dalliance literary

I know of at least two such dalliances in the past.

But I had no time for that sort of dalliance.

Berkeley did after all turn out to be my last dalliance with the education system.

But let us not look in too closely upon their dalliance.

Their dalliances may last a week, a year or a lifetime.

It was as if they had been mere dalliances before her.

Yet it is not your dalliance that I object to.

On the dalliance issue, both the public and the press have been inconsistent.

To be sure there were stories about a royal dalliance.

"It is not at three in the morning that one cares for dalliance."

"I can see you have a great deal to learn about the art of dalliance.

I'm sure that I provided little more than an amusement to her, a dalliance.

"I'll not pay you for a dalliance," he found himself saying.

Whistler may have had a dalliance with her at the time.

"I'm referring to a woman with whom you had a dalliance a while ago."

I'll go away and leave you to your fevered dalliances.

He hustled her on, saying there was no time for dalliance.

It would certainly be simpler if - well, dalliance on such a scale!

Even his amatory dalliances were a cut above anyone else's.

There was time here for softer things, more sophisticated dalliances.

The more mainstream the show the less acceptable such sexual dalliances are.

His dalliance went back to that first encounter in the steam room.

If dalliance were to his liking, it was to hers.

These thoughts form a second narrative to his and Amanda's dalliances.

For every deal that is struck, numerous dalliances are abandoned.