| 单词 | dissolute |
| 例句 | A lissome, blond, sinuous girl with lovely legs and honey-colored skin laid herself out contentedly on the arm of the old man’s chair and began molesting his angular, pale, dissolute face languidly and coquettishly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And some comedic openings for the play's dissolute clowns are unexploited. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z Growing up a “wild, dissolute youth” he devoured horror comics, listened to David Bowie and took long bush walks. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Dionysus is also Bacchus, a dissolute lord of misrule. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z There have been plenty of picaresquely dissolute designers since Brownjohn, but few with his élan. Design: The Man Who Broke the Record on 'Let It Bleed' 2011-12-11T14:01:00Z William is such a dissolute cad that Frances really does find herself between a rock and a hard place. ‘The Fever Tree’: a Victorian epidemic in South Africa 2013-07-24T22:06:30Z On “Give Me Love” he was tender and dissolute: “Maybe tonight I’ll call you/After my blood turns into alcohol.” Music Review: Ed Sheeran at the Mercury Lounge 2012-02-02T23:20:55Z He says that the film plays up Batman’s age, as well as the dissolute cad side of Bruce Wayne. Here's How Ben Affleck Reacted When He Got Cast as Batman 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z But the series makes a credible-enough-for-comedy case that, if the dissolute energies of the post-’60s were channeled slightly differently, it might have. Review: ‘Minx’ Returns, Confident and Fully Exposed 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Her Lee is dissolute, unsociable, mildly monstrous and somehow deeply sympathetic. Review: Makeup Tips Galore, but Not How to Handle Cancer, in ‘Ultimate Beauty Bible’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z ‘Perfectly dissonant and dissolute’: Nick Cave fronts Grinderman at the Garage. Grinderman 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Valentin’s nights out in Rome may have been dissolute, but the nights he painted are suffused with pain. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Among them are Blackett’s feckless, dissolute son, Monty, who is scheming to avoid military service; his daughter, Joan, a human viper; and the Human Condition, an elderly, mangy spaniel with his own preoccupations. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z She looked fetchingly dissolute, her images hinting that the designer would move in a more languid direction. New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z He is a world-weary, somewhat dissolute avatar of colonial power — “a representative of the state” in his own assessment, which sounds both humble and boastful — going to seed in a tropical paradise. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z She is contemptuous of both her bourgeois mama and her dissolute cringing father, who is in thrall to opium and gambling. Gigola blends pulp and soft porn at London lesbian and gay film festival 2011-03-30T11:52:01Z The often raging elder Joyce, dissolute and spendthrift, plunged his wife and children into misery and fear. Review | For famous writers, father didn’t always know best, but he provided plenty of inspiration 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z His father, James Hamilton, the dissolute fourth son of a Scottish laird, had washed up on the island of St. Kitts. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Nopca, a Catalan journalist and novelist, examines how capitalism is rigged against his characters, who are at times determined, desperate and dissolute. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z He’s clearly not on the side of the French aristocracy; he paints a picture of Darnay’s uncle, the Marquis, as dissolute, negligent and morally reprehensible — a man who gets what he deserves. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 6: A Tale of Two Cities 2012-01-31T18:00:47Z Even at his dissolute worst, his writing is so much more vivid than Lahr's, which is exceptionally fluent when not on an alliterative tear. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Four other women form a dissolute, wild chorus of sorts, burbling and noodling about the principals, who are engaged in making their own illogical logic. Dance Review: Fitzgerald and Stapleton?s ?Smell of Want? ? Review 2011-10-04T22:36:15Z Suspicions about absinthe and its connection to an artsy, dissolute bohemian set had swirled for years. Why absinthe still has power, even after its myths have been debunked 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Devoid of charisma or a third dimension, these contrived characters — whether dissolute or doltish, shrill or sheepish — rarely engage. Movie Review: ?Love? Is a Romantic Comedy Set in China and Taiwan 2012-02-17T01:30:50Z A couple of years ago, the deliberately dissolute look of a model off duty was a strong inspiration, he said. New York Fashion Week: Kate Middleton?s Style Felt on the Runways ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:34:15Z Daphne’s ex-husband, Holden, a dissolute WASP, apparently pursued her only so that he could receive an inheritance. In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Dissolute men pine for wives who have ditched them, and dissolute women carp at no-good boyfriends. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z In the intervening years, Foster has milked his fame and indulged his fortune, becoming, first, a dissolute celebrity, and then a celebrated recluse. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z It also provoked strong reactions from members of the public, some of whom were tempted to alter Emin's dissolute arrangement of bed sheets and pillows, according to a Times report from 1999. Tracey Emin's provocative 'My Bed' sells for more than $4 million 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z A portrait of the playwright as a young dissolute man, Edmund is the fragile observer of the inferno engulfing his family. Alfred Molina, Jane Kaczmarek and the slow burn of a 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Among them was the idea that Mozart, who died in 1791, at 35, was dissolute and destitute at the end. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It doesn’t traffic in exposé, either — in nuggets about pilot’s sex lives or memorably dissolute passengers. Review: Mark Vanhoenacker’s ‘Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot’ on Joy of Flight 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It showed, on a supposedly dissolute strip, derelicts swigging maple syrup and louche emporiums promising such forbidden pleasures as “live, hatless girls.” Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a ‘Retrofuture,’ Dies at 87 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z West will play the role of the dissolute Butley, made famous by Alan Bates in Simon Gray's play of the same name. Dominic West to revive classic stage role of academic loser Butley 2011-02-20T00:07:03Z The "scapegrace peer" fights with the dissolute Duke of Andover for the favours of Diana Beauleigh, and charm wins the day. John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z The cost of her remaining in a loveless relationship with a dissolute husband registers here with an impact that I’ve never before felt quite as acutely. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ghosts,’ ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘The Pass’ in London 2014-02-04T18:25:15Z A dissolute, flaky, noisy persona may have made Amy famous, but underneath are fierce loyalty and enviable discipline, conveyed in a librarian’s hush. Amy Schumer and Carol Burnett Tell Their Stories 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z He always looked good -- dissolute, slightly disheveled and puffing on cigarettes -- always hanging out with the female icons of the time. Serge Gainsbourg, introduction to a provocateur 2011-09-02T20:20:00Z Kelly Robinson, played by Mr. Culp, posed as a dissolute, globe-trotting tennis bum accompanied by his trainer, Alexander Scott, played by Mr. Cosby. Robert Culp, Star in ?I Spy,? Dies at 79 2010-03-25T01:52:00Z Songs such as Blood Brides of Malaya are dissolute and twang intensely where these other bands riff. Wolf Alice; Mens Adventures; Blackeye; Must – review 2013-01-13T00:06:15Z In the novel, she gives herself a tattered, dissolute glamour — she’s wearing a rakish rose-brown man’s fedora and one of her mother’s threadbare silk dresses. Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z “Baal,” Brecht’s first play, is the work of a young playwright, a sprawling yet static portrait of a dissolute poet who corrupts everything in his path. Theater Review: Brecht’s ‘Baal,’ Hoi Polloi, at Jack in Brooklyn 2012-07-22T22:04:47Z Jenny led such a careless, dissolute life that her sons’ parentage is not legally certified, and her death leaves them potentially stateless. Review: In ‘Xenia,’ a Fraternal Bond and a Quest 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Running the gamut between parodic faux-autofiction and historical fiction narrated by a bevy of marooned, increasingly dissolute Frenchwomen, the stories here are almost studiously varied. An Intrepid Chronicler of Sundry Experiences 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Gauguin: Maker of Myth rescues the artist from his reputation as the amoral, dissolute monster of trashy biopics, and gives us instead a Gauguin for our time. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z It's very much going to reflect our real-world tensions, with conservatives claiming to speak for Jesus and decrying liberals as dissolute threats to the moral fabric of society. Alicent Hightower of "House of the Dragon" is the Karen of Westeros 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z As the dissolute girlfriend of a whacked-out wannabe actor says in the story “The Wierdos,” “I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood. … I liked how ugly it all was, how trashy.” Ottessa Moshfegh's short story collection 'Homesick for Another World' wades into the ugliness of people 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It is unfortunate that the dramatic poet who taught the American theater to lyrically soar is once again being remembered for his dissolute decline rather than for the sublimity of his best writing. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Then a dissolute writer in “Bright Lights, Big City” with him a few years later. An appreciation: Cinematographer Gordon Willis 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Rich Hall was already a veteran writer and performer when he started masquerading as the dissolute Tennessean country singer in 1998. Comedy gold: Rich Hall's Otis Lee Crenshaw and the Black Liars 2013-05-17T10:33:29Z His “Satyricon” is an extravagant classic tale set in drunken, dissolute Rome. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z In “Danny Collins,” Al Pacino injects a zany charge of adrenaline into the title role of a rich, dissolute pop star belatedly seeking redemption for four decades of excess and wasted talent. Review: Al Pacino in ‘Danny Collins’ Plays a Dissolute Pop Star 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Charles II, his dissolute courtier buddies and his merry mistresses enjoyed themselves in interiors like these. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z The story of the dissolute nobleman who leaves a path of seduction across Europe before descending into the fiery abyss screaming but unrepentant is Mozart's darkest opera. