| 单词 | wantonness |
| 例句 | “Don’t you ever come back to this jail, Dacus. Don’t you ever come near me,” Palmer spat in the half light of the anteroom, a wantonness twisting his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered how she had dared such wantonness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He felt certain that O’Brien was about to twist the dial out of sheer wantonness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Flung from this earth by my own wantonness!” she cried just as her husband dashed back home, shouting, “Thief! Life- stealing wife!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan was made feverish by sex, and trembled afterward, praying aloud and blaming me for my wantonness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Acts of wantonness were not what doomed the shindig, however. A "House of the Dragon" wedding celebration turns into a crime scene, mainly due to the dancing 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Depending on your perspective, the movies have been agents of wantonness and amorality or upholders of old-fashioned, even outmoded values. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z The artist, the intellectual and the Jew are all punished, for wantonness, weakness and naïveté, and pushed into extreme states of moral compromise. Movie Review: ‘Generation War’ Adds a Glow to a German Era 2014-01-14T22:36:47Z “They bring vices, wantonness, the scourge of elixir addiction, the worship of wanton gods,” booms one of the speakers at the Burguish parliament, earning him thunderous applause. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “This painting is of an unspeakable cruelty which is representative of the times in which we live, times of wantonness,” said the 49-year-old. Banksy's subversive art draws tourists and locals in Paris 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The wantonness of the crime led to media coverage. Kermit Alexander walks into 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' to explore murders of his relatives 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z She had not matured, but regressed into that vague eligible debutante -- or her mother -- that she once infused with indolent wantonness, half asleep from being stared at. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z Asparagus with anchoïade The nutty, garlicky sauce is the essence of culinary wantonness. The weekend cook: two great ways with asparagus – recipes 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z His merciless violence is all the more disturbing because he views wantonness as his privilege and part of a social order. '13 Assassins': Shocks set the stage for an electric, emotional samurai battle 2011-05-19T19:57:05Z Mary is a timid church mouse type with wantonness bubbling behind her swivelling eyes. Grace Dent's world of lather 2010-06-25T23:10:00Z A film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle once wrote that she “beautifully balances innocence and wantonness” and, at 33, she still has that curious ability to be both womanly and childlike. Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z But he’d probably earn accolades for his virility instead of attacks for his wantonness along the way. Opinion | Katie Hill’s story leaves America in knots 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The scale and sheer wantonness of DuPont's level of duplicity, however, may be a new low. The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The young quails are only half-grown; but they run about in very wantonness in all directions. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z It had just been a piece of imbecile wantonness. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z The ascending smoke and flames of the burning dwellings increased the ferocity of the men, and acts were committed, from mere wantonness, disgraceful both to the soldiers and their commanders. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z Who were the marauders, these burglars that left their booty behind them; these housebreakers that not merely broke into a house, but spoiled nearly everything in it out of sheer wantonness? The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z They were M. le Marquis' favourite hounds, killed in pure wantonness. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z On other days a mad spirit of wild wantonness seemed to possess the boy. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Ye are brave Souldiers; keep your wantonness, A winter will come on to shake this wilfulness. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject 2012-03-26T02:00:33.817Z A Calf, full of play and wantonness, seeing the Ox at plough, could not forbear insulting him. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z And lonely and ill, dependent on her for everything, the woman had lost much of her dread of the girl; though now and again, in sheer wantonness, Bess would play with her fears. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z But they go astray, each after his own devices,—some vainly striving after reputation, others turning aside after gain excessively, others after riotous living and wantonness. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z So lost to every sense of decency That, in mere wantonness or brainless sloth, They obstinately suck forbidden thumbs! Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z In the more lovely scenes of the poem he was not equally happy; for, "instead of repose and cheerfulness, his female figures had a degree of wantonness bordering somewhat upon voluptuousness." The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z A certain Shepherd's Boy kept his Sheep upon a common, and, in sport and wantonness, would often cry out, The Wolf! ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Lights as of the breaking Day Tremble with iridescent play, But now swiftly upward going, Evanescent colours showing, In some nook their beams concealing, Nor their wantonness revealing. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Both are sheer waste and wantonness,—the most foolish and wicked things in the whole list of forbidden sins. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z There was a dignity in her face as she stood there beside her child which made the others feel suddenly conscious of the wantonness of further intrusion. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z Men's lusts, like house-dogs, still the house distress With clamour, barking for mere wantonness; Foxes are they, and sleep the sleep of hares; Crafty as wolves, as tigers pitiless. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It has the true stamp of the heroic time, of its cruelty and wantonness as of its strength and beauty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Forgive, then, most Reverend Sir, the Muse hastening into the presence of her Apollo, and exulting in the wantonness of earliest youth. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z He was the leader and the idol of a band of youths of his own age, who passed the days and nights in sports and wantonness. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z To take life without sufficient cause, from mere wantonness or caprice, subjected him to punishment and removal from office. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z But let everyone know for certain, unless he diminish his fleshly lusts and wantonness, that he holds not his christianity with right observance. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z The cruelty of the murder was bad enough; but the wantonness of destroying so perfect a machine, as he found Persis to be, was more wicked in his eyes. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Some English people who were driving through a country full of these apes in the East Indies, wished, out of sheer wantonness, to have one shot. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z A nation may pile up wealth, and multiply a hundredfold the machinery of wealth production, and only be increasing luxury and wantonness and graft. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Mountains and rivers, seas and islands, rocks, forests, and plains, thrown together in perfect wantonness, and yet in the most perfect harmony, and every feature in the expanded landscape consecrated by the richest associations. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z Flora had invented, not a new wantonness, but a new grace. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Rash Comparisons.—If rash comparisons are not proofs of the wantonness of the writer, they are proofs of the exhaustion of his imagination. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Psyche, the earthborn, to be prized above The heavenly Graces by the God of love, And worshipt by his wantonness untold! The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z The licence and wantonness of these Milanese scandalised even the lax Florentines, and largely added to the growing corruption of the city. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z I have not been sporting in the mere wantonness of assertion. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Perhaps she guessed a little, or it was done out of wantonness, for she laid her white-gloved hand upon his arm and leaned forward a trifle. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z The streets were littered with household gear that had been dragged in wantonness from despoiled homes. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Strife and wantonness creep in, and the monks are all but lost, when a peasant who has involuntarily overheard a conclave of devils discussing Ruus, discloses his true nature. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z He thought that she had played with him and fooled him in sheer wantonness, and he wished to crush her pride, her youth, her gaiety as she had broken his life and his honour. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Yes, many heads he struck off from mere wantonness, and was moreover so spiteful as to lift them up from the ground and show to the public that they were hollow inside. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Who, but a prodigal in wantonness, Would waste his patrimony for swine's food? Sonnets and Other Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:08.503Z The idlers who had instigated the attack in a spirit of wantonness had no stomach for fighting, and were struggling backward through the press, seeking a safe distance. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z And although every one must strive to do without medicine, still he must not condemn it; he should scorn rather the wantonness which throws itself on the mercy of medicine. Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes 2011-08-29T02:01:12.927Z But the war—and also the imbecile wantonness of the war-masters—consumed these flocks too, so that few are left. