Designed by British artist Paul Day, it is intended to evoke the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace.

Official Stargate sources advertised Vala as a " scheming, unscrupulous, thieving con artist ", " feisty " and " occasionally fickle ", with a " mysterious agenda " and a seemingly " amorous interest in Dr. Daniel Jackson ".

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

He had no amorous feelings toward Mary and sought the marriage for its political and strategic gains ; Philip's aide Ruy Gómez de Silva wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, " the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but in order to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and to preserve the Low Countries.

He was successful in all three of them, mainly because he had an amorous relationship with Pilar de Muguiro y Beruete that opened him many doors.

It is said too that she was the daughter of Faunus, and that she resisted the amorous advances of her father who had fallen in love with her, so that he even beat her with myrtle twigs because she did not yield to his desires though she had been made drunk by him on wine.

She is associated with the MacCarthy dynasty of Desmond, who adopted her as their fairy woman, and the O ' Keeffes and FitzGerald dynasty, with whom she has had amorous affairs ( MacKillop 1998 ; Monaghan 2004 ).

Yet Arthur himself, before the wedding night, had stated that he was feeling very ' lusty and amorous ', and Anthony Willoughby, one of his attendants claimed that on the following morning he had called for a cup of ale, saying " for I have been this night in the midst of Spain ".

In the context of these troubles, and Rand ’ s reported frustrations in her own marriage, Branden and Rand — who had a passionate philosophic bond — developed amorous feelings for each other, and, with the reluctant permission of their spouses, began a love affair in 1954.

French had lived at 94 Lancaster Gate, London, which provided a useful base for his amorous activities, with George Moore, a rich American friend.

* Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer, is said to have had amorous women sending him letters, money, and other gifts during his time in prison.

Martial congratulates a friend on keeping up amorous advances to a girl who had indulged in six helpings of it.

Moreover, as Lü Bu had access to Dong Zhuo's residence, he started an amorous affair with one of Dong's servant maids, and was constantly in fear of being discovered by his foster father.

Besides, as Lü had access to Dong's residence, he had an amorous affair with one of Dong's chambermaids and was constantly in fear of being discovered.

An affair with the third eldest, Varvara, can be verified ; after that had subsided, Potemkin formed close — and probably amorous — relationships successively with Alexandra, the second eldest, and Ekaterina, the fifth.

In the 1953 version, El Khobar's disguise was that of a mild-mannered Latin teacher who tutored Margot and had to fend off her amorous advances ( which were fairly discreet by modern standards ).

Old ‘ Uncle Tom ’ was said to have been an amorous bachelor and when he was young had bright red hair.

The only staff member to attend his memorial service was Elizabeth Corday, for whom Romano had had feelings since she had first arrived in the fourth season, during which she rejected his amorous advances.

In keeping with Portuguese tradition, at the age of eighteen Pedro of Braganza not only had a string of amorous adventures behind him and was principally interested in horse racing and love affairs, but in 1817 ( the year of his marriage to Leopoldina ) he was living as if in wedlock with French dancer Noemie Thierry, who was finally removed from the court by his father a month after Leopoldina's arrival in Rio de Janeiro.

" His contemporaries called him ' amorous ', and in Turkey he was reputed to have ' had many women ' and ' built little houses for them '.

Lex Luthor, with whom it is implied the Parasite had engaged in amorous, " extramarital " activity while in Lois ' form, was infuriated when he learned of the Parasite's schemes.

Since one of Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis had already been given that title, however, it was given its final name in reference to the myth of the amorous pursuit of the nymph Syrinx by the god Pan, in which Pan falls in love with Syrinx, however, as Syrinx does not return the love to Pan, she turns herself into a water reed and hides in the marshes.

The fourth movement ( the second " Nachtmusik "), with its " amorous " marking and reduced instrumentation — trombones, tuba and trumpets are silent and woodwinds reduced by half — has been described as " a long stretch of chamber music set amidst this huge orchestral work ".

