"What those concupiscent Gauls did to me," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
Be prepared to stumble across the occasional concupiscent-sex closet. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Day Week] Reference
In the matter of concupiscent thoughts, the fault lies with you when by. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Honuphrius is a concupiscent exservicemajor who makes dis-honest propositions to all. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
"To hear of such deeds is not likely to cause concupiscent movements in normal men," said Fra Tomasso dryly. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
In the matter of concupiscent thoughts, the fault lies with you when by intentional nudity you give rise to them. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Roll your flea-bitten body off that concupiscent Goldman Sachs trainee and lace up for the Steps for Breath 5K Fun Run/Walk. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Day Week] Reference
On the other hand, of course, the satisfaction of lurid concupiscent energies in the name of truth is an equal deception and error. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Simpson: The Noetic Value of Fiction] Reference
A concupiscent male face composed of countless tiny flowers, with shriveled brown protuberances discernible as human nipples on the skin itself…. From Wordnik.com. [CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep] Reference
In neither Alice's drinking, Lucy's man chasing, nor Cecilia's concupiscent fulfillment with the Mogul, does Austen judge these appetites as a moral failing. From Wordnik.com. ['Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_] Reference
Many thinkers agreed with Augustine that concupiscent love was to be distinguished from friendship, and, with respect to heavenly beatitude, use from fruition. From Wordnik.com. [Lorenzo Valla] Reference
This sort of psycho-sociological analysis is important, but inevitably sounds like a defensive ploy to inject Socially Redeeming Value into the concupiscent stew. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Krassner: Susie Bright Interviews Paul Krassner] Reference
The sensitive concupiscent appetite is again subdivided into six passions. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales] Reference
Some American's concupiscent eye had alighted on her, observed her beauty, and marked her down. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and Columbus] Reference
He said that our sensitive appetite was divided into two parts: the concupiscent and the irascible. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales] Reference
This king, free will, will dwell in the highest town in the kingdom -- that is to say, in the concupiscent faculty of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages] Reference
How else can one explain "The Latinate world of that day had merely to deal with the concupiscent madness of a Constantinopolitan pipsqueak". From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
The stages of the conflict are many and various; and she is sorely let and hindered by the animal desires of the inferior or concupiscent steed. From Wordnik.com. [Phaedrus] Reference
The reasonable appetite is also divided, like the sensitive, into the concupiscent and the irascible, but it makes use of the mind as its instrument. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales] Reference
It was not long ago when she stood by her concupiscent husband and vigorously defended him against the press hounds who, by the way, exposed only the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Caucus] Reference
It's not much of a choice when a concupiscent spouse seems the better option, but that's the hand Elin's been dealt, and that's the hand she has to play with. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
"All right, concupiscent thought, deliberately entertained. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
"Nudity, my daughter," Incus continued gamely, "is wrong not only because it engenders concupiscent thoughts in weak men, but because it is often the occasion of violent attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
And my husband is not the most concupiscent. From Wordnik.com. [On My Knees @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy] Reference
In snack bar cups, concupiscent frozen custard. From Wordnik.com. [At the Pine-Woods Poetry and Golf Club] Reference
Quae omnia manifesce exprimunt amorem concupiscent is) nee nisi violeiiter nimis aptari possunt amori benevo - ientis. From Wordnik.com. [Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ...] Reference
My eyes concupiscent. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Radcliffe Dating Laura O’Toole] Reference
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
"Art thou not concupiscent?". From Wordnik.com. [Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers] Reference
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