How To Use Voluptuary In A Sentence
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In place of some Hollywood voluptuary, she gives us a Cleopatra who is a working queen and ruler: at one point we even see her in specs sitting at a desk signing state papers.
Antony and Cleopatra - review
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A display cabinet of ornaments, including a china voluptuary bathing in something foamy, is to become a particular favourite.
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He himself, who has been described as a voluptuary, delighted in the endurance of cold and heat and of severe labor.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2
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She had become an accomplished voluptuary; indeed, many said she was destined to become a diva.
THE BROKEN GOD
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She defies all convention by playing the character not as some swaggering voluptuary but as a gracious, humane woman whose mission is to prevent her daughter repeating her mistakes.
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I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of a smoker.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription]
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But he had already realised the tragedy of the voluptuary, which is, after a little time, not that he must go on living, but that he cannot live in two places at once.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
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The injury to the child would be far less if the voluptuary said frankly "I beat you because I like beating you; and I shall do it whenever I can contrive an excuse for it.
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A massive nude such as Seated Woman is less constrained by social identity than the businessmen, yet her stilted and impassive air suggests not a voluptuary but a studio model.
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They were so at home that a complaint was sent to the East India Company headquarters, ‘that the household of a Factor bore a stronger resemblance to the harem of some Mussulman voluptuary than to the household of a Christian trader.’
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It may seem unfair to over-emphasize the voluptuary in Mr. Pepys, but it is Mr. Pepys, the promiscuous amourist; stringing his lute (God forgive him!) on a Sunday, that is the outstanding figure in the Diary.
The Art of Letters
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The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
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I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of
The Kreutzer Sonata
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Ah! The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
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Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary.
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The dancer makes her a voluptuary from the start, selling her soul for pleasure.
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*The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.
The Revolutionist’s Handbook
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Now am I relapsed into all the dissatisfied repinement of a true English grumbling voluptuary.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