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z At times when the obligato goat's laugh bleated in among the melodious pangs, I caught a glimpse in the background of a crowd of small women-figures who nodded their odious heads with wicked wantonness. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Notwithstanding the humane exertions of the Duke—owing to the sanguinary revenge of Clavers in particular—the slaughter after the battle, in what may be termed the wantonness of cruelty, was very great indeed. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z He was now below the city's "dead-line" where, in segregated wantonness, vice and license unrolled their audacities fearless of the complaisant police regulations. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z The word is applied to the friskiness or wantonness of animals, and it is very easy to understand its application. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z Ladies’ trunks had been rifled, and their dresses torn to pieces in mere wantonness. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z But you will see more clearly; you will perceive it is not wantonness and wickedness that forces me to separate from those that dwell in peace. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z He exasperates when he cuts off your half-grown apples and pears in sheer wantonness, injuring you and profiting himself only in the pleasure of seeing and hearing them fall. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Was this wonderful creature some brilliant siren luring him to destruction for very wantonness, or in the interest of others? The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Begotten among the wanton joys of a frivolous court, nourished at the breast of a wanton woman, your whole breeding has been wantonness. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z I say it not in wantonness, or recklessness, nor in any proud spirit of defiance, nor in any hard spirit of denial, nor in outrage, nor wilful scepticism, nor simulated disbelief. The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.300Z Then I wandered all over the boat, from the upper deck and the cabin down to the hold, in the mere wantonness of liberty. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z To refuse to answer my intrusive questions, or even to acknowledge that college days were costly, is not in itself evidence of wantonness. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z "That is his monkey-faced sister," thought the countess, and nodded in very wantonness. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z When roofs blaze because a reckless hand has dashed a torch therein in the very wantonness of destruction. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Methinks nobody should be sad but I: Yet, I remember, when I was in France, Young gentlemen would be as sad as night, Only for wantonness. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Pallas, therefore, is wrong to express surprise at the fact that the Kalmuck hell provides no punishment for the sin of wantonness. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z You shall find Infidelity mask'd in a Gown and Cassock; and wantonness and immodesty under a blushing Countenance. The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) 2011-06-23T02:00:28.787Z Terrified at this speech, Wilhelm felt still more embarrassed, as the old man proceeded to vituperate her fickleness and wantonness. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z More swiftly did laughter and weeping, death and drollery, love and wantonness, spring over into each other; moral poison makes the tongue as light as physical makes it heavy. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z The rapid motion of the vessels, too, added to this buoyancy of feeling, the Pinta and Ni�a passing and repassing the admiral, as it might be in pure wantonness. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z But nowhere else were such felon strokes dealt in pure wantonness of heart as in the early numbers of Blackwood. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Skelton was, however, probably more gratified by his own Skeltonical style, moulding it with the wantonness of power on whatever theme, comic or serious. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Instead of wantonness, there is deep pathos in the old man’s perseverance under unfamiliar conditions, and there can only be joy at his final success. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Thirdly, poetry has been called the nurse of abuse, that is to say, poetry misuses and debases the mind of man by turning it to wantonness and by making it unmartial and effeminate. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z In sheer wantonness, I threw a snowball at a solemn heron, who stood in a place where the ice had been broken, and laughed to see him start and flap sulkily away. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Destroy the wantonness of the infernal villain, prevent the suggestions of my perverted heart, that my holy resolution may not be hindered or entirely destroyed. The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] 2011-04-02T02:00:09.993Z As usual on such occasions, there is a great waste of life, many perishing in defence of their homes or even through sheer wantonness, besides those carried away captives. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z It was an act of sheer wantonness, or for sport, just as a thoughtless boy might fire at a bird to see whether he could kill it. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z He has not been inside the enclosure's quiet precincts since the night of that parting, whose bitterness he has now come, in the wantonness of his new joy, purposely to revive. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z She said it still giggling, with the wayward insolence of a spoiled child, not consciously cruel, who for very wantonness pulls a beetle to pieces. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Rank abundance breeds In gross and pampered cities, sloth and lust And wantonness and gluttonous excess. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Not only was the quiet of the village of Inglewood sometimes disturbed by drunken rows, but many little acts of mischief were committed, not from any particular spite, but in the mere wantonness of drunkenness. Christmas Stories 2011-02-27T03:00:31.413Z Was there not a wantonness in shattering such a comfortable hedonism in this cruel, meaningless, irresponsible way? Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z It was the very wantonness of woe that swept over my heart, whelming it with terrible desolation! The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z If such wantonness be permitted in the Sacred Scriptures, it is small wonder if one find there anything one please, even a hundred sacraments. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z As for Quentin Charter rushing immediately to the woman of lawless attractions, because he had not received the hoped-for note at the Granville—in this appeared a wantonness almost beyond belief. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Within the tropics, when the soil is good, vegetation runs riot in very wantonness; and so it did here. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z With Browning's Caliban, in his meditations upon Setebos, that god whom he conceived in his own image, the recklessness of Nature is mockery engendered half in spite, half in mere wantonness. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z One more kick of frolicsome wantonness; and the table-slips flew to left and right and the diamonds lay glittering scattered among the legs of the tables and chairs. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Prithee, is mankind given over to the wantonness of these men, for them to mock and in every way abuse and make of them whatever they please, for filthy lucre's sake? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z It was a piece of boldness on her part that is seldom committed except out of wantonness or—love. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z They seemed to be sporting with the dashing and blinding waves and the fury of the gale, in very wantonness, as though they would defy the elements. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z They did not do so out of any feeling of wantonness. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z So on Monday, Ford will reveal what company officials have called an "extreme makeover," the re-invention of an emblem of boom-time excess and environmental wantonness. Once-dominant Ford Explorer will relaunch with improved fuel efficiency 2010-07-22T04:00:00Z We not only give the devil his own way in his tricks, but we even strengthen him in his wantonness and increase his pranks. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z More than ever, among these unappropriate surroundings, he seemed to represent something almost patriarchal, a forbidding and disapproving spirit sitting in judgment upon some modern and unworthy wantonness. The Hillman Aphrodite Urania was represented in Greek art on a swan, a tortoise or a globe; Aphrodite Pandemos as riding on a goat, symbolical of wantonness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Nor was it out of wantonness either, or the mere love of hunting, though that might have been the principal motive with one or two of the party. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z It means fire control, because it eliminates the wantonness which we now find all over your open range, each man working out his problem and firing the range for various causes. Florida: An Ideal Cattle State For it was done in wantonness, with no regard to proper order and with offence to your neighbor. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z To this end did Simplicissimus run from the service of God into the world, that such a misbirth of Christianity should receive the just reward which he hath deserved for his wantonness! The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim "I know, sir, better than any one how much reputations for immaculate virtue are to be distrusted; they often mask wantonness in women and roguery in men." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 Frequently they were the first to suffer from the demoralization of the villagers: theft and insolent wantonness were willingly practised against those whose indignant looks and solemn admonitions had heretofore overawed them. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. I hope that all the circumstances of my departure will show neither levity, wantonness, nor unseemly purpose? Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. The rabbits were not killed in the mere wantonness of sport. The Wreckers of Sable Island She had mistaken, for what she would have considered a place of wantonness, Heatherley’s Art School. Reveries over Childhood and Youth But this improvement of the occasion which came to him on the part of the fiction-vender was not always done in mere wantonness. