The chief part of the "solemnity was managed by a company of lewd strumpets, who ran up and down naked, sometimes dancing, sometimes fighting, or acting the mimic.
Beaumont and Fletcher incorrect, and full Of lewd lines, as he calls them?
This, I warrant, was your lewd interpretation of my innocent meaning.
Each gallant, each swain and lover-- A kiss to the beads that brim in the cup A laugh for the foam spilt over!
But whatever may have been the strength of the forces at his command, it is quite certain that, on this occasion at least, he proved himself more than a match for the "Lewd Liddesdales.
His subjects were not of a lewd nature, but were taken from the lower ranks of life, such as booths of barbers and cobblers, donkeys, eatables, etc.
He wanted no encouragements of this sort to egg him to such proceedings; the hopes of living idly and in the enjoyment of such lewd pleasures as he had addicted himself to, were sufficient to carry him into an affair of this sort.
But after a short stay in London, he unhappily fell into the acquaintance of a lewd woman, who so besotted him that he really intended to marry her, if the regiment's going to Ireland had not prevented it.
He especially recommended to all who spoke to him, to avoid the snares and delusions of lewd women; and at the place of execution delivered the following paper.
The paper delivered by John Smith at the place of execution I was born of honest parents, bred to the sea, and lived honest, 'till I was led aside by lewd women.
In this occupation he might certainly have done well, if he had not fallen into the company of those lewd persons who brought him to his fate.
But he had not been long ere what little education he had was lost, and his morals corrupted by the sight of such lewd scenes as passed often in his master's house.
Wherefore, leaving his mother's house, he abandoned himself to procuring money at any rate to support those lewd pleasures to which he had addicted himself.
Of all the unspeakable calumnies of which the Borgias have been the subject, none is more utterly wanton than this foul exhalation of Guicciardini's lewd invention.
The worst of lewd literature is that it seems to give a sanction to lewdness in the life, and that inexperience takes this effect for reality: that is the danger and the harm, and I think the fact ought not to be blinked.
Now would I fain have answered Oliver that they were but lewd fellows that did dishonour the churches as did he, and that they would yet have their reward.
How will he shrink, when all his lewd allay And wicked mixture shall be purged away!
I was so happy lately, amongst other good graces, that her majesty did tell me of sundry lewd papist beasts that have resorted to Buxton," etc.
Certain lewd bills thrown abroad against the queen's majesty for not assenting to have the matter of succession proved in parliament; and bills also to charge Sir W.
Noah replied, "Because thou art lewd and foolish and dost suspect innocent people.
The raven said, "Why dost thou call me lewd (fornicator)?
The country starves, and they that feed the o'ercharged And surfeited lewd town with her fair dues, By a just judgment strip and starve themselves.
Your ladyship says, that I ought not to have borne her in my sight, after the impudent assistance she gave to his lewd attempts; much less to have left her in her place, and rewarded her.
Faust had left Margaret for thee, and lewd Anacreon had never lost a day on Bathyllus, Sappho would not have pursued In her escape Erinna, no nor Phaon.
If she remains, I shall go--I shall leave the house--I will not stay under the same roof with the lewd creature!
His was not a story to be bandied about by lewdpriests like Padre Diego.
