Cromwell became respectable by comparison with the sensual debauchee who sold the dignity of his country for a little present enjoyment and soothed the reproaches of his people with a joke.
King's arms—to become the mistress of that regal debauchee of sixty-four?
We may eventually reach that moral plain where the maledebauchee will be considered a moral outcast; but the time is not yet, and until its advent illicit commerce will continue to be more demoralizing to women than to men.
With La Fontaine the man, it is the sadly familiar French story of debaucheemanners in life and in literary production.
And as he spoke, the debauchee with whom he had betted came up, holding his left hand extended, tapping its palm with the forefinger of the right.
Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
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Take care of your slumber, for a debauchee who repents too late is like a ship that leaks: it can neither return to land nor continue on its course; the winds can with difficulty move it, the ocean yawns for it, it careens and disappears.
All men marvelled that the Government of India allowed such a debauchee and wastrel to remain on the gadi.
The fat debauchee stared at him uncomprehendingly for a few moments.
No alternative was left but to unite her young person with the remains of some broken-down debauchee of the nobility.
Indolence had raised him to fame, as energy raises others, and he was reckoned not a debauchee and spendthrift, like most of those who squander their substance, but a man of refined luxury.
There is nothing definitely to bring this ingenious and brilliant debauchee into connexion with the Petronius Arbiter of the Satyricon.
But the Empress Eudocia Ingerina avenged the unfortunate princess in a manner more pardonable in the mistress of a besotteddebauchee than in the wife of an emperor.
Beware of love, for it is worse than disease for a debauchee and it is ridiculous.
The debauchee puts a good face on the matter and forces himself to affect indifference; but the statue asks for his hand, and when he has extended it he feels himself seized by a mortal chill and falls in convulsions.
Although I was no longer a debauchee it came to pass that my body suddenly remembered that it had been.
Thus this singular sprig of nobility drifted through his kaleidoscopic life, changing his religion as lightly as he changed from priest to ploughman, or from debauchee to Armenian storyteller.
The Duke of Hamilton, while still young, had won for himself a very unenviable notoriety as a debauchee in an age of profligacy.
Unlike his clean-living forefathers, he was famous as a debauchee in a dissolute age.
The ambitious, the avaricious, and the debauchee sedulously lay aside speculations too feeble to counterbalance their diverse passions.
Intrust that debauchee Scaeva with the custody of his ancient mother; his pious hand will commit no outrage.
When I bid you not be a miser, I do not order you to become a debauchee or a prodigal.
The last thing the bloated debauchee wished was to enter a convent.
But Elizabeth soon expended her paroxysm of energy, and surrendered herself to luxury and to sensual indulgence unsurpassed by any debauchee who ever occupied a throne.
King, and the Prince answered, "I have heard tell this tale of The Debauchee and the Three-Year-Old Child.
Or is it not more likely to have been young Sextus, that Roman debauchee who paints his face, lisps in speaking, and wears sleeves in the fashion of the Persians?
Down to the very tips of his fingers the unhappy debauchee is 'fuddled.
He was the perfect type of the intellectual debauchee of the Russian-Jewish colony.