If there be no God and no future state, yet, even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious. From LearnThat.org.
Coarse and licentious men. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She quotes a “wonderfully just” passage from Milton, calls a licentious speech from Dryden's “State of Innocence” an “odious thing,” and says. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood]
Meet in licentious revel. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
It is celebrated at harvest time with dancing, and drinking, "and every kind of licentious enjoyment.". From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
Gospel has lent itself to a certain kind of licentious handling -- of which in other ancient writings we have no experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels] Reference
Emerson's biggest gripe are those images which even calls "licentious" and he goes on at length about (without giving an example). From Wordnik.com. [So Many Books] Reference
No man is a better man because of a past record of licentious habits. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Meanwhile the fancy of the licentious cardinal had turned to other women. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The licentious thinker and writer prejudices the liberty of thinking and writing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
With Madame de Warens, Rousseau's relations, as is intimated above, became licentious. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Afterwards he "followed the court" for some time, leading a frivolous if not licentious life. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Even though she despised him, and preferred the company of licentious beachcombers, he worshiped her. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
It is the offspring of licentiousness, and its advocates merely wish to give legal color to licentious habits. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
A dissolute, licentious, free-and-easy life is filled with the dregs of human suffering, iniquity and despair. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The graceless son, however, soon forgot his baptismal vows, and returned to his former licentious mode of life. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Then -- but we will not inflict upon the reader the disgusting details of that evening's licentious extravagances. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Now, if in such conditions men beget their children, who can affect surprise if they develop licentious tendencies?. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Though bred up in the licentious school of the Regent Orleans, he led in the outset a comparatively blameless life. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
They drank, they became intoxicated; the conversation became licentious; impieties of every sort issued from every mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The greatest misfortune that can ever happen to the press is for it to be in the possession of invisible and licentious hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
'Cause enough, 'replied the black --' he shut me up in a dark dungeon for having gratified the wishes of his licentious wife. '. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Common-sense teaches that children who are begotten in the heat of animal passion, are likely to be licentious when they grow up. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
For neither those who are out of their minds, nor the licentious, nor the unjust think themselves faulty -- some even think themselves perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The argument contends for the difficulty, next to impossibility, of distinguishing where that which is allowable ends, and that which is licentious begins. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
As revolting as this fact was, I was compelled to believe it, as his former slaves told me of his licentious character from his early youth to eighty years!. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
So many of the arguments have suggested that modern women are either licentious or blind, that they end pregnancies heedlessly or don't know what they're doing. From Wordnik.com. [NOW AVAILABLE: MIDDLE GROUND] Reference
Scotia they gave incredible trouble from their lawless and licentious habits, in addition to costing the government no less a sum than ten thousand pounds a year. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
According to Shalit, whose new book "Girls Gone Mild" was published last month, this "youth-led rebellion" is a welcome corrective to our licentious, oversexed times. From Wordnik.com. [Girls Going Mild(er)] Reference
The profligate novels, licentious drama, and irreligious opinions of the middle class now in France, are the result of the infidelity and wickedness which produced the Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
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