warblings

Updated: June 30, 2025

In a minute or two, the voluptuous strain ended; and, ere she knew that any stranger listened to her amatory warblings, the arm of Curius was wound about her slender waist, and his half-laughing voice was ringing in her ear, "Well sung, my lovely Greek, and daintily advised!—By my faith! sweet one, I will take thee at thy word!"

Henry William Herbert - The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1