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z By the way, the bad boy, in this instance, is the dissolute James Tyrone — whose younger but already self-destructive self appears in O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” — and he is played by Will Swenson. Review: In ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten,’ Audra McDonald Is Front and Center 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z A wealthy prince in Aquitaine, Jaufré is tired of his dissolute aristocratic life and, spurred by a pilgrim’s tale, falls in love with someone he’s never met: Clémence, the Countess of Tripoli. Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z To a person, the characters are types: the shallow American kids, the dissolute playboys, the noble protesters and journalists, the cynical advisers, sneering elites and sad-eyed children. REVIEW: FX's Tyrant Is Its Own Downfall 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But Grinderman – aka Australian rock elder statesman Nick Cave, and some of his Bad Seeds – are perfectly dissonant and dissolute in their own right. Grinderman 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z At 39, he had been hugely influential and famous, but had also led a dissolute life of street brawls and alcohol. Rome to honor Caravaggio with rare night visits 2010-07-17T13:03:00Z "It's true, they took drugs; swept up by their success, they lived dissolute and uninhibited lives," said the paper. Vatican makes peace with the Beatles 2010-04-12T14:54:00Z Lacenaire was a strange combination of haughty and dissolute — someone who read Rousseau’s “Social Contract” while waiting on an apartment landing for one of his victims. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The show opens earlier, with Minter's frank, 1969 photographs of her rather dissolute mother in Coral Gables, Fla. Black-and-white portraits often show her out of focus from behind but crisply reflected in a mirror. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In one such interlude, Smuts, one half of the novel's dissolute double-act around which chaos swirls like a storm, has violent sex with a young girl in a fish tank containing an octopus. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z Their only home is their Connecticut summer house, where their sons would return from school and later from their dissolute wanderings to spend time with their parents for a few combustible weeks a year. Even with Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne, 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' fails to connect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z He’s as likely to blow a startlingly swinging chorus over a jazz standard as he is to unleash a searing blast of sound over a dissolute, free-jazz backing. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Swanson Beard is the more eclectic of the two, cultivating the chicly dissolute air of a lady who brunches at Sarabeth’s on the Upper East Side but may at any instant decamp for Coachella. Countdown to Fashion Week: At Veronica Beard, Meeting in the Middle 2013-08-07T20:40:05Z Kate Moss, the model whose personal style and penchant for dissolute musicians is chronicled with obsessive attention by the British news media, is often described as the heir to Marianne Faithfull, another Stones paramour/muse. Anita Pallenberg Changed How We All Dress, Not Just Keith Richards 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z “Destroyer” was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible. At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z For so long, after all, the most chart-busting thriller novels were the province of the robotic but moral special ops guy, the dissolute unshaven detective, the beefy brawler with a soul. Summer Reading 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The photographer travelled with the Rolling Stones for part of their infamously dissolute 1972 tour. From a musician to a rock star 2011-08-23T14:55:40Z “La Dolce Viva” depicted its voluble subject as befuddled, destitute, dissolute and promiscuous. Barbara Goldsmith, Author of ‘Little Gloria,’ Dies at 85 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Despite their teeming decadence, or more likely because of it, Mr. Crews’s novels betray a fundamental empathy, chronicling his characters’ search for meaning in a dissolute, end-stage world. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z That’s due in part to the self-descriptive slacker ballad “Sadly Beautiful,” but it’s due most of all to “Nobody,” a dissolute blast of pop, rock, and soul that Mehr, oddly, doesn’t even mention. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He took his pen name from the hero of a cult novel about dissolute post-Soviet life and was one of a high-profile cadre of hard-line, pro-war bloggers with enormous followings on Telegram. Russia Accuses Dissidents and Ukraine of Killing Pro-War Blogger 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Banks’ wintry, autobiographical sixth novel turns on the lifelong conflict between a dissolute New Hampshire police officer and his son. 5 essential Russell Banks novels you should read 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z There are also historical templates for the younger royal being cast in a negative light, accused of dissolute and disreputable or as a rival threatening to undermine the authority of the elder. The enduring anguish of being the royal 'spare' 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Russian propagandists are doing exactly that, right now, etching a picture of a virtuous, beleaguered country defending itself against meddlesome and dissolute international adversaries. Perspective | Ukraine wants a boycott of Russian culture. It’s already happening. 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Now, he’s pivoting back again with this maximalist tale of dissolute Hollywood players in the early days of the film industry. The Best of 2022 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The patriarch in question is Lord Rollo, a dissolute aristocrat whose love of drink and impulsive acquisitiveness have led to hard times at Stonebridge Manor, the family pile. Review | ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ is a sprightly critique of the patriarchy 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z But the mural took on a life of its own as a subversive commentary on the dissolute ways of a dying system. Dmitri Vrubel, Who Planted a Kiss on the Berlin Wall, Dies at 62 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The spark of the novel is ignited by the love story between Carlota Moreau, the scientist’s daughter, and the ranch’s overseer, Montgomery Laughton, a dissolute Englishman hired by the colonial landowner funding the doctor’s experiments. How Silvia Moreno-Garcia's shapeshifting visions of Mexico took over the bestseller list 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z George’s father, Edward VII, had enjoyed a colorful but dissolute, champagne-fueled existence amid a fast set of plutocrats and married mistresses. Review | George V, the proudly ‘ordinary’ king who rebranded the British monarchy 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z She disapproved of his dissolute lifestyle, he said, and forced him to marry. Sergei Tolstoy, ‘bohemian’ descendant of Leo Tolstoy, dies at 99 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z There have been lots of dissolute owners with doormat teams. Perspective | The NFL is paying the price for underestimating its Daniel Snyder problem 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z He smoked, drank and generally behaved like the typical dissolute reporter. It's been 20 years since 9/11, but the accused mastermind of the attacks has yet to stand trial 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Headlines included phrases like “Negro ruffian,” “colored cannibal,” “dissolute Negress” and “African Annie.” Opinion | How the White Press Wrote Off Black America 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z The two men, Le Carré felt, had far too much in common as upper-class-hating sons of dissolute fathers “so oversized that your only resort as a child was to subterfuge and deceit.” John le Carré, spy novelist transcended pulp genre to literary art, has died 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z MacGowan is a fascinating subject: brilliant, dissolute and as self-destructive as he is self-aware. New movies to stream this week: ‘Another Round,’ ‘Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan’ and more 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z But nearly two decades after the extremists were removed from power, actresses like Ms. Ebrahimi still struggle to shed images as dissolute women. Fighting Patriarchy, and Fearing Worse From the Taliban 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s one thing for the league to put up with a dissolute twerp who is sure to deliver a doormat team and who can be fleeced out of high draft choices with laughable ease. Perspective | Daniel Snyder has now embarrassed — and exposed — the entire NFL 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The Morse of the books is even more wayward and dissolute than the TV version, but there is a Sgt. 16 meaty book series to get you through coronavirus stay-at-home orders 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z After decades of dissolute living, Andrew is proclaiming how sorry he is; inevitably, he will be forgiven. What explains Prince Andrew’s rehabilitation and Harry’s vilification? Misogyny | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Some of the best scenes are between Beth and her dissolute mother, a pill-head divorcée at the crossroads between Eugene O’Neill and “The Real Housewives,” who is a different kind of coach. Uncertain Attraction in “Work in Progress” and “Dare Me” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z We talk for a bit about whether extreme dissolute behaviour and artistic greatness go hand in hand. Harry Styles: ‘I’m not just sprinkling in sexual ambiguity to be interesting’ 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z You could call them unprincipled, opportunistic, cowardly, spineless, vacillating, fainthearted, jittery or dissolute. Press Watch: Democrats who are undecided on impeachment aren't "moderates." They're hacks 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The country stares back at this dissolute man in blank disgust. Prince Andrew showed was true power is: turning a blind eye to abuse | Suzanne Moore 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z “The King,” a movie about the dissolute youth and unlikely rise of English monarch Henry V, is a handsome, intriguing, strangely purposeless affair. Review | Timothée Chalamet stars in ‘The King,’ a handsome if dull take on English history 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Making no attempt to disguise how slender and boyish Hal is, Chalamet effortlessly conveys the air of inborn command that hangs around the heir to the throne no matter how young and dissolute. Review: 'The King' makes Timothée Chalamet the ruler of all he surveys 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He was appalled by the corruption and dissolute attitude toward the people, both by U.S. and Nationalist troops. Sidney Rittenberg, American adviser to the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 98 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z That gives you an idea of the sort of crowd that used to frequent the Argyll Rooms, the West End’s premier and most dissolute dance hall. Theme parks, pubs and 'human zoos': how the Victorians invented leisure 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z He emerges from his biographical record as incompetent, lazy, dissolute and a liar, yet the public’s response is that he is “our kind of liar”. Boris Johnson may be an incompetent liar, but charm is his secret weapon | Simon Jenkins 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z But this was a game that reached back beyond the dissolute – if highly entertaining – character of the modern game to something far more primal. Liverpool’s power shows Barcelona that passing alone is not enough | Jonathan Wilson 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Much of that strangeness derives from Violet’s relationship with her accidental mentor/manager, a dissolute former opera singer named Vlad that she meets at the karaoke bar. Review | ‘Teen Spirit’ will remind you of ‘A Star Is Born’ — except it’s even better 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Famously dissolute when he was coming up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Stewart is big these days on not squandering his resources. Rod Stewart knows you want to hear the old songs. He's writing new ones anyway - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson advocated confinement in poorhouses for vagabonds who “waste their time in idle and dissolute courses.” Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z She pressed Pause on a scene of a dissolute Philip bent over a letter. “Ways and Means” 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z They affirmed, and passionately, that the dissolute expatriates in this novel of “a lost generation” were not worth bothering about; and then they devoted most of their time to discussing them. Reading “In Our Time” in 1927 1927-10-22T05:00:00Z The tomb was demolished soon after the 1979 Islamic revolution as Iran's new clerical rulers sought to erase all traces of a secular monarchy that by then was widely seen as corrupt, despotic and dissolute. The discovery of a decades-old corpse unearths a new threat to Iran's theocracy 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The typed letter condemned King as “a colossal fraud . . . and a dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile.” ‘You are done’: A secret letter to Martin Luther King Jr. sheds light on FBI’s malice 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Too bad the fellow is actually no official at all — just a dissolute ne’er-do-well and lowly government clerk without a kopeck to his name, who merrily plays along. Review: Seattle Shakespeare’s ‘Government Inspector’ keeps us laughing 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z This was the year of “Exile on Main St.,” the famously dissolute Rolling Stones record that helped valorize the notion of the wasted rock star in songs like “Tumbling Dice” and “Torn and Frayed.” Walter Becker approached everything with irreverence — except Steely Dan's music 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z George III, shunned by his dissolute father, lived with his mother and eight siblings until the day he inherited the throne. America’s last king: The unsettling parallels between King George III and Donald Trump 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Political reform and the rights of common people were fiercely debated but Lord Liverpool's Tory government - under the dissolute Prince Regent, George - met calls for change with prison, execution or transportation to the colonies. Spies, lies and fake news - England's 'last revolution' - BBC News 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z When we first meet Fawcett in 1905, he is an undecorated British army major stationed in Cork, Ireland, eager to distinguish himself and erase the damaging legacy of his father’s dissolute ways. James Gray's hauntingly beautiful 'The Lost City of Z' is Charlie Hunnam's finest performance 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Darulaman Palace is a lot more than an unpretty face, a result of its last four dissolute decades: It encompasses the sweep of almost nine decades of Afghan history. Saving an Afghan Symbol, With Afghans Only 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “It was pretty unanimous that he was a dissolute Pope who had many women in the Lateran.” Why the Real Young Pope Had the Worst Reputation Ever 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Olson brings the same dissolute charm she wields as bartender Dee “Sweet Dee” Reynolds in “It’s Always Sunny,” but it’s not enough to overcome an unfortunate tendency to mistake vulgar excess for subversive humor. Right down to its title, 'The Mick' seems designed to provoke rather than entertain 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z According to some political analysts, Xi frets that he inherited a party organization that had become too corrupt and dissolute, and in order to maintain power, it required a purge of graft and deviant ideas. Beijing Goes Retrograde With Its Authority 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Edelman’s earlier arrests off the soapbox had made him “dissolute” and therefore a vagrant under the law. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z That dissolute era — as well as a murder mystery and diabolical booby trap — is vividly recounted at the Museum of the American Gangster. A Museum of Cash, Guns and Gangsters in the East Village 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Disappointingly, however, nobody in either debate said anything about a related topic that has been very much in the news this past week: the dissolute state of American higher education. The Closing of the Republican Mind 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z An open letter published under the name ‘Shi Zhengyi’ last week accused the abbot of living the kind of dissolute double life that has become distinctly unfashionable under President Xi Jinping. Has China's Anti-Graft Campaign Reached Shi Yongxin? 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “One can have a private life that is quite dissolute, one can have an unconventional marital arrangement,” he said, adding that it would not inform people’s voting here. French Court Acquits Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Case That Put His Sex Life on View 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z If you conduct your life in a dissolute, lazy way, don't expect your kids not to do the same thing. Bill Nye the Science Guy Talks Keeping Teens Interested in STEM 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Yet Williams’ story isn’t one of teenage rebellion taking her off into a dissolute rock lifestyle. Joy Williams: What got me through the Civil Wars breakup? Friends, therapy – and red wine 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z In the anonymous letter, published for the first time in the New York Times Wednesday, the author refers to the Nobel Peace Prize recipient as “evil,” a “fraud,” and a “dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile.” FBI Letter to Martin Luther King Jr Reveals Ugly Truths From Hoover's Era 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Most of our poorer Southern and rural states are convinced that they are to the rest of America what the Germans are to Europe: hard workers who subsidize their dissolute neighbors. Scotland and the Auld Alliance 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Her work is subtle, nothing like the photo essays expected by Western news media outlets that are often fixated on the extremes of religious fanatics or dissolute sybarites. Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Blessed with moneyed roots and a good orthodontist, the "gangsta Nancy Sinatra" chooses the more dissolute path of bad men and great parties with detours to trailer parks. Ultraviolence review: Lana Del Ray delivers more of the same 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z It accused him of offences such as financial mismanagement and selling off national resources for his personal gain, but it also denounced him for leading what it called "a dissolute and depraved life". N Korea images show aide's removal 2013-12-09T10:46:18Z "Affected by the capitalist way of living, Jang committed irregularities and corruption and led a dissolute and depraved life." North Korea says Kim's uncle dismissed for 'criminal acts' 2013-12-09T01:06:56Z I still wonder at the breadth and depth of available feeds, from dissolute gadgetry to politics, technology, science, languages, cars, sports… I join the many who mourn Google Reader's impending demise. Google Reader: what are the alternatives? 2013-06-17T10:37:00Z Tuesday nights belong to brisket, injected with palm sugar and more fish sauce, marinated overnight with apricot preserves and smoked for 17 hours to dissolute splendor. Hungry City: Hungry City: Ducks Eatery in the East Village 2012-11-23T21:30:46Z In Germany, however, the prevailing stereotype is that the dissolute Greeks squandered the privileges of euro zone membership. News Analysis: In Euro Crisis, Plenty of Blame to Go Around 2012-08-24T18:57:37Z The heroes of those potboilers were so clean-cut as to make even Horatio Alger characters seem dissolute in comparison. City Room: Big City Book Club Tonight Discusses 'Bang the Drum Slowly' 2012-06-27T17:46:25Z Another nun apostatised and lived a dissolute life for some time in the world, returning in 1337. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The Christian faith, planted in the dissolute cities of Asia Minor, had produced many fanatical ascetics and a few illustrious theologians, but it had no renovating effect upon the people at large. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Even the licence of a dissolute age was contrasted to its favour with the gloom, “tristitia,” that settled down over Europe with the great Catholic reaction. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z The portion of the tithe which the priest could retain in this scramble was rarely sufficient for his wants, addicted as he frequently was to dissolute living, and exposed to the rapacity of his superiors. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z They soon had a devoted following; a following of which every member was a very gallant soldier, though doubtless many of them were also dissolute and reckless. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Pomponio, the eldest child, though a priest, was dissolute and a spendthrift, constantly incurring debts which his devoted father paid to mitigate the disgrace. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Clergy, the, dissolute in the early ages, 68; anecdotes of, 68; rob and plunder, 69. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z He advised that, as they did not proceed upon the same grounds with pirates, who were men of dissolute lives and no principles, they should not adopt their colours. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z A nanny-house, or simple “nanny,” was well known to the loose and dissolute of either sex at the close of the sixteenth century. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z But no contrast is stronger than that of the two Kings themselves,—of the grave, dignified, blundering, narrow, but ever earnest martyr-king, with the dissolute, easy-going, but always shrewd, merry monarch. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z The result of this letter was a summons to the court at Milan, where Lodovico, though dissolute, was proud to surround himself with the most brilliant men and women of the age. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z In those countries long debauched by superstition, comic art has little chance; for if tyranny does not kill it, a dissolute public degrades it into a means of pollution. