I man, in the end of his chara6lcrs, before the Canter - bury tales, thus excufes the ribaldry, which is very grofs in many of his novels. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical] Reference
Our countryman, in the end of his characters, before the Canterbury tales, thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry? ". From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
Hoskins checked this ribaldry by sternly looking towards. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
"I never yet knew it was ribaldry to talk about one's teeth.". From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Oh! go on with your ribaldry until the Archon calls the case. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
One misses the variety, the vigour, the ribaldry of Tristram Shandy. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
I should have thought evil of anyone who had sent me the vile ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference
He saw the look of Madame l'Etiquette, the ribaldry of acquaintances at. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
This supplies the infant population with a large stock-in-trade of ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The play was almost completely intact in all its ribaldry and outspokenness. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Baird Gewirtz: The Vagina Monologues Comes to Beijing] Reference
Rhyming and ribaldry aside, beaver fever is misleading in more ways than the obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Giardiasis: How To Battle Beaver Fever] Reference
For that loose ribaldry I shall have a word hereafter, if the jury desire to hear it. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Bishop must be got to say why he had sent that low ribaldry to a clergyman in his parish. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference
Those further off pelted them with stones or offal, and assailed them with insulting ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
The stories, observations and reflections, in prose and verse, represent one and all the ribaldry of. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Should be quite the delectable and entertaining evening, and I expect to return with tales of ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Friends, Sisters, Dating and FRIDAY!!] Reference
Some in the prison are merry, and enjoy a dance, while others are indulging in obscene jests and ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
Does any man who has a wife and sisters, or children at home, say ‘Go on’ to such disgusting ribaldry as this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
She was a woman of feisty spirits and Chaucerian ribaldry whose role at Terra Nova Bay I was never able to ascertain. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
Goldsmith, unhappily, Farquhar's moral tone is not high; sensuality is confounded with love, ribaldry mistaken for wit. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
But the silence of the churchyard is now broken by a voice -- not of the youth -- nor a voice of laughter and ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
Some are plundered; some mutilated; some covered with ribaldry and insult — all more or less outraged and dishonored!. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Juvenal, raked up that forgotten sink of filth and ribaldry, but laid before you things rather ridiculous than dishonest. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Folly] Reference
In the residents common room at Brackenfield General that night the case was discussed with great freedom and some ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference
It's the May edition of "Politics and Pints", our monthly gathering of political junkies for a night of trivia and general ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Elena Kagan to be Obama's Supreme Court pick] Reference
‘The ribaldry of this miserable man is despicably disgusting,’ said Pott, pretending to address Bob Sawyer, and scowling upon Slurk. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
Tonight is the August edition of "Politics and Pints", the Fix's night of political (and other trivia) -- not to mention general ribaldry. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Huckabee, Iowa frontrunner?] Reference
The seemingly intelligent individual who can only find material for ribaldry in this connection is a more serious buffoon than he imagines. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
But there is a coarseness of fibre in Chapman's creation, an occasional foul-mouthed ribaldry of utterance which robs him of sympathetic charm. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
The air became stifling; the ribaldry of laughter enveloped her; instinctively she glanced around, and her restless, troubled gaze fell upon the duke. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Discharged at length, and continuing his ribaldry in the columns of the "Register," he flies before an Act of Parliament, and takes new refuge in America. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
In the next place, let us clear away as it were and remove all insolence, and jeering, and mocking, and ribaldry, which are the evil seasonings of freedom of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Thus the audience felt no call to champion the cause of their deities when held up to ribaldry on the open stage; they left them to defend themselves -- if they could. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
There is the image of Amy telling rude jokes to Mom and Michael trying to curb the ribaldry, but being swept away by the filth, and Michael responding with Pentium jokes. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
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