Loins

Examples

• Again the moon shone with faint luminosity on his white wet figure, on the stooping back and the rounded loins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Gird up thy loins, and seek out this Wilfred, the son of Cedric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over the side of the boat, made her want to die, to die. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She traced with her hands the line of his loins and thighs, at the back, and a living fire ran through her, from him, darkly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She saw his back, the movement of his white loins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He could feel his position was ridiculous, his loins exposed behind him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The beauty of his dim and luminous loins as he climbed into the boat, his back rounded and soft--ah, this was too much for her, too final a vision. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Kneeling on the hearth-rug before him, she put her arms round his loins, and put her face against his thigh. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With perfect fine finger-tips of reality she would touch the reality in him, the suave, pure, untranslatable reality of his loins of darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Gudrun watched her curious walk, stiff and jerking at the loins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Editor: Maggie