Italian, now an aged abbess occupying a bare cell and from his lips, despot and voluptuary though he was, might always be expected the right word in the right place.
The frontispiece, which in many editions is wanting, represents an effeminate voluptuarywith a womanish face, dressed half in men’s and half in women’s clothing.
Thus, even if the voluptuary is sometimes a poet and the worldling often an honest man, they both lack reason so entirely that reflection revolts equally against the life of both.
Though it was but little past eleven o'clock, King George the Fourth had already retired to rest,—or rather had been borne away in a senseless state from one of those beastly orgies in which the filthy voluptuary so often indulged.
The cynical voluptuary of Nero's reign, who said that a town of Magna Graecia was inhabited by more gods than men, only used a comic hyperbole to enforce a striking fact.
That Petronius was deeply tainted is only too probable from his associations, although Tacitus implies that he was rather a fastidious voluptuary than a gross debauchee.
The fickle voluptuary sought new pleasures, and the bride so lately exalted to a throne was no longer an object of envy.
Such a jealousy of austerity would appear to me extraordinary in a voluptuary philosopher, from whatever point of view that word may be considered.
Chapelle, the most celebrated voluptuary in Paris, did everything in his power to overcome Ninon's repugnance, but without success.
Though only "half a man" and extremely feeble and delicate, he became a voluptuary according to the ideas of Chapelle, and by devoting himself to the doctrines of Epicurus, he managed to live until eighty years of age.
With arts voluptuary I couple practices joculary; for the deceiving of the senses is one of the pleasures of the senses.
The voluptuary had furnished his chamber with great luxury.
Another, published July 2, is 'A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion.
Enter," said Satan, and the soul of the voluptuary passed in.
But observe the male oriental voluptuary does not himself dance.
Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasures which the most learned voluptuary could suggest.
He was then banqueting in all the luxuries of the English court; and such a voluptuary I never beheld!
A heartless voluptuary of mediocre intelligence, he contrived to wrap himself in what Saint-Simon has called a "terrible majesty.
Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia, had been ever an amiable profligate, a heedless voluptuary obeying no spur but that of his own pleasure, which should drive him now to his destruction.
Manuel had a cousin, Andronicus, who was even more of a voluptuary than he--one whose career as a soldier of fortune and as a heartless roue marks him as the Byzantine Alcibiades.
The voluptuary and adventurer responded to the call, and entered the city to be enthroned, alleging that it was his purpose to deliver the young emperor from evil counsellors.
What a finevoluptuary might Lord Rosebery have been!
The thought of a voluptuary in pain is very terrible.
The Royal voluptuary generally remains young to the last.
A rake without conviction, a voluptuary who sought sensuous pleasures from vicious habit long after they had ceased to be pleasures to him, and yet expiated them with agonies of remorse which made his soul a raging hell.
But to say that Mohammad was a voluptuary is false.
She was convalescent in a week's time, but was ultimately murdered, while in the act of spending, by a voluptuary with whom she afterwards lived.
A thick, striped mattress makes a soft platform on the elephant's broad back, and here the young voluptuarysquats as naturally as on the floor of his room.
Now the apostle may be a voluptuary without much conscience.
The injury to the child would be far less if the voluptuary said frankly "I beat you because I like beating you; and I shall do it whenever I can contrive an excuse for it.
Certain minds are satisfied with the fantasmagoria of their intelligence, whereas the voluptuary finds happiness only in the pleasure of realisation.
Here was a voluptuary seeking for torture and desiring pain after having wallowed in every sensual pleasure.
A voluptuary in love, he professes not that delicacy which refines all its joys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voluptuary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: epicure; gourmet; hedonist; luxurious; profligate; rake; sensualist; swine; voluptuous