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. Next as to the wantonness and indifference with which the murder was perpetrated, I am afraid there is no great improbability in this. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day He began to feel a positive sense of injury against love which had descended with proverbial wantonness to complicate mortal affairs. Plashers Mead A Novel Not even the lion slew His prey in wantonness, nor claimed beyond his due. Satan Absolved We had too good an opinion of Don Juans shrewdness to believe that he was making this lavish expenditure in mere wantonness, and wondered what he could expect to get out of us in return. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. It is for this reason, and not from any feeling of wantonness or disrespect, that the skulls of the dead are thus exposed all over the country. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. "Why, most assuredly I mean about the money," the old gentleman cried, aroused to new indignation by the wantonness of the question. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel There seemed to my eyes a wantonness in the cruelty thus inflicted, and in my heart I inveighed against the ruthless passions of men, and the depravity by which their actions are directed. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience But all I can write will give you no notion of the wantonness of neatness visible in the fields, of the elaborate system of irrigation, and the mathematical precision of the planting. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Helen, soft Helen, is it indeed in thee that the wild and brilliant “lord of wantonness and ease” is to find the regeneration of his life—the rebaptism of his soul? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 In sheer wantonness they tore off great boughs covered with fruit and heaped them on the ground, till soon every tree was as nearly as possible stripped, and they were gorged almost to repletion. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance I lived in Italy at a later period, out of pure wantonness, as a juggler by profession. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine It was left for bands of soldiers on foraging expeditions to kill in mere wantonness. The West Indies and the Spanish Main How but in zigzag wantonness Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?' The Wild Swans at Coole Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, agreed to despise women; Napoleon seemed to view them as engines of pleasure; for Shakespeare they may well have embodied a romantic ideal, qualified by sportive wantonness. The Intelligence of Woman There was that in his reverence's look which seemed to say as much, and the thoughtless wantonness of his action as his fingers fiddled with the gold may not have been entirely without a purpose. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The visors here mentioned bring to mind Hamlet's "God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another; you jig, you amble, you lisp, you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance." Women of England Afterwards, in pure wantonness, the churches and religious buildings were demolished, the cattle killed or driven far away, and the provision grounds devastated, with the result that the invaders were soon starving. The West Indies and the Spanish Main "Then," Saturninus questioned, speaking more to himself than to the envoy, "it is not mere wantonness?" A Captive of the Roman Eagles A thousand torches flame aloof; the songs Of wantonness and blasphemy go up! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 I must say, in his favor, that he does not commit these actions in a spirit of wantonness, but they are a fault of his constitution, deeply implanted in his nature. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace In all the wantonness of children, we tore the fruit in handfuls, and threw it around us. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas God himself, on that wonderful day, preserved the cloister from the wantonness of your misguided sons. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors It is not wantonness that impels us, but the most powerful of all the goddesses--Necessity. A Captive of the Roman Eagles When I was a child I was bashful, I was not given to going to trysts: Since I have come to a wayward age, My wantonness has beguiled me. Ancient Irish Poetry She is from the male only; this is that love which is of youths, and the goddess being older, has nothing of wantonness. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion But then the ruice�or sings out of sheer wantonness, because it cannot help it; and so did she. Eden An Episode "Then," said the speaker, "give orders to the hurricane, that it may not select our fields as the spot for its wantonness, trample down our grain, and shake our fruit-trees." Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors All is not given to every one; but the sublimation of a vigorous animal life, the free range of frolic wantonness, the play of the liveliest of imaginations, were things reserved for him. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels I had no thoughts but for him; and would have given my life to free him from his wantonness. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. “His fine, soft garments, wove with cunning skill, All over, ease and wantonness declare; These with her hand, such subtle toil well taught, For him, in silk and gold, Alcina wrought.” The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Her bright eyes saw the fire she had kindled, and from sheer wantonness she fanned the flame with all the art of which she was mistress. In the Brooding Wild The people were convinced of the error of their ways and turned from wantonness to worship, and everywhere religious feeling revived. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Mother Samuel had hit the nail on the head when she said that the trouble was due to the children's "wantonness." A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 He further remarks: This wantonness of destruction provokes the bitter animadversion of the Spanish writer Martyr, whose enlightened mind respected the vestiges of civilization wherever found. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West No fighting or brawling was to be tolerated, and no glasses or windows broken, or was tapestry to be torn down in wantonness. Old and New London Volume I It was she who had locked his door upon herself and, in her wantonness, as good as thrown away the key. Old Crow She might in the wantonness of her power, stoop to mercy; she never rose to benevolence. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Moreover the tone of the writer's defense makes it evident that others beside Mother Samuel laid the action of the Throckmorton children to "wantonness." A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 They have seen your crimes without protest, and shared in your wantonness. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror I shunned it, lest I should hate my fellow-man, who can, unnecessarily and in pure wantonness, destroy in one hour what he cannot replace in a lifetime. Upon The Tree-Tops We have not been prompted to bring this before Your Worships by a spirit of wantonness, but by a desire after pious, conjugal purity. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli In wantonness you have taken his love and my happiness away—you have played with it and destroyed it. Ellen Middleton—A Tale Mother Samuel herself laid the whole trouble to the children's "wantonness." A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 He was her constant friend up to the time Her wantonness declared itself, and then He left her lonely, as though that punishment Were all a man of mercy could inflict. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts Then into our cup we press One wild kiss of wantonness, And a glance that says not less. Weeds by the Wall Verses But Paul, who is now by common consent preached in many places, is consistent with himself, and pierces them in their princely splendor, voluptuous wantonness, and insatiable avarice. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli From the deep fountains of her eyes there flow'd No lucid streams of holiness and love, But lust and utter wantonness, that fill'd The heart with loathing, fraught with death to Hope. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems It often happens when they are kept after school by themselves that they give the freest rein to their childish wantonness, and commit the wildest pranks. Pedagogics as a System So every householder well understands that in his home wantonness and wrong-doing on the part of the servants are not to be tolerated. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent The "daughters of Zion" are none other than those whose haughtiness, luxury, and wantonness were described in chap. iii. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 Now the work is nearly over I feel a little out of spirits—why, I should be puzzled to say—mere wantonness, or reaction perhaps after suspense. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 The wantonness of her heart shall esteem thy guidance. The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World Then all was jollity, Feasting and mirth, light wantonness and laughter, Piping and playing, minstrelsy and masking; 'Till life fled from us like an idle dream, A show of mummery without a meaning. Jane Shore A Tragedy Alas! the greatest and most frequent complaint heard anywhere is concerning the disobedience, wantonness and pride of the younger generation found among all ranks. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent Even that last place of refuge was denied her, had been taken from her in wantonness. The Broom-Squire I write of Youth, of Love;—and have access By these, to sing of cleanly wantonness; I sing of dews, of rains, and, piece by piece, Of balm, of oil, of spice, of ambergris. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer “Upon its waving feathers poised in air, Feathers, or rather clouds of golden down, With streamers thrown luxuriantly out In all the wantonness of winged wealth.” Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1 January, 1897 Let us walk honestly, as in the Day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envy. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes What will become of him who lives a God-fearing and humble life, suffering the insolence, pride and wantonness of the world? Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent But what is most provoking in Mr. Buckle is the heedlessness or wantonness with which he is constantly insisting that the causes in question are necessarily present and uniformly acting. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications The longer we reflect upon this measure, the more are we convinced of its wantonness, and of the dangerous nature of the experiment upon every industrial class in this great and prospering country. