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Example sentences for "debauches"

Lexicographically close words:
debauched; debauchee; debauchees; debaucheries; debauchery; debauching; debbil; debbils; debble; debe
  1. Vendome began at last to think about his health, which his debauches had thrown into a very bad state.

  2. The King, who for a long time had been much discontented with La Feuillade for his debauches and his negligence, spoke very strongly and very openly upon this strange forestalling of inheritance.

  3. Think on the lewd Debauches of her Life; Then tell me, if she's fit to be your Wife.

  4. The man who debauches others in order to obtain a high office stands on an evil equality of corruption with the man who debauches others for financial profit; and when hatred is sown the crop which springs up can only be evil.

  5. The immeasurable genius of the elder civilizations of the Orient was there legibly written, and recalled the granite and brick debauches of Egypt and Assyria.

  6. Although these visions were involuntary, and though I did not actually participate in anything relating to them, I could not dare to touch the body of Christ with hands so impure and a mind defiled by such debauches whether real or imaginary.

  7. On visiting the earth, that he may repair the damage caused by the conflagration, Jupiter sees Calisto, and, assuming the form of Diana, he debauches her.

  8. Flying thence, Mercury beholds Herse, the daughter of Cecrops, and debauches her.

  9. In favor of the Florentines, we might plead that these Novelle were accepted as pure fictions--debauches of the fancy, escapades of inventive wit.

  10. Though the Novellieri profess to teach morality by precept, and though some of them prefix prayers to their most impudent debauches of the fancy,[58] it is clear that entertainment was their one sole end in view.

  11. Through those long dark hours wild words that had neither context nor meaning fell from my fevered lips, as periods of imaginary joy were succeeded by hideous debauches of despair.

  12. We all have our little debauches of melancholy.

  13. Your warfare is far more inhuman than ours; slays its tens of thousands to our thousands; starves your children, debauches your women in a way that is unknown with us.

  14. After they had stabled their horses and eaten, followed one of those debauches that occur when men with natural "thirsts" turn loose after a period of deprivation.

  15. Generally the conclusion of his debauches found him broke.

  16. Germinie plunged into these debauches with--what shall I say?

  17. Balzac made also some little debauches with some of his friends at his country-house; and what he wrote to an officer who was then prisoner in Germany, makes it evidently appear that he thought it lawful so to do.

  18. But then you know that I am not now capable of profiting by my perfidy, were I even to gain Miss Temple's compliance, since my debauches and the street-walkers have brought me to order.

  19. But in fact there is no ground whatever to invest these debauches with any recondite meaning.

  20. When he had finished the recital of his debauches and murders they ordered Prelati to be brought to them.

  21. After such debauches the physical suffering is intense and great; but it is little in comparison with the tortures of the mind.

  22. All the shames, all the burning regrets, all the stinging compunctions of conscience I had known on coming out of such debauches before my conversion were almost as joy compared with the misery which preyed upon my heart then.

  23. I delivered my first lecture at Raleigh, the scene of many of my most disgraceful debauches and most lamentable misfortunes.

  24. The sheer animalism of him overflowed in midnight roysterings, in bacchanalian revels, in debauches among the human débris of the tenderloin.

  25. Cases in Court had to be adjourned because of the debauches of lawyers.

  26. Sunday debauches are abuses that call loud for amendment; it is in this pernicious soil the seeds of ruin are first sown.

  27. Not only the hazard of their healths from debauches of both kinds, but the waste of their precious time renders the sending them so far off very hazardous.

  28. This he soon ran through, and (happily for the lady) died by the justice of heaven in a salivation his debauches had obliged him to undergo.


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