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Armies, and navies, and enterprise, and numbers, with a sound hereditary government, may for a time give prosperity to a dissolute immoral people. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z I am horrified to state how shame- “ful was the life which Benedict led, how dissolute, how “detestable. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z In the dissolute court of the Restoration there was no place for Rupert of the Rhine. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z We can imagine how the shy, proud Moor would have writhed under the pasquinades of the graceful, dissolute Venetian wits whom he despised. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z A clergyman met a parishioner of dissolute habits. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z With the dissolute wits of the army he was exceedingly popular, but Rupert, always so temperate himself, had no sympathy with the failings of Wilmot. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Still she was not without some consolation; she became the mother of promising children, on whom she could bestow the treasures of love and tenderness, of the value of which the dissolute Louis was insensible. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The natural successor of a king bigoted is a prince dissolute. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Nothing in Christianity appeared more novel and more severe, in comparison with the dissolute morals of the time, than the Christian view of marriage. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z It is enough to say, that I do not think more dissolute circumstances accompanied the worship of Venus in the most defiled of heathen temples. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z He was gay and friendly, but not dissolute. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Student girls were subjected to indignities by dissolute officials—all “by administrative order.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z So thought all the dissolute men of Pope's circle, as we know from their conversation and letters. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The application of the word dissolute to the last, and of the word self-restrained to the first, implies this fact. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The society is dissolute, I think, almost without an exception. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Augustine was attracted to the church because he saw it non dissolute hilaris. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z I secrete myself simply because people might not understand my motives; they might think that I was secretly given to dissolute courses. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z The arbours were repaired, mostly at the cost of private individuals, and at spasmodic intervals, while the Show still continued to afford opportunities for dissolute revelry to the lowest of the town and neighbourhood. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Among the latter was a dissolute boy named Ike Slump. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z I was thrown out of the Colonial service, you see, and afterwards drove a steam launch for a very dissolute mahogany trader. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z As they went in that direction, they came upon a strange dissolute old man whom they eyed with wondering dislike, and to whom they gave a wide berth as they passed. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z This man, however, proved to be a dissolute and worthless fellow, having already a wife in England, when he married Miss Read. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z His relationship with his parents was troubled as he grew dismayed at what he said was their dissolute lifestyle. Ronald Fraser, Oral Historian, Dies at 81 2012-02-20T06:15:06Z Yes! they are humane towards all that is human; i.e., towards banqueting and drinking, dissolute living and deceit. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z He was then entering upon that career of extravagance, eccentricity, and vice which, along with his reputation for eloquence and for strange fits of repentance, astonished even the dissolute circles of the Court. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The capital was handed over to the custody of four thousand yeomen, who--drunken, dissolute, uncurbed--proceeded to make hay while the blood-red sun was shining. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z I joined a number of dissipated characters, who sought, like me, to lose the sense of their follies and enormities in the most dissolute pleasures. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z That the more dissolute members of the community would spend their money for rum is no reason for depriving the laborer of his hire. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z A negro belonging to the property, who for several months had given way to idle, dissolute habits, at length so far forgot himself as to become a runaway. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Of the female sex, it is said of the Crows, that they, with the women of the Arikkaras, are the most dissolute of all the tribes of the Missouri. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Here he was fortunate in finding friends, who brought his portraits to the notice of Philip IV, a dissolute boy ruled by the Count-Duke Olivares. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z In the interval his wife had developed into one of the most beautiful, and, unfortunately, one of the most dissolute, women in England. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Agreeably to your wishes, I send you the following account of W. B——, who had lived a dissolute life for nearly forty years. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z The dissolute, luxurious, but nobly-aspiring hero and his better angel, Myrrha, derive from the characters of Byron and the Countess Guiccioli a truth of passion that animates the rapid and spectacular action. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The people looked after him curiously as he passed, and many were the whispers to the effect that the prince-royal was a wild and dissolute fellow. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z It is stated that the inhabitants of Manchester were much troubled by the influx of dissolute persons seeking sanctuary. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z The English sailorman does not always express himself delicately, but he is, now, at least, very far from being the dissolute, unintelligent ruffian he is sometimes supposed to be. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z They were attracted only by the premiums offered, and they became dissolute after they had consumed them. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z He married when twenty years of age, and his wife died a year later, when he plunged into a dissolute life in London. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z This is because he was really poisoned by a dissolute woman in revenge for the conversion of her lover by the saint and his consequent dismissal of her. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z The lower city alongside the river and Canal Street, crowded with cheap boarding houses for sailors and dock gangs, reeked in ribaldry and every phase of dissolute excitements. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z Thank heaven, the dissolute tribe in London know nothing of it. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z "He squandered his property by his dissolute life," says one version. The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ 2012-01-07T03:00:14.777Z The foreign people by whom they were surrounded failed not to note the advantage which time and change were preparing for them over their dissolute masters. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z On one occasion, Holt, with a band of dissolute and reckless companions, found himself participator in the perplexing results of a common bankruptcy. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z I never for a moment suspected Edwards to be anything further than an idle and dissolute fellow. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z This workman, though dissolute, had, nevertheless, a reputation in his line second to none. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z When, therefore, he returned to inhabit Florence in 1534, he did so as the creature of the dissolute Alessandro de’ Medici. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Bowing profoundly, the scoundrel departed to execute his dissolute master's commands. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z Some of you may be dissolute now and may look forward to becoming like one of the nice old fellows in a Wordsworth poem. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z He was neither rapacious, drunken nor dissolute, but his loyalty was unselfish, his life pure and his skill no less than his bravery unquestionable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The gitanerias at even-fall were frequently resorted to by individuals widely differing in station from the inmates of these places—we allude to the young and dissolute nobility and hidalgos of Spain. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z If it knows its parents, they must probably be either sickly, or foolish, or idle, or dissolute; or they would not be in a state of permanent pauperism. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z She was not rapacious; she was not dissolute; she could be kept respectable and even contented if she were not made too aware of the contrast between her past existence and her present lot. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z On his complete recovery he became less amenable, and, ignoring his promise, insisted that his sister should wed one of his dissolute companions. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z They were unkempt, dirty, and dissolute in appearance, and I was not altogether surprised to see that most of them were English or Americans. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Wilmot was of course placed under arrest, and was replaced by the dissolute General Goring. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Squire Wiseman in particular gravely assured him that he was encouraging dangerous ideas among a very dissolute and indefinitely corrupt lot of pariahs. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The fifth Lord Fairfax, although his marriage brought the great Proprietary into the family, seems to have been dissolute and extravagant. Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck 2011-11-26T03:00:16.703Z She is a dissolute woman, and Maren gave her out as a spinster; she had a white cap on her head when she came up. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z The dissolute are against Christianity because they regard it as a foe to sensuality. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z He asked no inconvenient questions, but did not deny himself a most dissolute wink. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z The remainder of the day is spent in idle talk, which always runs into quarrels; and the nights in dances, which generally end in dissolute revelry. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z Fraudulent, negligent, or dissolute men he either throws into prison, or deprives of promotion, or fines; of these fines, part is given as a tribute to those in power. