Whereas this obscene wreck on the bed had nothing whatever left.
He was carrying in his arms an obscene black mass.
Why was she in this strange, incomprehensible town, foreign and inimical to her, watching with agonized glance this cruel, obscene spectacle?
During the remainder of existence this unspeakable horror would lift its obscene form between them.
And if obscene, why would he want to leave them when the obscene seemed so comfortable to him despite his moral objections of himself for it being such.
It seemed obscene despite the fact that it was merely the drinking of water.
Was the obscene truly so, he posited to himself, or was it just oversensitivity about doing something, or being associated with others who were doing something not considered the norm?
If obscene, was it not even more obscene that this, which was an inception of all, was all there was?
He fed it unto her in what Nawin, ostensibly a neutral third party, was inclined to think of as an obscene gesture.
The frightful licentiousness and obscene orgies of the reigning pontiff, and of his family and court, which speedily followed, formed a hideous practical commentary upon this text.
On the way home, I passed a street corner where boys a few years younger than myself were loitering inobscene play.
All the obscene things which the lowest scum of humanity can pick up in the course of living years in the gutter, he spat out at Mr. Levi.
And he tapped his monstrous paunch, whence came a sonorous echo as the commentary to his obscene speech.
There in the middle of the troupe obscene The proud and peerless beauty of my Queen!
Then commences the vociferous recitation of that series of obscene songs and ballads, which characterises the pilgrimage all along.
During the backward journey, no obscene songs or expressions are indulged in.
This state of suspense was horrible, so with one accord we drove the obscene creatures from their perch, and stepping forward, looked into the rank tuft.
The indications of abuse of the sexual organs are loss of nervous energy, dullness of the mental faculties, and delight in obscene stories.
Obscene literature, or books written for the express purpose of exciting or intensifying sexual desires in the young, goads to an illicit gratification of the passions, and ruins the moral and physical nature.
It is useless to begin medical treatment while the patient continues to read exciting, amorous stories and obscene books, which are suggestive of lewd thoughts.
Lord Campbell, advocating in Parliament the Act against obscene literature which bears his name, laid down very clearly his view of what should, legally, be an obscene work.
It is not vulgarly coarse and offensive as is so much of the Bible, but it is, according to the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice, a very obscene poem.
We now come to a chapter that is obscene from beginning to end, and may, I think, almost claim the palm of foulness.
Photographs of those pictures, uncoloured, and reduced in size, areobscene publications, and are seized as such by the police.
Most decidedly it does, and if prosecuted as an obscene book, it must necessarily be condemned, if the law is justly administered.
This, then, is the shield of the clergy; the Bible is itself so obscene that Christians fear to prosecute priests who circulate obscenity.
Does the Bible come within the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as toobscene literature?
Can anyone go through all these passages and have any doubt that the Bible--supposing it to be unprotected by statute--is indictable as an obscene book under the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice?
This favour, however, he lost in 1523 by writing a set of obscene sonnets, to accompany an equally immoral series of drawings by the great painter, Giulio Romano.
The old sacrificial hymns were probably obscene and certainly nonsensical, and the substitution for them of the psalms, and of lections of the prophets and New Testament, was an enormous gain.
There are someobscene passages also in these tales (of the Indians) but not more than might be expected from a people yet in a perfect state of nature as to their mental powers, to our eternal shame and scandal.
There ares ome obscene passages also in these tales (of the indians) but not more than might be expected from a people yet in a perfect state of nature, as to their mental Powers, to our eternal shame & scandal.
Here follows a train of stories, the most indecent and shameful and sometimes obscene that one can well imagine.
For all obscene things batten on darkness, and light is fatal to them.
It was as if a whole tribe of noxious and obscene reptiles were swarming out of the earth which had suddenly swallowed him.
In later times the term employed for obscene painting seems to have been Rhyparographia.
After Parrhasios, side by side with the grander style had developed a species of cabinet-painting which seems to have been devoted especially to obscenesubjects (Pornographia).
If they are not made the theme of obscene lampoons they may count themselves fortunate.
The soldiers’ lodge when not in session is the very theater of amusement and gaming by the chiefs and soldiers, all sorts of jokes are passed, and obscene stories told.
Taciturnity may in some degree arise from their want of sufficient topics of conversation, as when obscenesubjects are introduced this faculty is laid aside.
The whole of humanity seemed to her unclean as she thought of theobscene secrets of the senses, of the caresses which debase as they are given and received, and of all the mysteries which surround the attraction of the sexes.
He would certainly not tell obscene stories aloud in public, or knock against ladies without apologizing.
An obscene and horrible spectacle, the mock of her beholders.
The holder of the illuminated address from the Rajah of Puttapongpoo as if, having expectorated the plum-stone, he desired to expectorate also the taste thereof, spat out an obscene sound of contempt and disgust.
