Knee-tremblingly

[Stephen Goranson]

>From _Angela's Ashes_ (1999)  by Frank McCourt:
A knee-trembler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the ... That knee-trembler put Angela in an interesting condition and, of course, there was talk. ...
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Me neither. But I'm old too.

JL

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:14 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
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> > copulation performed while standing
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> Perhaps I'm a member of what was derided in my adolescence as The
> Clean-Minded Club - composed of those blissfully unaware of sexual
> innuendo and double-entendre - I make no connection between what the
> renowned Walter referred to as an "up-righter" and a trembling of the
> knees.
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