all Thy creatures, how great and universal must be that sweetest of Thy tyrannies which can hold in thrall the free and the bond, the simple swain and the polished coxcomb, the lover in the heyday of reckless passion and the husband of maturer years
7. Ramirez, the honest, lovelorn swain, is forbidden the island
8. “Lancelot,” said I, now much embolden’d by the Pow’r of Injur’d Vanity coupl’d with the mischievous Abandon a Woman feels when she knows she must play the Seducer to an Unwilling Swain: “Lancelot, pray help me to undress for Bed
9. O I had heard tell of Colley Cibber, the Comedian, and his Whoremaster Son, Theophilus (who was then beginning his notorious Career as a Player at the Drury Lane), but little did I expect that such a noted Buffoon would be my first Swain at Mother Coxtart’s Brothel! E’en in Wiltshire, ’twas known that the young Cibber suffer’d mightily from his Father’s Notoriety, his Whoring, Gaming, and Debauchery—and sought to outdo his ev’ry Excess
10. “At Times,” said he, “you are a Country Maid, at Times a Queen, but with your flaming Hair and flaming Nether Hair as well, I think of you more as a raging Fire than a mere Woman, a Conflagration that might consume all of London and me as well!” With that, he threw himself upon me, dropp’d his Quill and Paper and his Breech; and made love to me as vigorously as any Swain had done
11. Now this Sort of Love-making nearly always undoes me—no matter how loathsome the Swain who performs it (for I can close my Eyes and forget his Person), but the Licking and Teazing was so sweet withal that I near fainted away with Rapture
12. Thus, when I swore upon a Pile of Bibles that the Babe was his, both his Ignorance of Female Things, and his native Masculine Vanity led him to grant me Credence (with only the smallest Amount of Jesting about his Fears that perhaps some other Swain had got me with Child afore him)
13. At Sixteen, she nearly kill’d a Young Swain who’d foolishly thought to take advantage of her
14. From off the head of this Athenian swain,
15. To her he had become again the boy-comrade of Avonlea days, and as such could hold his own against any smitten swain who had so far entered the lists against him
16. Just so! that modest swain is blest
17. Nobody will marry her, and suddenly you, a rich and eminent man of rank and title, appear on the scene as her accepted swain
18. How on the instant that dear image led my imagination captive! I seemed to see once more the meadow before our house, the tall lime-trees in the garden, the clear pond where the ducks swain, the blue sky dappled with white clouds, the sweet-smelling ricks of hay
19. To be no better than a homely swain
