There were enthusiastic praises of novels in which the course of Lewdnesswas followed through the ages: Rome, Alexandria, Byzantium, the Italian and French Renaissance, the Age of Greatness .
As to important Mischief shall incline; I'll make him long some ancient Church to fire, And fear no Lewdness they're call'd to by Wine.
They conduct the unconscious victim of feelings that appear divine, into a state of life at which the world stands aghast; fanaticism is always united with either excessive lewdness or desperate asceticism" (Essays).
The brazen lewdnessof medieval Christianity has been driven into privacy.
It did carry him to commit lewdness with her, murder upon the body of Uriah, and to abundance of wicked dissimulation; which are things, I say, that have direct tendency to quench and destroy all fear of God in the soul.
The lewdnessof the Vestal Virgins, which had been overlooked by his father and brother, he punished severely, but in different ways; viz.
Afterwards he received tidings that his wife Julia had been condemned for her lewdness and adultery, and that a bill of divorce had been sent to her in his name, by the authority of Augustus.
He also cut off Cneius Pompey, the husband of his eldest daughter; and Lucius Silanus, who was betrothed to the younger Pompey, was stabbed in the act of unnatural lewdness with a favourite paramour.
The two Julias, his daughter and grand-daughter, abandoned themselves to such courses of lewdness and debauchery, that he banished them both.
Like his thy thoughts are true, thy language clean Even lewdness is made moral in thy scene.
I pass the peccadilloes of their time; Nothing but openlewdness was a crime.
Lewdness was preferable to purity; it was easier had.
I mounted her immediately, it was impossible to withstand her randy impetuousity; contagious lewdness coursed through my veins.
In my lewdness I forgot everything but the pleasure of speaking to the girls.
When I was once lanced, I was so strong, so lewd, that I am sure I communicated my lewdness to them by some subtle magnetism, even before I spoke.
One biggish woman attracted my notice by her magnificent white teeth; looking at her short petticoats, and thick legs, lewdness increased to a cock-stand.
There was a mixture of fun, audacity, curiosity and lewdness on that girl's face.
Lewdness had seized us all, the women's eyes were brilliant with voluptuous desire.
When I had a fit of extra lewdnessshe got me other women.
There, I take it, They may, cum privilegio, wear away The lag end of their lewdness and be laugh'd at.
Woman stood forth before him beautiful, But mocking heaven with a shameless brow, Wearing foul lewdness like a victor's crown, And dashing virtue's elixir away.
Maidens rejoiced in their shame, And fancied their lewdness devotion, Banishing thought from their bosoms, And making them giddy with passion.
They turned in disgust 'from the lewdness of our classical mythology, and denounced as an unpardonable blasphemy all connection between the impure Olympian Jove and the Most High God.
To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
Defn: Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
Can Ladies really dislike Lewd Discourse in Conversation, and yet like to see Lewdness represented in all the Dresses that can vitiate the Imagination, and fasten upon the Memory?
I have not permitted myself any lewdness or abusive word in the house of veracity.
Their man-eating gods do not eat, and their lewdnessis guarded by virgin priestesses and by a goddess with an innocent face.
Juvenal, in his Sixth Satire, paints a horrible picture of social depravity when he describes the lewdness of Messalina, the wife of Claudius I.
But in spite of the noble matches that had been made for her, her lewdness and debaucheries became so notorious that Augustus was compelled to banish her from Rome.
The emperor Augustus banished his granddaughter Julia on account of her lewdness and licentiousness, as he had done in the case of his daughter, Julia.
What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you?
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field.
It is unquestionably possible that in that way lewdness can be set aside and thus corrupting effect on character can be prevented.
And do they know, or will they not believe, that the road to lewdness and impiety, to ruin and beggary, lies through these scenes of dangerous diversion?
However, the emperor drove himself to such a frenzy of lewdness that he asked the physicians to contrive a woman's vagina in his person by means of an incision, and held out to them the hope of great pay for this achievement.
They would not cease their rebellious attitude until Sardanapalus, with Alexander, visited the camp; and he poured out his supplications and under compulsion gave up such of his companions in lewdness as the soldiers demanded.
