How To Use Lewdness In A Sentence
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On the contrary, I have carefully preserved this and as far as the subject would give me leave, improved it, but with this caution always, that I have set forth the entertainments of vice in their proper colours, lest young people might be led to take them for innocent diversions, and from figures not uncommon in modern authors, learn to call lewdness gallantry, and the effects of unbridled lust the starts of too warm an imagination.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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Greek officers visited Lancashire this summer as part of a project with the county's police to help them cut back on violence, lewdness and other drunken behaviour in the resort.
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With this Masrur was confounded and could make her no answer; but presently she said, “Indeed, the master-thief, if he steal, stealeth not but what is worth his neck, and every woman who doth lewdness with other than her husband is styled a thief; so, if it must be thus and no help320, thou shalt give me whatsoever my heart desireth of money and raiment and ornaments and what not.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Could in utter hate to lewdness your sex dishabilitate;
Poems and Fragments
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They don't even complain about the lewdness and promiscuity being displayed on the so-called soap operas.
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Could in utter hate to lewdness your sex dishabilitate;
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
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As the member of a women's club that constantly crusades against public lewdness and drinking - the same club that got the science teacher fired - she believes that sex should never be discussed in the home.
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The estate of the criminal is confiscated, and all that belonged to her destroyed with her (v. 39): They shall throw down thy eminent place, and (v. 41) they shall burn thy houses, as the habitations of bad women are destroyed, in detestation of their lewdness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The campus experienced two earlier instances of "lewdness" last weekend, which was Princeton's first admitted students 'weekend of the year.
Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
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They don't even complain about the lewdness and promiscuity being displayed on the so-called soap operas.
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They are as ready for their cups, for their rotten, obscene, and profane discourse; and, in a word, for all kind of lewdness; as if the preacher had not reproved their vice, but produced new arguments to encourage it; and exhorted them to persevere diligently in those blessed paths, in which they are sure to have the Devil for their leader, and their lust for their companion.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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They occur in all languages, and hint how readily the worship of fire glided into that of the reproductive principle, into extravagances of chastity and lewdness, into the shocking orgies of the so-called phallic worship.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
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Incensed by "lewdness," Comstock worked the halls of Congress and in 1873 got passed the "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use," otherwise known as the Comstock Act.
Harry Potter And The Ministry Of FireBook Burnings: Harry Potter And The Ministry Of Fire
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A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity.
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The owners of the store are obviously free to ask him, in his "lewdness", to leave and not come back, but to attack him with the bludgeon of government is wrong.
Libertarian Blog Place
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And young-eyed Lewdness walks her midnight rounds:
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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II. ii.86 (166,4) [Not a man of those, but he hath the wit to lose his hair] That is, _Those who have more hair than wit_, are easily entrapped by loose women, and suffer the consequences of lewdness, one of which, in the first appearance of the disease in Europe, was the loss of hair.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Isn't your name a byword in London for debauchery and vice, for every kind of lewdness and depravity?
Flashman's Lady
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Official charges are public indecency and public lewdness.
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When we see so many revolt from the profession of the reformed religion, to the corruptions and superstitions of Rome; and others, from a religious and sober life, to plunge themselves into all kind of lewdness and debauchery, and, it is to be feared, into atheism and infidelity; can we doubt any longer whether it be possible for
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
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Every kind of lewdness, every form of evil; no justice, no restraint.
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
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But alas! this is a way which never takes: for such great ones in all their debauches will be attended upon through thick and thin, and care not for any but a thoroughpaced companion in their vices; since no other can give them any countenance in their lewdness, which is the chief thing they drive at and desire.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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What arose, in its place, is a kind of moralistic, paternalistic, reactionary culture in which undercover police arrest people for being drunk not for fighting or lewdness or driving drunk but simply for being drunk while sitting at the bar.
Get Kinky for Texas Governor
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21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Lewdness abounds, but after all of this repressed sexuality, the next scene is a chaste dance between Mina and the addled Harker.
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First, Methods and means of reformation had been tried in vain (v. 13): In thy filthiness is lewdness; thou hast become obstinate and impudent in it; thou hast got a habit of it, which is confirmed by frequent acts.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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My moral atmosphere is, anyhow, so foreign to me, a lewdness so obligatory that it hardly seems as if it were part of a moral donnee at all; and then his over-labored descriptions, and excessive explanations.
Familiar Letters of William James II
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A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity.
