Her wantonness is very disturbing. From LearnThat.org.
He in wantonness ope'd his wide jaws. From Wordnik.com. [Elegy on the Enclosure of Honington Green] Reference
At the outset men had found it impossible to speak too strongly of the "wantonness" of women. From Wordnik.com. [Little Essays of Love and Virtue] Reference
"wantonness" is all-important, especially when we remember that Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
For my firm sense forsook me -- it was not for wantonness. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
With the last gleam of day it left the stage to wantonness. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Looking askance at such wantonness is a long, proud tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Maxed Out] Reference
Roderick sinned in weak wantonness, while she only did so of necessity. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
It is and always has been the result of moral degradation and wantonness. 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
Nonetheless, the fear of legalized wantonness will quickly become a campaign issue. From Wordnik.com. [The War Over Gay Marriage] Reference
Being now more at leisure, the Athenians resolved, in the mere wantonness of power, that. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
Where wantonness laughs and thrives in gilded cages, and starves and dies in mouldy cellars. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
So has this pagan among modern nations borrowed something of the antique spirit of wantonness. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
I think I did not understand you; I heard, but would not hear; it was wantonness, not evil in me, Cino. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Hysterical women will inflict very severe pain on themselves -- merely for wantonness or in order to excite sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
The folk-war, brought on by the wantonness of the opponents, in itself brought peace and order, safety and discipline. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
The dainty china was all smashed and broken, and the men were throwing cups and glasses at one another in very wantonness. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
Indeed, there is one more kind of loose literature, the wantonness and pollution in which work most easy havoc upon youth. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
A certain Shepherd's Boy kept his sheep upon a common, and in sport and wantonness would often cry out, "The wolf! the wolf!". From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Democratic canvass was thus inaugurated, and the overthrow of the party provided for in the mere wantonness of political folly. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
At another, in honor of the nymph Cotys, they addressed her as the goddess of wantonness with many mysterious rites and ceremonies. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
'Deïphobus mighty in arms, seed of Teucer's royal blood, whose wantonness of vengeance was so cruel? who was allowed to use thee thus?. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
One offers the feminine virtues of modesty and fidelity, but magically combines them with wantonness where the singer is concerned and an open checkbook. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
It were folly not to be borne, for men, while seeking to escape the wantonness of a tyrant, to give themselves up to the wantonness of a rude unbridled mob. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
She sees to the right ( "it is wantonness warring upon misery," says Mr. Toddleworth) a long line of irregular, wooden buildings, black and besmeared with mud. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
We have heard that the dance was indulged in in all wantonness; none of the allurements of love were lacking, and you conducted yourself in a wholly worldly manner. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
His body shone white all over as the driven snow, his mane streamed proudly in the wind as he stamped on the ground and scoured in very wantonness over hill and valley. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Holidays there are days of idleness, riot, wantonness and excess; in which the slaves assemble together in alarming crowds, for the purposes of dancing, feasting and merriment. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Quartilla, spurred on by the wantonness of the others, seized hold of Giton and drew him into the bridal-chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
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