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Example sentences for "lascivious"

Lexicographically close words:
lascar; lascia; lasciato; lasciuious; lasciva; lasciviousness; laser; lasers; lash; lashed
  1. They surpass the most lascivious kisses in sweetness; I feel a thrill of delight pass up my rectum as I listen to them.

  2. Agathon, in accordance with his character, voluptuousness, is represented as preferring the effeminate music and lascivious dances of Asia.

  3. This sort of poetry appeared under the name of satire, because of its variety; and this satire was adorned with compositions of music, and with dances; but lascivious postures were banished from it.

  4. VOLT: May her feignings Not take your wisdoms: but this day she baited A stranger, a grave knight, with her loose eyes, And more lascivious kisses.

  5. The lascivious scenes of the southern country are not enacted, at least to the same extent, in Hindostan proper, where the interest of the English government has been directed against immorality.

  6. The dances are always immodest, often lascivious and grossly indecent.

  7. They sing licentious songs in an amorous tone, dance in a lascivious measure, dress in a peculiarly fascinating manner, and seduce by the very expression of their countenances.

  8. The dancing girls are generally admitted to be of easy virtue, but even they preserve decorum in their manners, and dress with great decency, although their public performances are of a lascivious nature.

  9. They wallow in the bed of riches and wealth, and make their alms the coverlet to conceal their loose and lascivious lives.

  10. Indecency and lewdness are their characteristics; and even now, though accustomed to clothing, it is not uncommon for them to strip themselves, and dance in a lascivious manner at their festivals.

  11. Lascivious frescoes and lewd sculptures, such as would be seized in any modern country by the police, filled the halls of the most virtuous Roman citizens and nobles.

  12. Am I made Bawd to your lascivious meetings?

  13. But if, extended along the winding shore, you shall delight the cormorants as a dainty prey, a lascivious he-goat and an ewe-lamb shall be sacrificed to the Tempests.

  14. The cruel mother of the Cupids, and the son of the Theban Gemele, and lascivious ease, command me to give back my mind to its deserted loves.

  15. I would none the less bear upon my naked flesh this infamous robe woven by one adulterous and lascivious glance.

  16. A lascivious dance of the old Greek comedy.

  17. Quartilla applied a curious eye to a chink, purposely made, watching their childish dalliance with lascivious attention.

  18. The griotes accompany the barbaric songs of their husbands with lascivious dances, and form a grotesque parody on the nautch girls of India and the almes of Egypt.

  19. For what's this Edward but a belly god, A tender and lascivious wantoness, That thother day was almost dead for love?

  20. A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba.

  21. How much more would this be the case with a virgin, into whose breast there never crept the least lascivious desire which could affect the body?

  22. I would demonstrate the superiority of my reserve to your indiscretion, seeing that I, while handling themes lascivious and immodest, use language comely and decorous, speak in terms beyond reproach and inoffensive to chaste ears.

  23. Here is a sample of his style taken from a solo by one of the nymphs in "Euridice": [Musical Notation] Caccini also showed that he was not averse to the lascivious allurements of two female voices moving in elementary harmonies.

  24. The Australians leap, advance suddenly, then fall back with threatening or lascivious gestures, as the case may be (Fig.

  25. D'Enjoy, it is an olfactory gesture derived from the sensations of nutrition, as the European kiss on the lips is derived from the lascivious bite.

  26. And, if my virgins shall hereafter be Lascivious given, I will send for thee.

  27. Sure, if lascivious I had been so jolly, I might have met with many men more able, Before I did invest myself with sable.

  28. Often has the sensible Catholic blushed amidst his devotions, and I have seen chapels surrounded by pictures of lascivious attitudes, and the obsolete amours of saints revived by the pencil of some Aretine.

  29. It can easily be imagined that this extraordinary adventure corrupted Frank Etheridge's mind, and his madly lascivious temperament is no longer a matter of surprise to the reader.

  30. She was a pretty, plump woman, every feature betraying an intensely lascivious temperament.

  31. She was then left to suffer the agonies of unsatisfied desire, while we enacted all the most lascivious things we could think of in her sight.

  32. Such raptures are too Lascivious for Joan of Naples.

  33. O, I am glad I am so well near rid Of my earth's plague and my lascivious dame.

  34. Lascivious and intemperate he is: The wrong of Daphne is a well-known tale.

  35. O, how are all his princely virtues stain'd With lust abhorred and lascivious heat Which, kindling first to fire, now in a flame, Shows to the whole world clearly his foul shame.

  36. As a contrast to his over-sweet and cloying ideal of lascivious grace, Marino counterposes extravagant forms of ugliness.

  37. Tasso himself laid great stress upon his want of absolute loyalty, upon some lascivious compositions, and lastly upon his supposed heresies.

  38. Next follow regulations concerning books containing lascivious or obscene matter, which are to be rigidly suppressed.

  39. Only watchful eyes and that rare thing, conscience applied to memory, can pluck working notions from the gay and lascivious vegetation of the mind, or learn to prefer Cinderella to her impudent sisters.

  40. Lascivious and pious works, when beauty has touched them, cease to give out what is wilful and disquieting in their subject and become altogether intellectual and sublime.

  41. He did not see them, but he could divine the lascivious passion of the dance from the quiver of all those women's necks, which swayed as beneath a great gust of wind.

  42. That time it must have been the frantic, lascivious gallop that Paris whispered about, for Pierre saw the rows of necks and heads, now fair, now dark, wave and quiver as beneath a violent wind.


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