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Adam and Eve choose

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[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 61: Madam Cunicula, or the Countess of Bumfeagle.
at bum-feague (v.) under bum, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 117: Man may commend a Common-Shore, That every Scoundrel uses; But still a Whore will be a Whore, In Spite of all the Muses.
at common shore, n.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 93: An expert Jilt [will] impose a crack’d Virginity, for a whole One, on some old Leacher of Quality.
at cracked, adj.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 7: [She is] the greatest Enemy to Dancing, because the Head of her Prophet was made the Reward of a jig; yet she dearly loves to follow the first false Step that was taken in the beginning.
at dance, v.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 126: Women that admire the Sport, Will have their Sparks to ease ’em.
at ease, v.1
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 48: [Her] craving Lust, ... too fiery to be quench’d by the dilatory Emissions of one single Engine.
at engine, n.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 52: Some Smock-fac’d Gamester, who can win her Money first [...] and kiss her into a good Humour.
at gamester, n.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 18: If a Woman can gratify her Revenge by hornifying her Husband in an unknown Act, she will account it a Satisfaction to upbraid him with the same in an unknown Language.
at hornify, v.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 109: A loving Reconciliation, by the seasonable Intercession of the Matrimonial Peace-maker.
at matrimonial peacemaker, n.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 93: My Lady is feelingly sollicited by some insinuating Bawd, to become a carnal Warming-pan to some old gouty Courtier, who is so highly enamour’d with her youthful Perfections, that he cannot bridle his pamper’d Lust, without she will grant him a Bit, that may give a Check to his Concupiscence.
at warming pan, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 210: The masculine Peg, which is hung on by Nature for the Distinction of Sexes.
at peg, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 94: Teaz’d and tir’d with the Fumbling Performances of her generous Keeper, ... communicating her Favours to some more vigorous Gallant.
at perform, v.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 86: She ploughs with some Gallant.
at plough, v.
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 70: [She] never forgets the pretty Trick that she learn’d at London, ’till she has furnish’d the Family with such a mottled Breed, that are obscurely related, by their Fathers Sides, to half the Gentlemen in the County.
at trick, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Adam and Eve 78: She nothing has to boast, Besides her Tongue and Udder.
at udders, n.
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