love-play

Her household culture revolved around her and her tastes and, like the court of Urbino in The Courtier, engaged in the courtly pastimes of intellectualized love-play, witty conversation, and scholarship along with less exalted but common pastimes such as gambling.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Gabriel had been an imaginative and adventurous lover, who enjoyed drawn-out, sensually erotic love-play.

Master of Pleasure Jordan, Penny 2006

Towards the end they'd gotten better at it; she had at least as much pleasure out of love-play as he did.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

There were newer scars across his chest and back where her nails had scored him in their love-play; whether these were marks of honor or not none could say.

Dwellers in the Crucible Margaret Wander Bonanno 1990

They spoke little in the day and so saved their breath for the wild love-play of the night.

The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

They spoke little in the day and so saved their breath for the wild love-play of the night.

The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

As an example of the way painters and poets have not been "spared by the author's acid nib," he says: "Matisse is surprised in a moment of senile love-play."

Life with Picasso Lake, Carlton 1965

I found it hard even then to go through the love-play and sweet seriousness that went on between Catherine and me, knowing that Marian Harrison was a sort of mental spectator.

Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith 1946

To make it quite satisfactory to the man, the woman must be tender and supple and skilled in the charm and movements of love-play.

Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918

After the preliminaries of love-play, the stimulated penis, erect, enlarged and stiffened, is pressed into the woman's vagina.

Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918