One of his poems, the erotic Tirsi morir volea, recounting the amorous encounter of a shepherd and a nymph, was set to music as a madrigal more often than any other single poem of the entire era.

* Arrigo Boito, composing a libretto for Verdi's opera Falstaff by improvising upon materials in Merry Wives and Henry IV, built the moonlit last act set in Windsor Great Park around a prank revenge played upon the amorous Falstaff by masqueraders disguised as spirits and the spectral " Black Huntsman ", in whom Herne the Hunter is recognizable.

A simple story of an amorous seduction by the film ’ s hero is set around a series of topical references to a generation of Spaniards born in the immediate post-civil war period who frustrations and nostalgia are embodied in the film ’ s protagonist.

To the first set belongs the famous poem Sulla natura d ' amore, which in fact is a treatise on amorous metaphysics, and was annotated later in a learned way by renowned Platonic philosophers of the 15th century, such as Marsilius Ficinus and others.

The story, set in Ancient Greece at the time of the Olympic Games, is about amorous rivalry and characters ' taking places to gain the loved one.

She was also known to wear heavy makeup around her eyes and carry a tambourine which she could use to fend off the amorous advances of Pantalone.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

More orthodox versions show the maiden scrambling away from the amorous arms of the god, as in the oil on copper painting of Fillipo Lauri and the oil on canvas by Salvator Rosa in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.

It contained some compositions in Latin on the words of psalms in French, and Italian amorous worldly texts.

In another scholium, it is said that the Argonautica's account of Ganymede's abduction by an amorous Zeus ( Argonautica 3. 114 – 17 ) was also modelled on a version by Ibycus ( in Homer's earlier account, Zeus abducted the youth to be his wine-pourer: Iliad 20. 234 ), and that Ibycus, moreover, described the abduction of Tithonus by Dawn ( Eos ).

The life of Hipponax, as revealed in the poems, resembles a low-life saga centred on his private enmities, his amorous escapades and his poverty but it is probable he was another Petronius, depicting low-life characters while actually moving in higher social circles.

Edward Gibbon wrote of her that the " influence of two sister prostitutes, Marozia and Theodora was founded on their wealth and beauty, their political and amorous intrigues: the most strenuous of their lovers were rewarded with the Roman tiara, and their reign may have suggested to darker ages the fable of a female pope.

Louis died on 5 August 882 at Saint Denis in the centre of his realm, having fallen from his horse whilst chasing a girl with amorous intent.

# The epigram received a great development in its second or Alexandrian era, when its range was extended to include anecdote, satire, and amorous longing ; when epitaphs and votive inscriptions were composed on imaginary persons and things.

The oil painting shows an actor playing a guitar on a stone bench looking across at a couple locked in an amorous embrace.

But the amorous topic of Semele, which is practically a creation of the late Restoration Period, transparently drew on Greek myths, not Hebrew laws, and so it displeased those attending for a different kind of uplift.

Marcus immediately becomes amorous and makes a move on her when she visits him at his office with the intention of providing Angel with information on her current rival Gavin Parks and thus undermining his status in the firm.

A Hickey is a mark on the skin caused by amorous contact.

He did not seem a political animal but resembled the clever, helpless youth in an Aldous Huxley novel, an outsize Cherubino intent on amorous experience but too shy and clumsy to succeed.

While Netti and Menni are away on the mission to Venus, Leonid and Enno engage in an amorous relationship.

He broke with age-old subtleties and niceties common to amorous poetry and wrote on love in frank and provocative terms.

One of them was titled În Nirvana (" Into Nirvana "), and notably expanded on the early years of their friendship and on one of Eminescu's earliest amorous disappointments.

Late in his life, he even confessed that the affair involving Venturiano, Dumitrache, and Dumitrache's wife Veta was partly based on an amorous misadventure he experienced as a young man.

Based on Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The Wanderer ( 1664 ), The Rover features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen in Naples at Carnival time.