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 “Temperamental” chefs, men who know their art, usually explode at the sight of such wantonness. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Who are godless, and turn the grace of God into wantonness. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy But even if he supposed that we did these things out of sheer wantonness it would make no difference. The Soul of a People To this Don Quixote retorted that lady Angelica was a giddy and frivolous damsel with desires that smacked of wantonness. The Story of Don Quixote Drunkenness, wantonness, theft, murder gnash and gnarl267 Thine outward, case thy soul with coating like the marle Satan stamps flat upon each head beneath his hoof! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Half in misgiving, half in wantonness, she turned aside and hid in the ditch. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain They had destroyed it out of mere wantonness. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main But what wantonness is it to commend lust? The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero This let us then disprove, In combat speedily, and take from them, The wantonness of this fell pride, and boasting. The Battle of Bunkers-Hill The Colonel began to understand that something more than wantonness had inspired Payton's conduct the previous night. The Wild Geese It was the wantonness of it all that depressed and horrified me. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' It was like a child who, having from sheer wantonness set fire to something, runs to a safe distance and watches it burn. Daisy's Aunt The ease, the grace, the diablerie of the poem are indescribable; its wantonness is not to be excused. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 In some places the snow showed where he had eaten a marten, but in most instances the traps were simply destroyed apparently from sheer wantonness. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country Again, because of wantonness, covetousness and unchastity, the entire world was destroyed by the flood. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The explorers were harassed at times by savage tribes, some of them believed to be cannibals, who attacked the strangers from shore, or in pure wantonness, as they drifted down the stream. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History A natural jealousy sometimes leaped in her bosom, at thought of him exposed to the wiles of women whom she suspected of all wantonness. Heart of the Blue Ridge Wantonness was in the air,—wantonness and beauty; and when these two imps of passion come together August is at its zenith. Too Old for Dolls A Novel A life of pleasure here on the earth in wantonness is directly opposed to a life with Christ. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity These two things are not consistent with each other: to hold to the Christian faith and to live after the wantonness of the flesh, in sins and vices condemned by the conscience. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The Buccaneer knew that these hints were not given in wantonness, and calmly examined his fire-arms. The Buccaneer A Tale There was no law that could restrain in the least the wantonness, the cruelty, the licentious excess of the master, who, as master, possessed the absolute right to do with his slaves whatsoever he pleased. Public School Education Every now and then some half drunken savage would come staggering past; and he knew not how soon some one of these strollers might stick a spear into him, out of mere wantonness! The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness “For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.” The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Everything in Christendom must yield to the wantonness of tyranny. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Two young fools, returning from Tanna with muskets, attempted twice to shoot a man in sheer wantonness and display of malice. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals This will seem to many who do not realise on how slight a basis the identification of her rests, to be the very wantonness of paradox. Dante: His Times and His Work His body shone white all over as the driven snow, his mane streamed proudly in the wind as he stamped on the ground and scoured in very wantonness over hill and valley. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life “Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.” The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wantonness of their success, they had respected, not only the persons of the trembling sisters, but his own. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 But other and older agents have overturned and uprooted the memorials transmitted down from ancient times, with as much wantonness as the railways. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 They flew through rich halls and wretched hovels; wantonness and envy, all the deadly sins, passed before them. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen It is with the very wantonness of ironic insult that our novelty-mongers come to these, bringing fantastic inventions. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations His private life was stained by character or drunkenness, gambling, perfidy, and wantonness. Ancient States and Empires You didn’t need to kill him; you shot him in pure wantonness. The Trail to Yesterday And when I upbraided her for this wantonness, she gave me cruel words. Athelstane Ford He seemed possessed of superabundant physical strength, and in pure muscular wantonness went out of his way to leap the fallen timbers which littered the shore. A Virginia Scout She will find her way back, though she has to tread strange paths, and the punishment for the elimination of natural wantonness is the appearance of hideous hypocrisy. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations A traveller on horseback, in passing through a small village in Cumberland, observed a Newfoundland dog reposing by the side of the road, and from mere wantonness gave him a blow with his whip. Anecdotes of Dogs Where wantonness laughs and thrives in gilded cages, and starves and dies in mouldy cellars. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Aye, and such shoes—shoes made for wear and not for wantonness. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The priest Theodore had already left them in anger before the end of this speech; and the melancholy Antonio chid the little dwarf for his wantonness. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck They had a god to protect its interests, and its sun-burnt youthful wantonness penetrates all their art. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The horror, the tragedy, the wantonness of it all touched him mightily. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man At another, in honor of the nymph Cotys, they addressed her as the goddess of wantonness with many mysterious rites and ceremonies. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Whole communities do not engage in such disastrous strife in mere wantonness and wicked advocacy of a bad cause. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I could see that his hands were tied behind him, and in the wantonness of power Jensen had laid his own bare hanger across the prisoner’s knees. Marjorie The bad men—a word to the wise—are those from whose mouth the gay wantonness of the youth of the world is condemned as evil. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations But such is ever the wantonness of the mocking spirit, from which nothing—not even love—remains sacred; and which at last, for want of other food, turns upon self. My Recollections of Lord Byron Robespierre and his bloody companions were revelling in all the wantonness of irresponsible power. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Through pure wantonness you have cast a cruel shadow on an innocent young life. A World of Girls The Story of a School It had been stolen from them once in simple wantonness by two young men who had nothing to do with the post office robberies. The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters But there are a few for whom the tragic wantonness of that strange countenance, with the heavy eyelids and pouting mouth, means something not easily forgotten, not easily put by. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations We feel a species of respect for them in the lion or tiger, but they deserve only execration when exercised in the wantonness of hatred and revenge by man against his brother man. William the Conqueror Makers of History There had been starving winters and renewing springs, sad beautiful autumns, the riotous waste and wantonness of summer. The Branding Iron To this step, taken in the mere wantonness of tyranny, and in criminal ignorance or more criminal contempt of public feeling, England owes her freedom. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 He did not want her to think that he had killed Pickett in pure wantonness, for he had not thought of shooting the man until Uncle Jepson had warned him. The Range Boss Here he found killing so easy that he slew in wantonness; and then, about daybreak, gorged and triumphant, withdrew to a rocky hillside, where he found a lair to his taste. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life You must have manufactured this riddle out of sheer wantonness, for in the indictment you charge me with reverencing gods! The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Partly for wantonness, partly to vent his spleen upon some living creature, Mr. Gisborne took his gun, and fired—he had better have never fired gun again, than aimed that unlucky shot. Curious, if True Strange Tales When coming upon a flock of sheep or vicuñas, it deals havoc and destruction on every side, often striking down in mere wantonness a far greater number than it can carry off or devour. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Man kills not only the beasts, but his own species for pleasure, or in sheer wantonness of cruelty. On the Vice of Novel Reading. Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. It is strange, how contrary our hearts are to God, we use to turn grace unto wantonness, we use to take more liberty to sin, when we conceive we are pardoned. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Say to yourself that wantonness and avarice refuse all credit and will not wait; and in fact, whoever unlawfully commits a fleshly act is almost always punished in his lifetime. En Route Bivens had boasted that his favours in jewelry given in sheer wantonness of pride to rich guests would be worth twenty-five thousand dollars. The Root of Evil You shall sleep to the music of leaflets, By zephyrs in wantonness shook, To dream of the Skoodoowabskooksis, And, perhaps, of the Skoodoowabskook. The Book of Humorous Verse Giffard had been captured in a moment of incautiousness, but the sights and the wantonness had fired his blood and roused a spirit of retaliation. A Little Girl in Old Quebec I have turned grace into wantonness so that when I look to mercy and grace to comfort me, they do rather challenge me. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Is not this to hang a man at his own door, to lay him sick in his own bed of wantonness? Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel Wittily also did Crates parody the lines, "Eating and wantonness and love's delights Are all I value," with "Learning and those grand things the Muses teach one Are all I value." Plutarch's Morals It is and always has been the result of moral degradation and wantonness. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage In Sonnet lxx. the poet no longer credits his hero with juvenile wantonness, but with a ‘pure, unstained prime,’ which has ‘passed by the ambush of young days.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles If it do not include the law in the hands of a mediator, then we turn the grace of God unto wantonness. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning I have been told that they slaughtered sheep and cattle in pure wantonness, and the rats of Ehrenfels did not make a cleaner sweep of provisions. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Her good humour was never ruffled by the charges of wantonness and cruelty with which the Jesuits filled every Court in Europe. History of the English People, Volume IV At this time a new Governor was sent to Santa Fé, a man who, by his wantonness and tyranny, has since then ruined the province. The Scalp Hunters The plunder that was considered worth carrying off was collected, and then in wantonness the village was set on fire. A Voyage round the World A book for boys Shall we not speak of the freeness of grace, because men's corruptions turn grace into carnal liberty and wantonness? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning If we hide our selves, they may in wantonness destroy our hut and our boat. The Rival Crusoes It was done in mere wantonness, for they could not have known who we were. Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] The Democratic canvass was thus inaugurated, and the overthrow of the party provided for in the mere wantonness of political folly. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 In the gospel we have the most perfect provision against both these extremities, that souls are ready to run upon, the rock of desperate distrust, and the quicksands of presumptuous wantonness. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It was the middle bar that Sophia had turned into a caterpillar, and in pure wantonness left showing through, when for her own purposes she had painted out the rest of the picture. The Nebuly Coat There is nothing to prevent its legislating in the wantonness of caprice. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henceforth do what thou wilt; I rather will suspect the sun with cold Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand, In him that was of late an heretic, As firm as faith. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] By acts of wantonness and vengeful barbarity, they intended to intimidate the prisoners. The History of Tasmania , Volume II Since green earth is awake Let us now pastime take, Not serving wantonness Too well, nor niggardness, Which monks of men would make. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems His theory was that the Winnebagos were not disposed to attack any party of whites in mere wantonness, the act of the Wolf being the whim of a single gnarly-brained warrior. The Hunters of the Ozark Not infrequently he writes page after page p. 46of English as ripe and sound and unaffected as heart could wish; and you can but impute to wantonness and recklessness the splendid impertinences that intrude elsewhere. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation A few days since, a large dog was in wicked wantonness, as I must allow, set upon a poor Christian boy. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century For all that, I repeat he lies not out of wantonness. The Confidence-Man It was something unusual, and brought out the ingenuity and wantonness of cruelty. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion The Creator did not do just the thing itself, in sheer and potent wantonness. The Brentons Rounded is she and buxom, cool-cheeked and vigorous and trim, smelling of rosemary and thyme, with an appetite for curds and cream and a tongue of ‘cleanly wantonness.’ Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation We are surely the especial favourites of Providence, when such wantonness hath not melted us quite away. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection It must be understood that I killed the rhinoceros, not in mere wantonness, but that the carcass might serve as a bait to a lion, of which I was so anxious to get possession. My First Voyage to Southern Seas He supposed that the pirates, after rifling the ship and murdering the crew, had set her on fire to escape detection, or, perhaps, from a mere wantonness in cruelty. Mark Seaworth A certain Shepherd's Boy, who kept sheep upon a common, in sport and wantonness would often cry out, "The Wolf! the Wolf!" Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse They could no longer invoke the aid of the Inquisition in oppressing and trampling on the people, whom their wantonness, and the wantonness of others like them, had brutalized. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Wetzel and another Indian fighter lay in wait for the envoys who passed from the tribes to the general, and in pure wantonness, shot one. Stories Of Ohio Why may not amorous Hero seem a maid, Though she be none, as well as you suppress In modest cheeks your inward wantonness? The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Chambering and wantonness, slumber and drunkenness, the indulgence in the appetites of the flesh,—all that may be fitting for the night, it is clean incongruous with the day. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. In wantonness a shepherd's boy Alarm'd the neighbor's with his cry; "The wolf! the wolf!" Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress I think I did not understand you; I heard, but would not hear; it was wantonness, not evil in me, Cino. Little Novels of Italy We have heard that the dance was indulged in in all wantonness; none of the allurements of love were lacking, and you conducted yourself in a wholly worldly manner. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Pliny quotes this poem of Catullus to excuse the wantonness of his own verses, which he is sending to his friend Paternus; and Apuleius cites the passage in his Apology for the same purpose. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus With the last gleam of day it left the stage to wantonness. Trail's End Neither sex, nor age, nor high character, as we have seen, was a bar against the malice, or the wantonness of the "afflicted." Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem It has indeed been alleged that he might have had means of information no longer available by us; that manuscripts are forgotten, or lost, which bore testimony to Henry's career of wantonness. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth At times when the obligate goat's laugh bleated in among the melodious pangs, I caught a glimpse in the background of a crowd of small women-figures who nodded their odious heads with wicked wantonness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians The right name of the animal is the bison," suggested Garrison; "they have been slaughtered in pure wantonness. Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) The tendency of children to destroy is not from wantonness, but rather from a desire to manipulate. The Mind and Its Education Helen, soft Helen, is it indeed in thee that the wild and brilliant "lord of wantonness and ease" is to find the regeneration of his life—the rebaptism of his soul? The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Girls usually show an increasing fondness for the society of boys, and are very prone to exhibit marked evidences of real wantonness. Plain Facts for Old and Young A characteristic instance of the wantonness with which Cooper's acts and motives were deliberately misrepresented during this period occurred in 1841. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters The accuracy of this definition is very perceptible when we consider the wantonness of the assaults of the Rationalists upon the Scriptures as the canon of faith and practice. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Hysterical women will inflict very severe pain on themselves--merely for wantonness or in order to excite sympathy. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Many, in the wantonness of their fancy, have yielded to the most idle surmises; and this to a degree of licentiousness, for which no learning nor ingenuity can atone. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Cy James, being recalled, gave testimony as to other buried bodies, chiefly of children slaughtered in wantonness or jealousy, or to avoid pursuit. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times One is the illustration furnished of the onslaughts that were made upon the novelist's character and reputation, not from any real ill-will, but from pure wantonness or at least very slight political hostility. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters What had he to do with gluttony, drunkenness, pride, wantonness, incontinency, and the rest of my ware? The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation "Then," she said with cold contempt, "you killed him in pure wantonness?" The Boss of the Lazy Y We shall ever incline to the impression that it is an acquired dialect, picked up in the mere wantonness born of a conscious and exceptional power of mimicry. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 In this the clergy are mercilessly attacked for greed and wantonness. The Age of the Reformation Once a thousand mad fancies occupied her place,—illusions of your taste, naked women, a wantonness that was your religion. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) It embodied virtue, neither hardened by austerity nor vapid with excess of goodness, and it embodied seductive womanhood, without one touch of wantonness or guile. Shadows of the Stage He might now have exhibited his arm, to confound her with the evidence of his innocence of wantonness, and very probably she would have been instantly remorseful. The Boss of the Lazy Y Allied to this thought there came another—an almost necessary corollary of the first—namely the new atmosphere of evil, of lawlessness, of wantonness that pervaded the city. The Mark of the Beast Though the government was thus tempered by Lycurgus, yet soon after it degenerated into an oligarchy, whose power was exercised with such wantonness and violence, that it wanted indeed a bridle, as Plato expresses it. Ideal Commonwealths Gold can do me no good; but man is a mean animal at best; and you can so teach him in crime that he will commit the most revolting out of sheer wantonness. