Perhaps Mrs. Raeburn experienced an elation akin to that felt of old by wayside nymphs who bore children to Apollo and other divine philanderers.
"Carnival"
Compton Mackenzie
These historic philanderers should be their limit, and when the worst came to the worst, Estelle would softly murmur to Lionel, "Petrarch and Laura have borne it, and we must bear it too."
"The Dark Tower"
Phyllis Bottome
I am not so sure, she confided, that I admire professional philanderers as much as I did.
"The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story"
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