"Trilby" is assaulted by the united comstockery of a dozen cities, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
At its mildest, this balderdash takes the form of the late Hamilton Wright Mabie's "White List of Books", at its worst, it is comstockery, an idiotic and abominable thing. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
But though the effects of comstockery are thus abominably insane and irritating, the fact is not to be forgotten that, after all, the thing is no more than an effect itself. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
In comstockery, if I do not err, the new Puritanism gave a sign of its formal departure from the old, and moral endeavour suffered a general overhauling and tightening of the screws. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
In all this dread of free inquiry, this childish skittishness in both writers and public, this dearth of courage and even of curiosity, the influence of comstockery is undoubtedly to be detected. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
I have gone into the anatomy and physiology of militant Puritanism because, so far as I know, the inquiry has not been attempted before, and because a somewhat detailed acquaintance with the forces behind so grotesque a manifestation as comstockery, the particular business of the present essay, is necessary to an understanding of its workings, and of its prosperity, and of its influence upon the arts. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
Museum; in place of them we have comstockery. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
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