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family It was easy to infer that his conduct proceeded from juvenile wantonness and a love of sport. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The wantonness and sort of rage of it all appalled one. My War Experiences in Two Continents Babies, and little children were brained against the walls of the houses; strong men—fathers, lovers, sons—had been murdered with every wantonness of savagery conceivable. The Mark of the Beast As it was, I came back here to find it whole and safe, except that the crop-eared scoundrels had, from pure wantonness, destroyed the pictures and hacked most of the furniture to pieces. A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden I can show you pride, folly, affectation, wantonness, inconstancy, covetousness, dissimulation, malice and ignorance all in one piece. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour What was the many-headed ruler of the great republic doing, while enemies burned and cut and slashed and wasted in wantonness the property of the public for the enrichment of the Ring? The Freebooters of the Wilderness Nature presents her eternal barrier on every side, to check the wantonness of ambition. Successful Methods of Public Speaking The violence and, to my feeling, the wantonness of these invectives—for they are invectives in intention and in effect—may have seemed justified to Shelley by his political purpose. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Never was there such wantonness, for while she kept one in hiding she was practising upon another, so that she might never be without diversion. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) Thus did this young lady, under the guise of a virtuous woman, like the hypocrite she was, live in such wantonness that reason, conscience, order and moderation found no place within her. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) We had to put forth our best, for Manuel, as if in the very wantonness of confidence, had set a tremendous pace. Romance The very wantonness of the act, however, had the excellent effect of breaking the spell of melancholy under which we were labouring. Berry And Co. "If this world is a place of want, woe, wantonness, an' wickedness, same as you claim, Maria, I don't see how a minister's wife can be too jolly!" was her husband's cheerful reply. The Romance of a Christmas Card In that seeking, there was both innocence and maddening wantonness. Atlantis I can smile," quoth Ganymede, "at the sonettos, canzones, madrigals, rounds and roundelays, that these pensive patients pour out when their eyes are more full of wantonness, than their hearts of passions. Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy And thus they rode on choice coursers to the place of tourney; and so spent and wasted their goods and vexed their bodies with scurrilous wantonness that the murmurs of the people sounded everywhere. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 Every man, prompted by revenge, ill-humor, or wantonness to inspect the inside of his neighbor's house, may get a writ of assistance. History of the United States Thou, by craft, and trickery, and intrigue, and plotting, hast brought thy desire from Rome—what wantonness is this that thou hast done?” Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers The war of classes, which was beginning, sprang not so much from material discomfort of the poor, as from what unsympathetic annalists called their greediness, their pride, and their wantonness. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) The people seem more savage than any I have yet seen: they strike each other barbarously from mere wantonness, but they are civil enough to me. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 These Protestants deny and contemn that symbol, as they despise and contemn in their wantonness the ordinances of God and the authority of His Vicar. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot He would cut down a mail-runner from pure wantonness, or bombard a mud fort with rifle fire when he knew that our men needed to sleep. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling But such is ever the wantonness of the mocking spirit, from which nothing,—not even love,—remains sacred; and which, at last, for want of other food, turns upon himself. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals His lordship tasted the pleasures of libertinism, which then broke out in a full tide, with too acute a relish, and was almost overwhelmed in the abyss of wantonness. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II But his whole reign was a tissue of wantonness and folly, cruelty and injustice, rapacity and corruption. Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. The folk-war, brought on by the wantonness of the opponents, in itself brought peace and order, safety and discipline. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? The latter had been the embodiment of the conservative virtues of traditionalism: the former by her egoism, her extravagance, and her wantonness was in a fair way to destroy all such traditions. The Women of the Caesars One could almost forgive the marauders were food the object, but the birds appear to commit havoc from pure wantonness, and whole rows are sometimes destroyed in a single morning. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition It suffered severely from the wantonness of the French soldiers who were quartered in it during the French occupation of Rome in the first Revolution. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood The head to hock belongs—thy subtler art Intoxicates alone the heedless heart: Through the full veins thy gentler poison swims, And wakes to wantonness the willing limbs. English Satires The stark denial of the blue-ribbed sky looks down upon this garden, where the wantonness of earth is flaunted in the spring against the face of heaven's void sterility. Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country The privations which we suffer—the sweat of our brows—the labor of our hands, go to the-support of his wantonness, his luxury, and his extravagance! Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two It would be mere wantonness to throw yourselves into the hands of our persecutors. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One There's wantonness, for one thing—six love-children born in the parish this year, and more coming. The Ship of Stars And then I glanced up, eastward, to the sun above the privet-hedge, and saw him coming across the flower beds, treading them down in wantonness. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches Women sometimes out of pure wantonness try to exasperate a man so that he falls into courses which bring his end swiftly. Side Lights Not being principal.Probable want of early and deliberate purposes.Youth where the highest malice does not appear.Sex where the highest malice does not appear.Intoxication and levity, or mere wantonness of any kind. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about,—not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) My men are but children to exult as they do; as boys love to tear the thatch from the roof of a useless hovel, in sheer wantonness. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Greeks and Romans alike regarded breeding as the one recognisable object of marriage; any other object was mere wantonness and had better, they thought, be carried on outside marriage. Little Essays of Love and Virtue And he regretted that he had imperiously demanded of himself this assurance of Lorna's wantonness. The Day of the Beast They have defloured our principal maidens in wantonness, and lightly sent them back to us. An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton I must be careful, for Doctor Ormerod and Parson Dewhurst are within hearing, and may lecture me on the wantonness and profanity of swearing. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest But that some there are who abuse the office of war, who strangle and destroy without need, out of sheer wantonness—that is not the fault of the office, but of the person. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 At the outset men had found it impossible to speak too strongly of the "wantonness" of women. Little Essays of Love and Virtue They were sad "only for wantonness," like the young gentlemen in France. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Forgetful of thorn and brier, trickery and wantonness, we clambered down after him, out of the moonlight, into a dark, clear alley, soundless and solitary amid these enchanted woods. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance I enjoyed the malicious wantonness of my acts, and my prospective jump into the unknown ... all the South Seas waited for me ... all the world! Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative I was much displeased at this piece of wantonness and ordered the branch to be taken away; but the natives notwithstanding would not come near the place. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship Every man prompted by revenge, ill-humor, or wantonness to inspect the inside of his neighbor's house, may get a writ of assistance. American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) His lines are most musically sweet, and his descriptions most delicately abundant, even to a wantonness of painting, but still it is the music and painting of nature. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Wading through blood they seized province after province of the empire, destroying and massacring often in mere wantonness. The Empire of Russia This was a subversion of justice from wantonness and petulance. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) No other piece of wantonness equaled it in the tumultuous history of Versailles. The Story of Versailles Then some faint sense of the wantonness and cruelty of it came upon him, and by a tense effort he made her a little inclination that was not ironical. Winston of the Prairie A sweet disorder in the dress kindles in clothes a wantonness. Second Plays Entice no maiden, nor wife of man, nor to wantonness incite. The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson Not all in idle wantonness do tramps carve their monicas, dates, and courses. The Road Whatever good woman thus ventured, overstepping the metes and bounds of sex and status, he deemed did so of wantonness. A Daughter of the Snows The uses of their brains, their limbs, their every feature, end in enjoyment; innocent and radiant wantonness is the condition of their whole existence. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series But she is proud, Sir, that I know for certain, And that comes seldome without wantonness, He that shall marry her, must have a rare hand. Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) He was inclined to no indulgence or wantonness. