Meanings of osculation in English

Next ensued a period of rather audible osculation, and then there was silence.

If osculation is a mark of love, surely Mrs. Mack is the best of mothers.

Still I suppose they are old men and not up on the modern 1908 rules on osculation.

Then the crowns were removed and kissed by each of the marrying pair, the bridegroom first performing the osculation.

When the children departed after an orgy of osculation, Jaffery surveyed with a twinkling eye the decorous quartette sitting by the fire.

What one of them can tell you a thing concerning the original osculation-thatprimary amatory congress which was the beginning of the beginning?-

I overtook him in Cartagena, endured the process of osculation, saw him without rhime or reason wrangle with and publicly insult our Consul there.

When this command had been obeyed with urbane alacrity, Sam called out again, very much as if he were piping all hands to osculation: 'Rev.

I here fancy osculations, palpitations, and exit Miss Theo, blushing like a rose.

'But now,' he said, releasing himself from the prolonged osculation, 'about this Captain Sarrasin?'

I looked upon this question as a particular case of the theory of osculations which I had studied in Legrange's "Fonctions Analytiques."

It reminded us of the toe of St. Peter, in the cathedral at Rome, which has been worn smooth by the osculations of devout Christians.

"I am sure a dragon of propriety might trust a loving pair in this wabbly little craft, which an attempt at osculation would upset."

Next ensued a period of rather audible osculation, and then there was silence.

If osculation is a mark of love, surely Mrs. Mack is the best of mothers.

Still I suppose they are old men and not up on the modern 1908 rules on osculation.