Meanings of amorous dalliance in English

As to the gossip Rupert might now be spreading about our supposed amorous dalliance, I preferred not to think.

Eustace explained, that it was the will of an absent father, and not amorous dalliance, which kept him from the field.

Boylike of buttocks, to and fro, in amorous dalliance, She sways as sway the nodding canes that in the north wind dance.

My spirit at present is haunting them, never leaves them, girds at and terrifies them at every instant, during their amorous dalliance!

As the amorous dalliance proceeds, he flits in brilliant spirals round and before her, and again resumes his tremulous flight, consonant with her emotional flutterings.

The songs of birds are discontinued as soon as their amorous dalliances and the care of their offspring have ceased.