Riches debauched one class with idleness of mind and body. From LearnThat.org. [Edward Bellamy.]
debauch the young people with wine and women. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a wild debauch. From Dictionary.com.
“Shall” is a mandatory verb — implying that the man really intended to both seduce and debauch from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman” ] Reference
Those that can swallow a false word debauch their consciences, so that a false oath will not choke them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
He loved a debauch in the verse of masters of his art. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Palmer had continued his debauch until he was frenzied. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
A debauch of two days had left him virtually a mad man. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
I see, if I stay longer, I shall lead thee into a debauch. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
How adorably blue the sky in its debauch of sun-lit ether!. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
It took time for him to recover from his debauch of feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Alexander the Great was born 356 B.C. and died in a drunken debauch. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
Presently his debauch turned into a heavy sleep, and the hours passed. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
War is a great debauch, perhaps now the last the race will experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
It favors not the association of the cup, the dice-box, or the debauch. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
It was then that Palais Royal became the head-centre for debauch and abandon. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
By the end of the debauch perhaps one or more of the number would have met death. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
A bacchic emulation reigned, which threatened to end in scenes bordering upon a debauch. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Awoke by the officious valet, and remorseless friend, deemest though our debauch was felt?. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Fatigue, exposure, horseback exercise, or an alcoholic debauch will cause their appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
His misery after the debauch is most funnily and expressively depicted in the orchestration. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
One morning on recovering from a debauch he reviewed the situation and saw the shoals ahead. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Go with a clear head, not one ringing with last night's debauch, and study the Dying Gladiator!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Instead of attempting to restrain the fellows, Jamison seemed to encourage them in their debauch. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
Great was his astonishment and alarm on beholding the husband of the lady whom he had come to debauch. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Did he take a yoke of oxen from the field, did he come home smelling of yesterday's debauch? wink at it. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Who load our penitentiaries, crowd our whipping-posts, debauch our slaves, and cheat and defraud us all?. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
Cosmically regarded, this war is a debauch rather than a purge, and debauches have always to be paid for. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
As he looked at her he thought of last night's debauch -- the bar-room -- the baseness and vileness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Bob stood by my bedside; the traces of the preceding night's debauch plainly written on his haggard countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
This brought out Rousseau in an eloquent harangue against the theatre as exerting influence to debauch public morals. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
To these elegant pleasures he sometimes added a furious debauch, when his imagination was for the moment maddened by champagne. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Yet we still have many men and some women whose business it is, and a very profitable one, to debauch youth or despoil children. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
During his years at Oxford, the tabloids turned every undergraduate flirtation into a torrid romance, every party into a debauch. From Wordnik.com. [A Brother Speaks Out] Reference
Let drawing, arrangement, construction even, go -- they say -- and with bloodshot eyes they dance in one wild debauch of life and light!. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
The constant strain of excitement produced much dissipation certainly -- but it seldom took the reprehensible form of rowdyism and debauch. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
And the repulsive New Year's special, which degenerated into a nudity-laden post-show debauch, may have stalled talks on a late-night TV slot. From Wordnik.com. [Ring Out The Old, Gross Out The New] Reference
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