But these circumstances are innocent compared with the obscene practices when the lights are put out; indiscriminate debauchery being then the order of the night.
They indulge, too, in the debauchery of the South: the witches having offspring from their intercourse with the demons, who intermarry and produce a mongrel breed of toads and serpents.
The crudest forms of debauchery receive the most refined and highly finished treatment in poems which are as remarkable for their wit as for their cynicism.
Neither if a cotton-manufactory were in the neighbourhood, could her parents send her to such a nursery of debauchery and vice.
By this means we see drunkenness and debauchery gradually disappear; for what right could that man have to assistance from the common fund who has brought disease and want of employment upon himself by his own vicious habits?
Because his father, endowed with a powerful constitution, abused it by debauchery and excess.
Plenty of rice-beer is brought, and a scene of debauchery takes place in which all restraint is put aside.
The life has great attractions for them, for on carnival days and other days of feasting and debauchery they imitate the Indian in all things, their company being frequently lawless and unruly.
They are wayward, lightminded and inclined to debauchery but have intelligence and veracity; the women and girls, pretty, but idle from want of occupation in the minor work of the sex.
Women were treated infamously, indescribable scenes of debaucherytaking place, while all the possessions of the unfortunates were wilfully wasted and destroyed.
The Acts which had initiated so much good, were allowed to expire, discouragement to the use of spirits ceased, grocers were again allowed to dispense the drug to women and families, and debauchery rioted and revelled as before.
Not that intemperance was a new plant of Saxon setting, for we have already found that the seed sown of Roman debauchery was beginning to yield the rank crop of excess in every grade of society.
He talked of the great noble's younger life, of his debauchery and hardness.
Strange to say, he had little pleasure in the debauchery of successful crime, and was too good-natured to like violence.
Debauchery was none the less pleasing to him, but it had to be debauchery on a huge scale: the feast of Trimalco or the nuptials of Gamacho.
He came of sound English stock, of a family who would not have regarded drunkenness and debauchery as "sowing wild oats," but recoiled from the thought of them with horror.
False opinions falsely held and intolerantly maintained were the debauchery that sharpened the lines of his face, and converted his voice into a bark.
In consequence of this debauchery dice-playing, which had doubtless long been in use among the Romans, reached such proportions that it was necessary for legislation to interfere.
The Roman citizen or farmer stood in much the same relation to the refined revelry and debauchery of Athens, as the German of a provincial town to the mysteries of the Palais Royal.
It is said I wink at precocious debauchery among my children with the view of unnerving and stupefying them.
Finally, Paris presents a nameless mixture of fanaticism, debauchery and ferocity.
Returning once more to Rome, he abandoned himself to a career of debaucheryand extravagance.
Piero de' Riari was created a Cardinal when a spoilt boy, and became, as a man, infamous for his debauchery and villainy.
Between fifteen and eighteen we have few records of Cosimo's life and no hint as to where he was during the terrible years of tyranny and debauchery in Florence.
In this last period, the coarse debauchery of the earlier periods is added to the refined.
But no sooner were they out of sight of the palace than they hurried to the scenes of dissipation, all endeavouring, in the debauchery and excesses so natural to them, to forget their unnatural affectation and hypocrisy.
Even as he was forgiven the waste and debauchery which had disgraced him, this slave is quickly freed from his obligation.
The interdicts, as an institution, had ceased to be respected, and the priesthood itself began openly to sink itself in debauchery and to play fast and loose with the rites of the Church.
But all the disgusting forms of vice, debauchery and drunkenness, are assorted together in their own place.
Amidst such a multitude, composed in a great measure of the low people of all nations, there must of course be much debauchery and low vice.