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Lulu's act seemed the very wantonness of cruelty,—a most cowardly attack of a big, strong girl upon a tiny, helpless creature, who had an indisputable claim upon her tenderest protecting care. Elsie's Kith and Kin And wantonness of such order was akin to—well, he could not say it when thinking of Frona, though she hurt him often by her unwise acts. A Daughter of the Snows Much of the dexterity of the dancers, however, and the entertainment of the spectators, consisted in the wantonness of their attitudes and gestures, which was, indeed, such as exceeds all description. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 My wantonness, my stubborness I have lost too, And now by that pure faith good wives are crown'd with, By your own nobleness. Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) My aim's quite virtuous ne'ertheless, A bit of thievish lust, a bit of wantonness. Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe "Then all was jollity, Feasting and mirth, light wantonness and laughter." Elsie's Kith and Kin This horrible wretch had some time before slain a man and a child through mere wantonness, but escaped punishment by a mistake that had nearly proved fatal to young Heywood. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences Her brother regarded her fixedly, and although her wantonness excited him to vengeance, he could not withstand this affecting appeal. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes He is the chief whom Lying Bill saw shoot three men in Tahuata for sheer wantonness. White Shadows in the South Seas Five things did Canaan teach his children:—To love one another, to perpetrate robbery, to practice wantonness, to hate their masters, and not to speak the truth. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Aghast at this unheard of wantonness, the little interpreter knew not which way to turn, but stood there dazed until a third shot brought him to his senses. Truxton King A Story of Graustark It is a very lank and shambling figure, without elegance or much proportion, and the attitude is the last wantonness of loafing. Italian Journeys This being accomplished they would torture and murder the traders in mere wantonness. Christopher Carson At Lyons they destroyed the hospitals and orphan asylums, out of mere wantonness. France in the Nineteenth Century For mere wantonness they put aboard a bear, a fox, a buffalo, a dog and some geese and sent it over the cataract. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 In the mean while, these Students committed much sauciness and wantonness with the Mistriss and the Maid; till at last locking them both up in a Chamber, away they went without paying. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple As he looked at her, he could only feel the wantonness of this eclipse into which she had plunged her youth and beauty. Marcella For this man, O Athenians! appears to me to be very insolent and intemperate and to have preferred this indictment through downright insolence, intemperance, and wantonness. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates Their wantonness and riot calls aloud to Heaven for vengeance. Stories from the Odyssey The child thus, indeed, becomes immune to impure influences, so that later, when representations of the nude are brought before him for the object of provoking his wantonness, they are powerless to injure him. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society And you, O new made husband, how tumble you now in wantonness! how willingly doth liberal Venus her self, open her fairest Orchard for you! The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple Aristotle had mentioned among the signs of wantonness: paleness, abundance of hair on the body, thick and black hair, hairs covering the temples, and thick eyelids. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy The wantonness of the luxurious people of Tahiti when first discovered by European voyagers is notorious. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Thou mayest reprove them gently, and bid them cease from their wantonness, but they will not heed thee for their lives are forfeit already. Stories from the Odyssey In early Greek tradition, spring and summer were noted as the time of greatest wantonness. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying: 14. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Davies took care to acquaint Foote of this, which effectually checked the wantonness of the mimic. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 But as this tumult seemed only to be the wantonness of English liberty, I shall not presume to lay any further censure upon it. A History of Pantomime Polygamy.—Polygamy has existed in all age is and always has been the result of moral degradation and wantonness. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics I saw the blow had taken him in his sleep, but the wantonness, the misery of it, turned me cold. The Rim of the Desert Amid the universal desolation caused by the very wantonness of the marauders, it was impossible for Livingstone to persuade the natives that he did not belong to the same-set. The Personal Life of David Livingstone Antonyms: retain, maintain, continue, cherish. abandon, n. unrestraint, wantonness. abandoned, a. forsaken, deserted, derelict, castaway, rejected; depraved, reprobate, incorrigible, arrant, graceless, irreformable. abandonment, n. desertion, relinquishment, dereliction, reprobation, surrender, evacuation, rejection, abdication. Putnam's Word Book She could have ignored a frank courtesan with disdainful aloofness, but discreetly veiled wantonness made her articulate. Broken to the Plow It appears, therefore, that Rousseau was not in error when he alleged that emptiness and wantonness only were cherished in these societies, and that the literature which was then current was only a slow poison. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 His style restores to us our courage and our joy; and his noble buffoonery gives us back the sweet wantonness of our youth. One Hundred Best Books In very wantonness, when they met they would pelt each other with curses, and then perhaps burst into a fit of laughter. The Personal Life of David Livingstone Mrs. Maldon in her ignorance could not appreciate the truth, but she could appreciate its wantonness. The Price of Love Only those who had witnessed the wantonness and the capture of the "white witch" followed. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion Oh, CONRAD, there are children—think of it!—so lost to every sense of decency that, in mere wantonness or brainless sloth, they obstinately suck forbidden thumbs! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 His delicacy preserves him from grossness, and his grace from wantonness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Wit with his wantonness Tasteth death's bitterness: Hell's executioner Hath no ears for to hear What vain art can reply! Penny Plain It would be but the merest justice, that men who make war in the spirit of wantonness be compelled to drink off the red cup they have filled, to the very lees. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 That a very little pain, for instance, putteth him out of patience, and as little pleasure softens and disarms him into ease and wantonness? The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 Plutarch had a religion which Montaigne wanted, and which defends him from wantonness; and though Plutarch is as plain spoken, his moral sentiment is always pure.— Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no wantonness now in the civilized nations. Christine They may have been inflicted from mere wantonness. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style And then she remembered what they said of him, that women were his slaves, his playthings, the toys he broke in wantonness and carelessly tossed aside. The Knave of Diamonds This is the very wantonness of cheap goods and an unfettered commerce! The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Vile, barbarous, plotting, destructive man! who, infinitely less excusable than those, destroys, through wantonness and sport, what those only destroy through hunger and necessity! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 Such injustice belongs to the native wantonness of the Comic Muse. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Again came the careful washing, the jealous herding of the golden specks, and the wantonness with which he sent them flying into the stream. Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews Now, Adrian, we can excuse wantonness in the devil, but never slothfulness in religion. Mistress Penwick In possession of so much riches, they now became solicitous to find a safe retreat in which to spend their time in mirth and wantonness. The Pirates Own Book The gale, in sheer wantonness, caught the midnight prowler's hat and with a wild sound as of the detonation of a hundred guns, tossed it to the waves below. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk That onely serves his will and wantonness, And lets the serious part run by As thin neglected sand. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother Remember that between June and September it is the desire of all who can to get away from the big cities—not on account of wantonness, as people leave London—but because of actual heat. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) When Constance saw what the vile wantonness of the wind had done, she fell upon her knees in wild despair and tremblingly remained thus for an instant only, for a bit of hope sprang up. Mistress Penwick He was well endowed, although not without tendency to wantonness; yet he had from childhood diligently studied the classics and poetry. Eastern Shame Girl The tinder-box had become of paramount importance, and it was sheer wantonness on the part of Fate that she should have allowed that little article to rest forgotten on the table in Mistress Lambert's cottage. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk I am no Courtier of a light condition, apt to take fire at every beauteous face; that only serves his will and wantonness, and lets the serious part run by as thin neglected sand. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother Myself and Cailté at each side, In wantonness of youthful pride, Would ride with him where he might ride. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Somehow ill luck seems to hold no inconsiderable portion of benefit, because it does not permit men to lose their senses or indulge in extreme wantonness. Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus You accompany me through all the stages of manhood, from the utmost wantonness to the most refined spirituality. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes But I swore to thy grandmother who died in the Lord, that thou and Adam should never hear of thy mother's wantonness and shame. . . . The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Cromwell calls it "for aught I know, a crowning mercy," and fears lest "the fullness of these continued mercies may occasion pride and wantonness." