It is very common that events arise from a debauch which are fatal, and always such as are disagreeable.
Bad education, bad habits, and bad customs, debauch our nature, and drive it headlong as it were into vice.
There is something very romantic in prowling the streets of the metropolis at midnight, in quest of adventure; at least, so my companions insisted, and I had embarked too deeply in the night's debauch to moralize upon its consequences.
Schrader speaks of a person from whose mouth and fauces after a debauch issued fire.
During a debauch the night before she had been engaged in a quarrel with a negro with whom she lived, and was struck by him several times on the head with an axe.
The threatened storm had broken while they were still at Baptiste Chambre's cabin, and the two days' debauch had lengthened into five.
But there is something--a complaint that I wish to make against a man who is, and has been for years, doing all in his power to debauch and brutalize the Indians of the North.
The best explanation I can find, although it does not entirely satisfy me, is that vulgar debauch shocked some aesthetic, rather than moral instinct.
But I do not think there was anything in my training to lead me to feel that drunkenness and debauch were any worse than card-playing.
He cursed the country; then, after a general debauch of obscenity, he decided it was time to feed.
The attainment of discretion was celebrated in what might almost have been hailed as a debauch of youthfulness.
For they thus concluded among themselves, that if they be able to debauch her, the gods will no more regard her nor Diana cure the sick for her).
It is too much to advocate the indiscriminate sacking of the alphabet, but yet it seems plausible that there is a happy medium between a recklessdebauch of errant letters and our present dead rigidity.
From such mere introductory departures from precision, such petty escapades as these, we would we might seduce the reader into an utter debauch of spelling.
To succumb meant usually an unrecking debauch of days, while the little red devil worked its sweet will with him, to finally leave him spent and shaken, a temporary sodden wreck.
It was the way in which many a debauch of days or even weeks had been ushered in.
Our manner of living is entirely plain; for as yet the natives are unacquainted with those refinements in cookery which debauch the taste: bullocks, goats, and poultry, supply the greatest part of their food.
Such a tendency has the slave-trade todebauch men's minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity!
Pray what luxurious debauch has Mr. Chute been guilty of, that he is laid up with the gout?
But when excess is an excess of strength, the debauch a debauch of beauty, who can condemn or even regret it?
So far, however, as concerns the war in the Germanic countries, it was to outward seeming but a mad debauchof blood and rapine, ending in nothing but the exhaustion of the combatants.
Long rows of slot machines offered all sorts of libidinous suggestions in placards, which proposed to debauch his morals for a penny a sight.
Horrible as it may seem, there were parts of France where the custom allowed the seigneur to debauch the daughter of his vassal without obstacle or penalty.
In a moment the cobwebs of his debauch began to fall from him, and he became alert.
The air of the suppliant fell from him, even the signs of his recent debauch seemed to give way before a startling alertness of mentality.
Also, he evidently had calculated upon early dawn as the time best suited to do this thing, in view of Felipe's long debauch upon unpaid-for wine.
Nor are the friends of such as indulge in an occasional drunken debauch permitted to send them there for temporary seclusion.
She had passed the night of this wild debauch in a vigil of prayers, tears, and lamentations over her sad lot and over the degradation of Bigot by the life which she now knew he led.
Here and there a vacant or overturned chair showed where a guest had fallen in the debauch and been carried off by the valets, who in gorgeous liveries waited on the table.
Have you ever contributed to send missionaries to Madagascar money that was received from people whose business it is to debauch your neighbor's sons and, if possible, degrade his daughters?
Think of the state of mental debauch and disease which must have been passed through, ere such words could be written, and could be popular!
He shows heaven, in order that he may carry debauchinto it; and avails himself of the most sacred and sublime parts of our creed as a vehicle for a scene-painter's skill, or an occasion for a handsome actress to wear a new dress.
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