That canker-worm, called lechery, has touched it. From Wordnik.com. [Venice Preserved A Tragedy in Five Acts] Reference
He responded with mild rebuke, thin-lipped lechery. From Wordnik.com. [The Irda]
I asked, amused by his ancient, unapologetic lechery. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: Marlene Dumas: Eros and Thanatos] Reference
Altogether giuen to lechery, and yet skante in fiedinge. From Wordnik.com. [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference
Is lechery not the least and last of the Seven Deadly Sins?. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
DANFORTH: She spoke nothing of lechery, and this man has lied. From Wordnik.com. [The Crucible]
"Thus trifles lead to death, and lechery finds its punishment.". From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Now, the dry serpigo on the subject! and war and lechery confound all!. From Wordnik.com. [Troilus and Cressida] Reference
It was not the standard gaze of unalloyed lechery he was familiar with. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
The lawyer looked her up and down with a whisper of lechery on his face. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
His movements were swift and businesslike, completely lacking in lechery. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Hans's kept flickering in animal wariness, Coenraad's in thwarted lechery. From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Time]
Richard Dawkins justifies his lechery and adultery on the basis of biology. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery?. From Wordnik.com. [The Crucible]
Forgetful, the evil reputation of lechery is attached, and death the portion. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
For that it brent it was a sign of lechery, the which was that time much used. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Lettinge louse to as many as helde of him, the bridle of al lechery and luste. From Wordnik.com. [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference
Looking on in horror and lechery, she wished she had the courage to join her son in his bed. From Wordnik.com. [EROTICA: A Visitor in the Night by Baron Darkside (Part II)] Reference
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him: something too crabbed that way, friar. From Wordnik.com. [Measure for Measure] Reference
lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!. From Wordnik.com. [Troilus and Cressida] Reference
We have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the commonwealth. From Wordnik.com. [Much Ado About Nothing] Reference
Thirdly, The ardour of lechery is very much subdued and mated by frequent labour and continual toiling. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
She despised the former character of her husband, and now was mad with jealousy at his unrestrained lechery. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
I think they have swallowed one another: I would laugh at that miracle: yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself. From Wordnik.com. [Troilus and Cressida] Reference
Trimalchio, styling him an abomination who set no limits to his lechery, finally ending by calling him a dog. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio] Reference
The lechery and greed of King Hal was the primary cause of his separation from papal authority, augmenting the. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
It began, “The air is full of lechery, and rumors of lechery,” and continued in a strain which made even the. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
Clubs were so damned male, and their whole attitude to women so after-dinnerish — half contempt, half lechery!. From Wordnik.com. [Over the River] Reference
That lechery licke not away the vigour of their spirites, and strength: nor lacke throwe menne in desperate doompes. From Wordnik.com. [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference
Boland to his crimes; lechery prompted Druce in his prowlings; and whisky was the fire that smouldered under Anson's brutalities. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Ruha let her hand drop to her jambiya, both angered by the fool's lechery and frightened she would have to slay him to save her honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
She believed that lechery was a form of witchcraft, giving a woman magical powers over a man, until in the end she could weaken him to. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
And they be so covetous, that, for a little silver, they sell their daughters, their sisters and their own wives to put them to lechery. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
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