I looked at Morton, who smiled licentiously at me. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight Whispers] Reference
“Separate but adjoining bedrooms,” Gisselle remarked, and smiled licentiously. From Wordnik.com. [All That Glitters] Reference
They hang around like the lumpen on the corners, in bars, in the movies; and they take liberties and act licentiously. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO MARKS PALACE ATTACK ANNIVERSARY] Reference
His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he most licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
This must be a sort of easy style, and yet not utterly without rules, so that it may seem to range at freedom, not to wander about licentiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Above this table was an oval barometer with a black border enlivened with gilt bands, on which the flies had so licentiously disported themselves that the gilding had become problematical. From Wordnik.com. [Eug�nie Grandet] Reference
I had been gathering, on which my fancy licentiously banqueted. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
Yet what good old opinions have not been licentiously unhinged?. From Wordnik.com. [A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps] Reference
Fathers often quote Scripture loosely, if not licentiously; and sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark] Reference
"Let the soldiers," he said elsewhere, "be allowed to live very licentiously!". From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference
Rep-tile, a creeping thing v. Res-pite, to put off v. Rev-el, to riot licentiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference
But she is not a widow indeed that lives in pleasure (v. 6), or who lives licentiously. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Conjecture, though it be sometimes unavoidable, I have not wantonly nor licentiously indulged. From Wordnik.com. [Preface to Shakespeare] Reference
Hence, they began to live even more licentiously, and in the greatest security to despise all threats. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood] Reference
Fathers often quote Scripture loosely, if not licentiously; and sometimes allude only when they seem to quote. (b.). From Wordnik.com. [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established] Reference
But Pertinax was created emperor against the wishes of the soldiers, who, being accustomed to live licentiously under. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince] Reference
So I mused thus licentiously until one clear conviction possessed me: that I would no longer pretend to the social superiority of one. From Wordnik.com. [Ruggles of Red Gap] Reference
What punctilious loyalty to the little observances of literature, of wall-decoration, call it, in the most licentiously minded of them!. From Wordnik.com. [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference
That he understood his authors cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
That he understood his authors, cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
Now this spring-head of science is purely fantastical, and the figure conveys a false notion to the mind, as figures employed licentiously are apt to do. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope] Reference
Another gentleman, a widower, "passes his time in drinking, living licentiously with his servants, and covering butter-pots with the handsomest title-deeds of his lineage.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
Because there are a hundred or so of large towns in the world where women live licentiously and have few children, will you maintain that it is their business to have few children?. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
But Pertinax was created Emperour against the soldiers wills, who being accustomed to live licentiously under Commodus, could not endure that honest course that Pertinax sought to reduce them to. From Wordnik.com. [Machiavelli, Volume I] Reference
But let me ask, With what show of reason can the pretence of Infallibility, (as well as the plea of Primacy), be set up on behalf of a pair of MSS. licentiously corrupt as these have already been proved to be?. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established] Reference
'theory,' 'hypothesis' -- are used nearly always most licentiously, and as arbitrarily as a Newmarket jockey selects the colors for his riding-dress. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
Of private life licentiously displayed. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXCURSION BOOK SECOND] Reference
Page 85 associate licentiously with them. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
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