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• Published on: 2008-11-26
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Use in Literature


Cohabitation

He delighted to expatiate on the evils of cohabitation.
–Charles Brockden Brown in Carwin the Biloquist.

They do not engage in marriage, until they have tried, by previous cohabitation, the disposition, and particularly the fecundity, of the person with whom they are engaged.
–Geraldus Cambrensis in The Description of Wales.

No form or ceremony, civil or religious; no notice before, or publication after; no cohabitation, no writing, no witnesses even, are essential to the constitution of this, the most important contract which two persons can enter into.
–Wilkie Collins in Man and Wife.

The need for constant continued care was probably a chief means in transforming temporary cohabitations into permanent unions.
–John Dewey in Democracy and Education.

In my cages, on the other hand, there is cohabitation.
–Jean Henri Fabre in The Life of the Spider.

Poverty played no part in it; his business flourished, and Mrs. Buncombe, throughout a cohabitation of five years, made no complaint of her lot.
–George Gissing in The Whirlpool.

The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit longer with crime without abdicating.
–Victor Hugo in Les Miserables (tr Isabel F. Hapgood).

Old Dorion was one of those French creoles, descendants of the ancient Canadian stock, who abound on the western frontier, and amalgamate or cohabit with the savages.
–Washington Irving in Astoria.

Under close cohabitation it must have become of imperious necessity.
–P. Kropotkin in Mutual Aid.

It had always been vaguely understood that they were to be married, that is to say, it had been taken for granted that when a fitting occasion presented itself they would render their cohabitation legal.
–George Moore in A Mummer's Wife.
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