At dawn they would be found stretched in swinish sleep.
I longed to play her the nastiest swinish cad’s trick: to look at her with a sneer, and on the spot where she stood before me to stun her with a tone of voice that only a shopman could use.
That’s a swinish invention, and there was nothing of the sort.
You will take the pain all right and the consequences like a man, but you will never believe that swinish statement you have just made.
He was anxious to get on, to reach his Camberton rooms, where the Sunday forlornness was peace after this swinish atmosphere.
During the whole of this scene Faust speaks no single word, except a curt but polite greeting on entering the Cellar and an appeal to Mephistopheles to take him away from this 'scene of swinish bestiality.
While all books delight in keeping up either the swinish demon of earlier times, or the griffin butcher of the second period, Satan has changed his shape for those who cannot write.
Then came another swinish farce, described by Lancre and Boguet, in which some young and pretty wife would take the Witch's place as Queen of the Sabbath, and submit her body to the vilest handling.
Such mad reveling has been introduced by the evil spirit, and is called a brotherhood, whereas it is rather a debauch and altogether a heathenish, nay, swinish mode of life.
They had eat such a monstrous supper that they were fit afterward for nought but swinish slumber, and the most of them lay where they were, never intending to stir until the morning.
Foremost among the attractions of this show were the performing pig and the show-woman, who drew forth the learning of the "swinish philosopher" admirably.
That he should presume so to treat a man who could master him so easily at any game, and buy and sell him body and soul, and had actually bargained to give him five hundred guineas--the needy, swinish miscreant!
When I thought Dillon had forgot his appointment in his swinish vices, I turned my mind another way.
It was by this means that Noah was reduced to swinish inebriation.
Beside the christian vision of Swedenborg, in which the judaic priest's curse on swinish Greek learning found apotheosis, let us set the vision of a Jewish seer in whom the humanity that spared Nineveh found expression.
The swinish drunkenness in which I had lived for months (this was accompanied by the sense of degradation and the old feeling of conviction of sin) was the last and best, and I could see for myself what it was worth.
The element of discontent is all that elevates his amours above the "swinish trough," which Alfred Austin asserts them to be.
George Meredith made a dichotomy of his readers into "summer flies" and "swinish grunters.
I tell you, this stained rag of a cloak I wear is nearer to what it was first, than that tale will be after swinish mouths have chewed upon it a day.
They also grunt among themselves, without any external cause; but merely to express their swinish sympathy.
Their language is the most copious of that of any quadruped, and, indeed, there is something deeply and indefinably interesting in the swinish race.
The mouth kept jabbering, inanely, and once emitted a half-swinish grunt.
But, as I stood there, it came to me that there was sense and meaning to all those swinish noises.
Do you know that Caesar, true to his swinish propensities, will turn like a hunted boar, when he suspects the least shadow of danger?
The Emperor thoroughly appreciated one who would take trouble off his hands, while at the same time he encouraged his master, by precept and example, in his swinish propensities.
But banish swinishdrunkards out of thine house, which is a vice impairing health, consuming much and makes no show.
And laugh at Nature's wanton mood, Which, thus a swinish thing to flout, Though haply in its gross way good, Hangs such a jewel in its snout.
Right art thou who wouldst rather be A doorkeeper in Love's fair house, Than lead the wretched revelry Where fools at swinish troughs carouse.
They tried to groan and beg for mercy, but forthwith emitted the most awful grunting and squealing that ever came out of swinish throats.
At last, when the swinish uproar resounded through the palace, and when he saw the image of a hog in the marble basin, he thought it best to hasten back to the vessel, and inform the wise Ulysses of these marvelous occurrences.
You must not imagine, however, that the swinish quality had entirely gone out of them.
