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Example sentences for "wantoning"

Lexicographically close words:
wantin; wanting; wantit; wanton; wantoned; wantonly; wantonness; wantons; wants; wantyng
  1. There was a mind here, mind a-wantoning At ease of undisputed mastery Over the body's brood, those appetites.

  2. Judge Blackstone says that the Game Law was then wantoning in its highest vigour; what, then, would he have said, if any one had proposed to make it felony to resist a gamekeeper?

  3. This place stands at the north-eastern limit of Monmouthshire, in an agreeable undulating valley, diversified with wood and pasture, and beautifully accompanied by the meandering Monnow, here wantoning its most fantastic course.

  4. A yellow and red butterfly flickered around in the air, as if one of the tiger-lilies there by the porch had taken wings and was wantoning about in the wind.

  5. Bring in thy train the vengeful boy, And Graces (while their robes loose flow Gives glances of a breast of snow;) Wantoning in their thoughtless joy.

  6. All rude winds were hushed to rest; Only the enamoured south, Wantoning round her swan-like breast-- The silken folds of her azure vest Kissed with its fragrant mouth.

  7. Marry, seemeth it to thee thou hast not enough to do at home, that thou must go wantoning it in other folk's preserves?

  8. Wantoning like a harlot, thou hast entered a wicked and abominable state of wedlock, embracing with incestuous bosom thy husband's slayer, and wheedling with filthy lures of blandishment him who had slain the father of thy son.


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