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler So these Tarentini, too, after rising to an unexampled height of prosperity in turn met with a misfortune that was an equivalent return for their wantonness. Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus If she paints the branch of a rose-tree, it seems to spring from the ground with its flowers in all their luxurious wantonness, and one can almost imagine one's self inhaling their delightful perfume. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. This gave the duke fresh reason to believe that the Scots peer had been administring new grounds for his resentment, by the wantonness of calumny. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV To their surprise and relief, returning farmers found their big, conical haystacks untouched, though nothing could be more tempting to the wantonness of an army on enemy soil. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form So you would vex me for sheer wantonness of heart in order to try my patience? A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 While ferocity, cruelty, habitual wantonness and general coarseness are fatal obstacles to sentimental love, they may be accompanied, as we have seen, by the violent sensual infatuation which is so often mistaken for love. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Reproach can do him no good, and in myself I know not whether it is zeal or wantonness. Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. Such a stupidity or wantonness had seized upon the most raised wits that it might be doubted whether the philosophers or the owls of Athens were the quicker sighted. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Thus, an unbeseeming strain of raillery, adopted in wantonness, became aggravated, by controversy, into real dislike and animosity. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author What insolence and wantonness rather, has he omitted in refusing to come? Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). They grant the wantonness of savages, but declare that it is "due chiefly to the influence of civilization." Primitive Love and Love-Stories The reader will easily observe that I was transported by the multitude and variety of my similitudes; which are generally the product of a luxuriant fancy, and the wantonness of wit. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes The saw-mill was set on fire in pure wantonness, and it was burned to the ground. The Crater Many times Harry Furness' blood boiled when he saw the lash applied to the bare shoulders of the slaves, often, as it seemed to him, from pure wantonness on the part of the overseer. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War He in wantonness ope'd his wide jaws, As a Shark may disport with the Fry; Or a Lion, when licking his paws, May wantonly snap at a Fly. An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects If the savage learned his wantonness from the whites, did he get all his other vicious habits from the same source? Primitive Love and Love-Stories The ripples that swept to the pebbly shore, O'er shells of purple in wantonness played, And the whispering zephyrs sweet odors bore, From roses that bloomed amid silence and shade. Poems It was like the warble of a bird who sings out of very wantonness. Views a-foot She had not been really angry with him for the wantonness of those stones. The Obstacle Race With characteristic Indian wantonness and wastefulness hundreds of cattle were shot down, only the tongue being taken out for food. Reminiscences of a Pioneer In reality the conduct of these girls was nothing but wantonness, in which the men, as a matter of course, acquiesced. Primitive Love and Love-Stories One day he saw a lion's cub, and brought it up till it followed him about like a dog; but a cruel satyr shot it in mere wantonness. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Then it is that he yields to sentiments with which he trifled, in the wantonness of abundance, and is glad to seek relief in the sympathies of his kind. The Red Rover In a Newfoundland harbour, on one occasion, he burned and sank twenty-one vessels, destroyed the fisheries and stages, and wrought all the havoc he could, out of pure wantonness. The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago Desperate and defiant as the rustlers had been, it would be an injustice to represent them as capable of such wantonness. Cowmen and Rustlers A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges It was thus that I allowed myself in the wantonness of refinement, even in the midst of destruction. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are It sets the nerves altogether wrong, and disposes one to commit evil deeds from mere wantonness and the feeling that some violent reaction from this influence is what nature insists upon. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine To what point of wantonness this arrogance of royalty may lead me, I do not know: I will watch, and see. The Purple Cloud While republics are destroyed by extravagance, lust, and self-seeking, a monarchy can dispense with civil virtue, patriotism, and moral disinterestedness, since in it false honor, luxury, and wantonness subserve the public good. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time What is there in Antonius except lust, and cruelty, and wantonness, and audacity? The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 In the scene that had just passed I had indulged, as I have said, in a wantonness and luxury of refinement. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are I do not believe that it was a mere wantonness of memory that preserved the image of that hour with such affectionate detail, where so many brighter and more eventful hours have disappeared for ever. The Ghost Ship Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wantonness of their success they had respected, not only the persons of the trembling sisters, but his own. The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 For a woman to dream that she cooks hash, denotes that she will be jealous of her husband, and children will be a stumbling block to her wantonness. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition But these acts of wantonness and cruelty had roused the militia; and Maj. A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade And while the churches in England were, everywhere, resounding with prayers to Almighty God, "to spare the effusion of human blood," those monsters were shedding it with the most savage wantonness! The Life of General Francis Marion The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty. Frankenstein "It is the mere wantonness of insult," said one of the oldest and most important of Prince John's followers, Waldemar Fitzurse, "and if your Grace attempt it, cannot but prove ruinous to your projects." Ivanhoe To kill a lark, portends injury to innocence through wantonness. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition With the wantonness of a sick man’s fancy, he likened it to the mighty cry of some Titan of the Elder World vexed with misery or wrath. The Red One And lo, the pride, grim greed, and wantonness— How great the slaughters in their train! and lo, Debaucheries and every breed of sloth! On the Nature of Things Never may no knighthood come of such wantonness that shall not cost you right dear! The High History of the Holy Graal These flocked around the prince, embraced him, and provoked him to filthy wantonness, by their walk and talk inviting him to dalliaunce. Barlaam and Ioasaph You are likely to be justly indignant with the wantonness of some friend. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition It was at this place that a wantonness of savagery had seized upon him. The Red One At first, in the newness of his freedom, he breaks out into idle sallies and escapes, and is like the full-fed steed that manifests his wantonness in a thousand antics and ruades. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Every man prompted by revenge, ill-humor or wantonness to inspect the inside of his neighbour's house, may get a Writ of Assistance. James Otis, the pre-revolutionist Now the work is nearly over I feel a little out of spirits - why, I should be puzzled to say - mere wantonness, or reaction perhaps after suspense. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin The city full of wantonness, And both are full of pride: Then care away, etc. The Compleat Angler Nor was there any thing shameful in this nakedness of the young women; modesty attended them, and all wantonness was excluded. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power. The War of the Worlds Every man prompted by revenge, ill-humor, or wantonness, to inspect the inside of his neighbor's house, may get a Writ of Assistance. James Otis, the pre-revolutionist The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. Dracula A crowd of drunken idlers stood or lay about the bar, cursing, swearing, shouting, dancing, and here and there firing their pistols into the air out of pure wantonness. The Captain of the Polestar Then on the walls were tapestries which depicted Merlin's Dream, so that everywhere recoiling women smiled with bold eyes; and here their wantonness seemed out of place. The Certain Hour And if she knew, then she had deliberately despoiled her friend, and in mere wantonness of power, since, even to Gerty's suddenly flaming jealousy, it seemed incredible that Lily should wish to be Selden's wife. House of Mirth Fickleness towards a lover is bad, but fickleness after playing the wife is wantonness.' A Pair of Blue Eyes He killed to eat, not from wantonness; but he preferred to eat what he killed himself. The Call of the Wild She was silent and grave; she had a manner which took the edge from the wantonness of filial independence. Confidence It had shaken him, as yet, but with a half good-humored wantonness; but, henceforth, possibly, it meant to handle him more roughly. Roderick Hudson It was the wantonness of it that stirred me. The Island of Doctor Moreau Sir 27:13 The discourse of fools is irksome, and their sport is the wantonness of sin. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha I hear nothing but what this confident creature Betty throws out in the wantonness of office. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Everard hastily interposed, lest by something yet more strongly alluding to Cromwell, his imprudent squire should, in mere wantonness, betray his interview with the General. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier How sad that the word "giddy" is used to imply wantonness or levity! Alarms and Discursions This brute had run a little way and then turned savagely at bay, and Montgomery—with a certain wantonness, I thought—had shot him. The Island of Doctor Moreau |
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