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  1. Amorous congress
  2. Basket-making
  3. Bread and butter
  4. Brush
  5. Clicket
  6. Face-making
  7. Blanket hornpipe
  8. Blow the grounsils
  9. Convivial society
  10. Take a flyer
  11. Green gown
  12. Lobster kettle
  13. Melting moments
  14. Pully hawly
  15. St. George
  16. A stitch
  17. Tiff

Euphemisms about sex from the 1800s. Complement with a Victorian pop-up book about sex.

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