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Example sentences for "dissipations"

Lexicographically close words:
dissipate; dissipated; dissipates; dissipating; dissipation; dissociate; dissociated; dissociates; dissociating; dissociation
  1. Piers, who, in less than two months, was again sharing the dissipations of his sovereign.

  2. The rumour, or the reality of conspiracies against the royal family, did not prevent Charles from throwing himself into the pleasures, or rather the dissipations for which his Court was remarkable.

  3. He obeyed no more vicious dictates when he wandered into the dissipations of his time, than the exhilarating voices of youth and health.

  4. I loved to steep her amidst the dissipations and luxury of this abandoned city.

  5. The place, real or apparent, of Il Signor Romualdo's sojourn with his beloved is Venice, where they inhabit a gorgeous palace, and where Romuald enters into all the follies and dissipations of the place.

  6. The young cavalier, the coxcomb, the debauchee, mocked the priest; the priest held the dissipations of the gallant in horror.

  7. After her reappearance at Paris her career became a long series of dissipations and unprecedented extravagances.

  8. Both, weary of the dissipations of society and its flatteries, sought a pure and lofty friendship, spiritual and affectionate, with no improper intimacy.

  9. The poor young wife was between two fires, the extravagance and wild dissipations of her husband and the rigid discipline and orthodoxy of her mother.

  10. The intrigues and dissipations of his former life disappeared before the higher, nobler love of which Charles was incapable.

  11. At this rate his occupations must have rather been those of a Don Giovanni than of a man of studious habits and feeble health, who found it hard enough to keep pace with the milder dissipations of the social circle.

  12. Nor do I understand how I have borne it so long," said Cashel; "its dissipations weary, its deceits provoke me.

  13. He passed his youth at Oxford, vacillating between the wildest dissipations and the most brilliant triumphs.

  14. I now entered into all the dissipations of raw manhood, the outward ugliness and inward emptiness of which make me marvel to this day.

  15. One hears unpleasant stories of medical students, their gross dissipations and coarse manners.

  16. Even his debaucheries had an alloy of discomfort that does not customarily mingle in the dissipations of the rich.

  17. He is going back to town on Tuesday to plunge into the dissipations of the Metropolis.

  18. You see if young men from the country will go plunging into the dissipations of the metropolis nemesis follows.

  19. The dissipations of a soldier under the Empire must, of course, be greater than those of young men who are looked after by their fathers.

  20. The king's dissipations and expenses, throughout his whole reign, according to the same author, had amounted only to about nine hundred and forty thousand marks, p.

  21. It was easy to see that his taste for drawing or for chess were the only dissipations he permitted himself to indulge.

  22. She a lively, volatile girl, bursting with desire to see and be seen, fresh from the restraint of a convent at Bruges, and anxious to mix in all the pleasures and dissipations of the world.

  23. During the period of his London and Parisian dissipations his poor mother did not venture to remonstrate with her young prodigal, but shut her eyes, not daring to open them on his wild courses.

  24. But who knows how he may have plunged into the dissipations of Paris after office hours?

  25. Mr. Distin told me that you turned your back upon all the dissipations and pleasures of Paris, that you were a man of one idea, working only for one end--to make a great fortune.

  26. After a fortnight's slaughter of the pheasants, there was a lull in the dissipations of Arden Court.

  27. Ralph being again alone in the world, as it were, entered into all the wild dissipations of Vienna and Paris, which ended in his ruin; and he returned to England with only a five pound note between him and beggary.


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