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z He was seen no more among the dissolute of Seville, and his money went to the building and decoration of the Hospital and Church of the Holy Charity. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Yazíd, who found in him a fellow after his own heart, "accomplished, dissolute, an agreeable companion and excellent wit, reckless in his effrontery and suspected in his religion." A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z His attitude was that of the one and only righteous man in a perfidious and dissolute world. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z There in 1833 his mother joined him, but after her death in 1835 he fell in with dissolute companions, and became a confirmed drunkard. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z And Mereston wouldn't have me in the house, if you please, because I was a dissolute libertine. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z The venerable man who sat on his right once said to him, that only those families succumbed to drunkenness whose nerves had first been thoroughly weakened by a dissolute life. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z Uthmán's Caliphate, these towns developed a voluptuous and dissolute life which broke through every restriction that Islam had imposed. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z The Compagnacci, or "bad companions," dissolute young men and evil livers, were banded together under Doffo Spini, and would gladly have taken the life of the man who had curtailed their opportunities for vice. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z He soon became famous at court for his prodigality and dissolute manners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Notwithstanding his age, and the dissolute and distracted life he had led, Catesby was still good-looking enough to have produced a favourable impression upon any woman easily captivated by manly beauty. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The duke of Orleans, a weak and dissolute but ambitious man, had conceived the hope of supplanting his cousin on the throne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z He was a man of violent temper and dissolute habits; but he professed repentance for his former courses, and ardently entreated my intercession with Madame. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z The Irish in general are generous and dissolute. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z When the Reformation, therefore, trumped her battle-cry, there throbbed a responsive echo in the hearts of the Netherlanders, long disgusted, as they were, with the excesses of a dissolute priesthood. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Rome had now sunk to the lowest condition; and society, under the republic, had become so dissolute, that its dissolution might be looked for as a natural consequence. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Talents of the rarest order, or regarded as such, do not efface the opprobrium of a dissolute life. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Wanton he is, and gay and dissolute, a good talker, that never falters for a clever repartee. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Yet, notwithstanding his dissolute habits, this clergyman has very frequently occupied a seat at the table of Lord Teynham, and was in the habit of receiving considerable attentions from many of the lordlings in power. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z In a statement, Interpol said it had confirmed reports that Saadi Qaddafi, who had a reputation for dissolute behavior as a soccer player in Italy, was last seen in Niger. Senate Delegation Offers Praise and Caution to Libya?s New Leaders 2011-09-29T21:09:10Z I don't want to hear of your having any more of those all-night carouses here, leaving bullet-holes in your grandfather's portrait, as you and your dissolute gang did the last time I was away. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z These persons had informed the author of the 'Recollections,' that the criminal had been of dissolute life and overwhelmed with debts, and that he had murdered his father to come into the property. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Sir Charles Sedley, of poetical and dissolute notoriety, was a native of this place; as was also Sir Paul Rycaut, the celebrated eastern traveller. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z He was a dissolute, thriftless fellow, every faculty of whose low mind seemed to have been concentrated into the one mean gift of cunning. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z Her superior intellect as well as her love of purity had caused her to avoid taking part in the dissolute and superstitious rites which accompanied many of these Iroquois feasts. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z Order was restored to monastic life, now generally grown dissolute, by a fixed rule of a common table and uniform dress, etc. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z "Presumptuous, apostate from the faith of Jesus Christ, idolatress, cruel, dissolute." The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z At least, first take out of it the drunkard and the dissolute of your own Church. The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle 2011-09-12T02:00:28.837Z After much wandering, they found Gold Cave Camp, but it was in the possession of a wild, dissolute fellow named Tom Edwards. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z "The dissolute beast!" said I. "Had I known it that night at Johnson Hall——" But here I checked my speech and waited till the hot blood in my face was done burning. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z The whole kingdom is given up as plunder to a dissolute soldiery. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z They were dangerous auxiliaries, ever drawing in their train a mob of dissolute women who were themselves no less thievish than the English. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z They live an idle and dissolute life, but are very wealthy, from contributions extorted from the pilgrims. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Yet he controlled not, even in old age, the dissolute lusts of the flesh; and, as is believed, this intemperance shortened his life.” Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z It pursued its way quietly as a royal gem during the reign of Louis XV., adding its lustre to the brilliant but dissolute court of that monarch. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z Early in a girl’s life these handsome, dissolute faces have their own special allure. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z But this language into which I have fallen—not without warrant—should not convey the idea that this man was a commonplace, dissolute spendthrift; far from it. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z They detested Sir Charles for his dissolute life; and they suspected him of being, what he afterwards really proved to be, a ruined profligate, flying from English creditors to this side of the Border. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z It was an article of luridly intemperate style, dissolute grammar, and gaudy rhetoric. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z In the presence of heathenism, of dissolute cities, and of semi-pagan peasantries, she is ever looking wistfully to some costly far-off supply. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z I have been guilty of great idleness, and at times led a dissolute life, but I hope through the mercy of God to be forgiven. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z We must think of him as an accomplished, generous-hearted, impulsive, dissolute wreck of a man. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Not that he returned to training fat or dissolute. Andy Carroll still looking to let out his inner monster for Liverpool 2011-08-13T18:44:53Z Jim—dissolute, turbulent and savage—could yield a lesson too; not a warning only, sometimes a crude but clear example! Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z With kicks and grim mockery the outraged brother expelled the dissolute fellow from the house. Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague 2011-07-27T02:00:26.233Z Nevertheless, being naturally of a sensual and wicked disposition, I, as might be expected, spent a dissolute youth, which often caused great pain and uneasiness to my good and pious mother. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z She was the dissolute mother of a still more dissolute daughter. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Johnnie's own servant was a man called Thumb, a dissolute London fellow, who had been with him for a month, and who had performed his duties in a very perfunctory way. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z But the blue-jay is a dissolute kind of a fellow, after all—"neither more nor less than a thief," Venison says. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Religion is devitalized, and morals have become dissolute. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z For two years after Jean's birth he lived a decent life and then slipped again into hopelessly dissolute habits. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Is bound with Cheatly for heirs, and lives upon them a dissolute, debauched life. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z "Voila!" cried another, "only I, for one, would never believe that we are a jot more wicked or more dissolute than those powdered and perfumed scoundrels that played courtier in the King's bed-chamber." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z He had little difficulty in locating the room where the dissolute ruler of Asturia lay. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z Ashamed of that mad union with a dissolute blackguard, she had concealed it from the husband of her second marriage. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Frederick Augustus of Saxony refrained from imitating his dissolute and tyrannical ancestors, and his land began to recover from its long sufferings. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z I have been guilty of great idleness, and at times led a dissolute life, but I hope through the mercy of God to be forgiven.—W. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z On one occasion a dissolute and desperate miner, named Gilbert, came to Cannon's hotel, which was my boarding house while in Dubuque. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z He has been dissolute; that is no hindrance to a cardinal’s hat or even to the tiara; the folly I dread is more fatal. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z Though I reared you with utmost care and patience, I oft had cause to ponder if you should ever come to any good end, being always of dissolute and unruly inclination. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z In October of the same year Caroline Matilda, the King's sister, married Christian, King of Denmark, an unfeeling, dissolute brute. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z And then, much to his amazement, he found that the harder he worked, the better he felt: the poison of his dissolute living was working toward the surface. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z The performance concluded with the last act of Don Giovanni, in which Colonel Stracey undertook the part of the dissolute "Don." The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z We could make extracts in which the piety would be far, very far, less edifying, would in fact take on the characteristic dissolute French type of moral sentiment. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Both in Rhodesia and the Transvaal he had seen history made, and in the telling of these things he possessed that idle eloquence so often found in men of a dissolute type. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The French language, long so precise, is now among the most dissolute of tongues. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Every builder and mason within reach was already on his side; not a man of them who would work for dissolute hypocrisy in defiance of might and right. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The part of the dissolute "Don" was superbly rendered by Signor Padilla, the eminent Spanish baritone, whose appearance reminded me forcibly of Mario. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z Roman remains abound, and Tiberius, the drunken and dissolute, had twelve palaces there. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Seeing no chair, Carson seated himself next to Abinger on the floor—"two bad, dissolute men, cheek by jowl," said Mrs. Gruyère to herself. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z A top-heavy, remarkably dissolute, and openly parasitic bureaucracy plundered the commonweal of France in its pursuit of power and privilege. America's autocratic way of war 2011-05-12T16:45:00Z During the reign of our late king Edward, this was one of the things in which the idle and dissolute Norman nobility who came over in swarms spent their time. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z In she plunged boldly, no matter how coldly the rough river ran, over the brink of it,—picture it, think of it, dissolute Man! lave in it, drink of it, then, if you can! Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z However, I began swimming, swimming, swimming away for dear life, till at last I got ashore, somehow or other, but never the one of me can tell how, upon a dissolute island. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z His weakness for a clever but dissolute young Gascon, Piers Gaveston, on whom he heaped honours without limit, roused the nobles to rebellion. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Soon after this date, he separated from his wife; or else she left him on account of his irregular and dissolute habits. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He is fickle, cowardly, and dissolute into the bargain. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Sometimes I do, but I wonder really how He could have allowed me to grow unsuspectingly from infancy into dissolute manhood, and then send me here? The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z She carried out her precept by spending her days in the inns, and her nights on the roads, being supported in her dissolute existence by secret means, whereof gossip spoke frequently. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z A son is sent abroad by his father, with the view of reclaiming him from the dissolute course of life which he had followed. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z An astute, dissolute and ambitious man, half French and half Levantine, he began his government by a policy of conciliation and impartial justice which won him great popularity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z A no less important regulation would be, to exclude those of notoriously idle or dissolute habits, and yet who had never been at any incorporated seminary. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z There was a young Sir George Rowland among the first settlers in South Carolina, and, judging from his will, of which I have a copy, he was as dissolute and extravagant as a royal prince. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z In fact, Derry took his own courses, and forthwith fell into all manner of dissolute habits. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Ambitious as Catherine herself—“that mother of a race of kings”—intriguing, notoriously dissolute, not the less did Charles love her. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z When he tried to compel her to marry the dissolute Freiherr of vast possessions, Miss Greta ran away with her governess. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z He was one of the most dissolute princes of the age; and an unbounded luxury and abandoned profligacy were introduced by him among the higher orders in Poland. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z This youth, with some other boys of his acquaintance, and of like dissolute character, was hunting in the forest. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The scene is a dialogue between them, occupied in lamentations and repinings over the dissolute manners of their native Thebes. has the characteristics of Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z A dissolute, dissipated father had left the latter nought but a bad name, and the son had little bettered it. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z On the contrary, I affirm, that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z “Around a young king himself of the most exemplary life and undoubted piety lived a court society as dissolute as our country ever knew.” The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z He was the fierce dissolute cavalier, with a cross-handled sword a yard and a half long, and pointed shoes with long cruel spurs and steel chain-work jingling and clanking as he strode across his castle-hall. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z It was a woman, about forty years of age, the innocent victim of a dissolute husband, who came suffering with labored, stridulous breathing. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Violent and unprincipled as he certainly was, the peculiar dissolute caddishness implied in the anecdotes is probably a misrepresentation of the kind that arises so easily against a man who has no friends. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Their political principles and prejudices were nominally the same; but they were for the most part men of a younger generation, less stiff and English in their demeanour, and more openly dissolute in their morals. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z In Sydney, as elsewhere, he had been known as a dissolute, intemperate man. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z How oddly it happens that the worthy farmer in the chintz waistcoat is always in arrear with his rent, and always stands in the relation of tenant to the dissolute squire! The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z I learnt afterwards that she was an orphan child, born of a dissolute woman in a penal settlement. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z His bearing and behaviour, too, contrasted favourably with those of his drunken and dissolute colleagues. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The Savoyards are a religious, steady-going people, and they have little love either for the weak and dissolute monarch who governs them, or for the powerful, infidel prime minister who governs their monarch. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z The lad then leaves home, falls into dissolute courses, and at last hides himself beyond the seas. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z This duke was a typical Italian ruler, brilliant in display, liberal in giving, harsh in taxing, interested in art and scholarship, crafty and cruel in politics, and shamelessly dissolute in private life. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z She, wishing to have a countercharge to make or to secure evidence to discredit his word, hires various dissolute females to lay traps for him and his friends. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z She had been married and was the mother of two little girls, but left her husband on account of his drunken and dissolute habits. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z And up starts a wild, dissolute bacchanalian glee for seven voices. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z "Did you notice a man loitering about—a stranger—middle-aged, dark-complexioned, with a dark beard or moustache—rather striking in appearance—perhaps a little dissolute?" That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z Both the young kings were cruel, dissolute and wayward, most unworthy sons of a wise father. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z A few days later the younger son got together all that he had and went away into a distant land; and there he squandered his inheritance by leading a dissolute life. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z We found Joseph, Hyrum, Sidney and others chained together in one room, and others confined in other places, amongst the most dissolute associations. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z On the contrary, they had become worse, both being distinguished as among the most dissolute members of the community. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z There is below a company of dissolute fellows, who, between drink and their natural disposition, are very very free of speech. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z But for the female dissolute there is no forgiveness, however we may extra-socially pity or even admire. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z There the wealthy went to exhibit their riches, and the needy to make money, the dissolute to enjoy their pleasures, the mere idler to while away his time. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z Captain Loyola, whom fourteen or fifteen years ago I knew as the handsomest, gayest and most dissolute of cavaliers, dressed in velvets, silks and lace, looks to-day as tattered as any tramp or starving beggar. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z All six are of the same stamp and character, the most dissolute scamps in the country. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z Already volumes have been written of the tragic, gay, dissolute life they have seen, the gorgeous moving panoramas that might have been pictures passing in a looking-glass for all the substance they have left behind. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z There lives near Canterbury, Agnes, a lazy, bad, dissolute man, named Robert Gregory. A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel 2011-01-22T03:00:18.233Z He has forgotten my teachings, he has squandered his substance, leading a dissolute life, and given over to a passion for cards. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z No more dissolute and savage pontiffs, claiming to be Your vicars, O, God of mercy! The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z "The dissolute life he's living demands it; the elegance of the dives demands it." The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z One more addition, and the party is completed; and it is made up by the dissolute friend of the poet, the fat and jovial Froth. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z The eagerness of Carathis may be easily guessed at receiving the letter, as well as her rage at reading the dissolute conduct of her son. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z He seized every opportunity for a visit either to Breslau or to Berlin to resume his dissolute career, to contract fresh debts. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z The somewhat spoiled, modest, and confiding boy is put among students who are already dissolute and overbearing. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z The church offered the richest field for exploitation, and in spite of his dissolute life he impudently prayed the regent to give him the archbishopric of Cambray, the richest in France. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z The nature of flesh and blood is to lead a lawless, dissolute, and voluptuous life, unshackled by restraint, and entirely agreeable to its own will and humor. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The managing class seems to have believed that leisure was dangerous, even for little children, and the poor were made slaves, lest they should become dissolute. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Montpellier and most of the slaves were afterwards sold to pay the debts of Dolly's dissolute son. Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison 2010-12-20T17:12:10.847Z Never was the sweet dream of his childhood days more poignant than in just this period of dissolute play-acting and vain exhibitionism. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Their friend Dr. Rank is usually played as an older man, and a dissolute one at that. | Connecticut: ?A Doll?s House,? Made Contemporary 2010-05-15T01:33:00Z But what harm, O man, canst thou do to God, if even thou shouldst wilfully persist in impiety and a dissolute course of life? True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z “This is a beloved role in Haitian expressive culture, the honest but sometimes dissolute social commentator through music,” said Gage Averill, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Toronto. A Haitian Singer and his Guitar Fight the Urge to Weep 2010-03-05T00:57:00Z The dissolute were denounced whatever their rank, and abuses were fulminated against with unsparing zeal, so that the people were prepared for some great change either of mending or ending. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The fellow gets more and more dissipated and dissolute, and he dare not show his nose now in any decent house; even the bailiffs are sick of him. The Undying Past Scotland is said to have been used from one end to the other, by these dissolute companions, as the theatre of their amusements. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 Oliphant, a dissolute man, had been sometimes in the habit of calling at the house, and she had often thought that she herself was the object of his attraction. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 There he lay down, and fell in an instant into a sleep, disturbed by those frightful dreams that haunt the pillow of the dissolute and the wicked. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 Polemon, the son of a rich Athenian, was a very dissolute youth who squandered his wealth on low pleasure. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius You think, probably, that you have still the foolish, dissolute youth to deal with, who was once weak enough to let you lead him into all sorts of disreputable scrapes. The Undying Past A youth named Pheidippides—obviously meant for Alcibiades—is sent by his father to Socrates to be cured of his dissolute propensities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" To the dissolute and bad the thing remains a frightful mystery. In Jail with Charles Dickens For the most part, undoubtedly, it is the dissolute, drinking, thieving classes of London and other large cities who loudly utter these demands, spurred on to do so by reckless socialists and conspiring anarchists. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands The inhabitants were turbulent, fickle and notoriously dissolute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Heaven completes the disgrace; For now, with her star-pitted face, Night has the leer of a dissolute woman, Cynical, moon-scarred and old. Challenge Ken continued to reveal the same spirit of boldness, however, rebuking the sins of the dissolute English monarch. The Story of Our Hymns In large cities there are women who lead dissolute lives, put away their own children, and then rent themselves out as wet-nurses. What a Young Husband Ought to Know The profligacy of Louis-Quatorze had been palliated by his passion for splendour, among a dissolute people who loved splendour much, and hated profligacy little. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 Prince Jerome has his head-quarters at Breslau, and there keeps a dissolute court; the people still relate how licentiously he lived, and daily bathed in a cask of wine. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. The Seven Sisters Road was the scene of most of his adventures, if adventures they could be called, these dissolute pilgrimages. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Again did enjoyment at the baths become dissolute. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. But his parents troubled precious little about him, seeing that he was growing up a wild, dissolute boy, and the displeasure of Heaven rested on his head. Yiddish Tales The discredit attaching to bowling alleys, first established in London in 1455, probably encouraged subsequent repressive legislation, for many of the alleys were connected with taverns frequented by the dissolute and gamesters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The others are too dissolute, and scandalize me by their love affairs and their quarrels. Marguerite de Valois Garrod spoke of his work on Sundays at a church that was daily gaining adherents, of a dissolute elder brother and an Agnostic father. Sinister Street, vol. 1 These aspirations were not altogether estimable, by turns they became vague, childish, fanatical, stupid, sentimental, and at last dissolute; but beneath might always be discovered the feeling that there was something wanting in German life. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Why is your mode of life so often a reproach to your dissolute friends? The Progressionists, and Angela. Their luxurious and dissolute habits are as much noticed as their insolence. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 What is to happen when, with exhausted means and dissolute habits, this fellow shall find himself in some foreign country? Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Cursed fancies, which have become natural to me through my dissolute life! The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise At an earlier period the life at courts was rough, often wild, now it had become frivolous and dissolute. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. They naturally became each day more lazy and dissolute; and little Julia more bold and brazen-faced. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them There he was as gay and as dissolute as ever, but in his intervals of spare time he wrote a refutation of a work by Amelot de la Houssaye upon the condition of the Republic. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII He was one of the most dissolute of the Merovingian kings, his early death in 567 being brought on by his excesses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" He kept various mistresses and was even prosecuted for unnatural vice, but his sons were equally dissolute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The marriage of a princess was concluded upon reasons of state, and it frequently happened that she was burdened from the very first day with a dissolute husband. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Almost every reader who is familiar with village life will recall poor families which have had dissolute or criminal members beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant, and who still continue to breed such characters. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them She was a princess who had led a dissolute life. On the Heights A Novel How different were the weak and dissolute actors upon that tinsel and tawdry stage from the heroes and philosophers with whom she was wont, in imagination, to associate! Lives of Celebrated Women This reception scene is characteristic of the primitive and somewhat dissolute manners of the time. Maria Edgeworth Men become drunken with the inordinate desire for owning things, and dissolute with ambition for political office. Hempfield A Novel Couldst thou imagine that I was a dissolute girl, or that I was angling for a husband? The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second My Lord Tollington—a Lord of the Bedchamber, a dissolute old fop—very amusing to very young men, but intolerable to all who have seen anything themselves. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) A new actor must now be brought upon the stage—the ambitious, dissolute, and daring Bothwell. Lives of Celebrated Women The vice and immorality prevalent in most of the Pacific Islands is carried to a frightful pitch, doubtless greatly encouraged by the example of the reckless and dissolute mariners. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 His dissolute life had thrown a disrepute upon those who sided with him; and the newspapers, almost without an exception, inclined towards my side. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience There are two classes of sinners, whom the world, however dissolute, will always hold in abhorrence—the shameless cynic and the hypocrite. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second She married a dissolute and brutal actor of the name of Reddish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" If a great estate fell in to him he would be idle and dissolute. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Jenny was maddened by the thought that Irene would believe she had been unable to avoid it, that she had been bewitched by Jack Danby's dissolute accomplishments. Carnival The quiet habits of the city were outraged by the dissolute habits of a camp. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Moulmein is situated up the mouth of a river which ought to flow through South America, and all manner of dissolute native craft appear to make the place their home. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel All the evidence shows that, during the reign of the Omayyads, life in Damascus and the rest of Syria was austere and in striking contrast to the dissolute manners which prevailed in Medina. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The racing and the gambling into which he had been led by dissolute companions. Sir Hilton's Sin The Christian religion was once spread throughout the land; but now it is almost extinct, and the few Europeans left lead a life nearly, if not quite, as dissolute as the natives. The Ruined Cities of Zululand The coming of these girls in such numbers, followed or accompanied as they were by many young Frenchmen of gay, if not dissolute habits, produced a natural change in the aspect of the social conditions. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) Isabel, my child, I shall be very glad indeed if you will stay, and you need not be at all afraid of meeting that dissolute, dissipated young man.” Blind Policy Would that you could pray beside me!—but, no—you are not like the dissolute companions who have now all left me, but you are not yet fitted for that; and, alas! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Of course p. 73he means by the “holy brotherhood” the lazy and dissolute monks. The Religious Life of London The great ballad poet Burger, scorning the tenets of morality, leads a dissolute life; and this life is reflected even in his best work. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The old Prince was a ruffian in every sense of the word—drunken, dissolute, vicious. The Intriguers After the fall of Charles, Dobson was reduced to great poverty, and fell into dissolute habits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" A wild, bold, dissolute conception; showing accessories of surprising drapery, panther skins, cups, etc., an ideal debauch; limbs in wild movement. Black Diamonds There Ptolemy IV of Egypt had died in 203 B. C., leaving the kingdom to an infant son who was in the hands of corrupt and dissolute advisors. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Among the Germans of all times, even the most corrupted and dissolute, this spark of veneration is not entirely extinct. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Afterwards he set up as a dentist in Liverpool; but his dissolute habits were his ruin, and he was obliged to fly from his creditors. The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act A long interval of tranquillity had enervated the planters of Virginia: luxury had introduced effeminate manners and dissolute habits. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia In Aristophanes and the comic poets generally Athenian women of position were dissolute when they were not stupid, and usually they were both. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Like George Sand, her brilliant front was obscured by the cloud of doubt which rested upon her private character,—a matter of which even the most dissolute age will take note, after its fashion. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) Her son, at this time, was very dissolute and avoided meeting her. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Hot blood glowed in his veins, and he became genteelly dissolute; his pride would never allow him to stoop to vulgarity. Hernando Cortez Makers of History This unsatisfactory answer made a most disagreeable impression on Cortes and all of us; for, indeed, we could no longer bear to look upon their barbarities and the dissolute life which they led. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. She found him too dissolute and not sentimental enough. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Madman!" cried Cethegus, in real terror--for he now wished to keep Justinian alive and in power--"to what has remorse and a planless and dissolute life brought you? A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 From place to place she followed her husband wherever he could obtain employ, but of which his idle, dissolute habits soon deprived him. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 During the reign of the dissolute emperors, the virtue of women was but little respected. Roman Women From the Courts "above" he soon descended to those "below;" he became dissipated and dissolute, his hireling pen scrupled at nothing, and he assailed anything or any one, to order. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day As she grew up, a waif in the dissolute city, Apelles, the celebrated painter, is said to have been the first to have noticed her budding beauty and to have educated her. Greek Women He was not a bad man; he was not necessarily vicious or dissolute. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Two weeks afterward came the belated Isaac Todd with the Nor' Westers' white flag at its foretop and the dissolute old Governor MacTavish holding a high carnival of riot in the cabin. The Story of the Trapper He was considering plans of reform which would have been greatly for the benefit of the people; but he was removed to make way for the dissolute, effeminate Syrian priest of the Sun. Roman Women The country where the shepherd lived was ruled over by a dissolute young duke who passed his days in riotous living and his nights in carousing. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales The expression "Corinthian maiden" denoted the acme of voluptuousness, and to "Corinthianize" became synonymous with leading the most dissolute life. Greek Women I was a stupid, unhappy, trembling child, full of poetic fancies, and alone in a dissolute crowd. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June In a generation when authors and royalists were both dissolute, his writings had at least the merit of being untainted by the prevailing vice. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition In the times of the most dissolute emperors, the people of Rome lived chiefly to attend the theatre and the circus; after bread, all they asked for was shows. Roman Women When the fashion of thus wearing gloves declined, “it fell into the hands of coxcombical and dissolute servants.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare Extravagance, debauchery, and dissolute habits were sure to work out in time the attendant ills of wretchedness, destitution, and penury. Greek Women The manners of the age were not only dissolute, but grossly and brutally so. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 However much truth there may be in the stories of the dissolute conduct of Shakespeare, there is abundant proof of the fact that the Bible was one of his favorite books. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 In the most dissolute times, the Roman might live badly, but at least he could die bravely. Roman Women All the restraints of religion had been swept away, and masked balls, gambling, and every species of dissipation attracted to the metropolis the wealthy and the dissolute from all parts of Europe. Josephine Makers of History His face was unshaven and dissolute, but it retained a keen and instinctive intelligence. The Portal of Dreams He hesitated and looked down at his pointed shoes, and at the moment Eden for the life of her could not help thinking of a dissolute young god arrayed in modern guise. Eden An Episode The inhabitants of warmer climates are more dissolute in their manners, and less industrious, than in colder countries. Essays on the Constitution of the United States Her luxurious house by the Tiber was a meeting place, not for men of learning, but for all the idle, fashionable, and dissolute young men of the city. Roman Women The code infidel is got up for the especial benefit of dissolute men; their wives must be governed by another code. Josephine Makers of History Feasting, nocturnal assemblies, and all the demonstrations of a most dissolute joy, were then authorized by the general usage. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning The dissolute Court is extravagant and filled with discord. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens The idle and dissolute inhabitants of the south require a different regimen from the sober and active people of the north. Essays on the Constitution of the United States Neither do I take the other two favorites of Chram to be less pagan or less dissolute than the wild lion himself. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres I can not forget," said he, "that the most dissolute of these men is still my fellow creature. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales These curates, especially two of them, Mounsell and Cooper, be notorious and dissolute men. The Annals of Willenhall No, no.—Immoral, dissolute, hypocritical; that is the character of Lewis Brook.—And shall he the husband of my Augusta? The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts. In Scotland, the houses of the dissolute are always dens of dirt, and disorder, and distraction. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) We shall all get the reputation of being very dissolute lads if the meetings at the Liberty Tree are continued many weeks longer. Under the Liberty Tree A Story of The 'Boston Massacre' Drunken, dissolute, dangerous men were usually on hand to overawe the opposition; the Judge told of instances in which gunplay had developed. The Coming of the Law After a dissolute youth he was said to have given soul to the Devil. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 He enters a monastery where, among the dissolute monks, whose vices are most repugnant, his soul gradually shakes off the Christian dogma. Contemporary Russian Novelists I remember once identifying myself with a dissolute Pole, in a novel, who led me a dance that I haven't forgotten yet. The Crow's Nest The lad lived in utter misery through the brutal tyranny of his tutor, Wilder, a dissolute drunkard, a disgrace to his own times and incomprehensible to ours. Oliver Goldsmith Desperate, dissolute men were imported from Texas and Arizona, men who took delight in the shedding of human blood. The Coming of the Law The chantry chapels in the Cathedral were very numerous, and they were served by an army of idle and often dissolute mass priests. Old and New London Volume I The true Roman race had prematurely died; it came to an untimely end in consequence of its dissolute, its violent life. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The advocate was by birth an Englishman, and a cadet of an ancient family, who, after having spent a dissolute youth and early manhood, had come to Canada. The Advocate In what a dissolute condition la jeune France, with all its bibs and tuckers, must certainly be! The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 The Prince lapsed back into his dissolute habits. German Problems and Personalities This brilliant young poet, so sceptical, so sad, so audacious, so dissolute, was the first of this famous coterie of men to become madly infatuated with George Sand,—but far from the last. Home Life of Great Authors An insubordinate clergy and a dissolute populace quickly felt the hand that now held the reins. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition As he had, possibly, no vices but such as he thought might be openly confessed, so he appeared more dissolute thro’ ostentation. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature While Harry was at church or at the Sunday school, Edward, in company with some dissolute companion, was riding about the adjacent country. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks A memory of a dissolute, imperfect creature—yes! but lovable enough for all that. When Ghost Meets Ghost Louis XV., a pleasure-loving, dissolute man, had surrounded his throne with all the attractions of fashionable indulgence and dissipation. Maria Antoinette Makers of History Yet the bishops of that day were not of dissolute manners; and the accusations are such, that it only proves their willingness to raise charges against them. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors A dissolute and ambitious woman, and, moreover, almost an avowed atheist, she could not have acted from a sincere but mistaken belief that it was her duty to exterminate heresy. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 The owner may go into bankruptcy through a dissolute life, but the entail and the income that flows therefrom remain unseizable. Woman under socialism The worst thorn in her heart was that, changed as he was from the dissolute, engaging youth that she had dreamed of reforming, she still knew him for himself. When Ghost Meets Ghost Two dissolute women, notorious on the page of history, each, in their turn, governed him and France. Maria Antoinette Makers of History He who wastes his early years in horse-racing and all sorts of idleness, figuring away among the dissolute and the foolish, must be content to play an inferior part among the learned and the wise. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III But his grandfather, who spent the greater part of his time in London, was one of the most dissolute men of the Regency. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 The knights, both of country and town, consisted mainly of rough, dissolute fellows, whose principal passion, besides feuds and guzzling, was the unbridled gratification of sexual cravings. Woman under socialism The dissolute Restoration dramatist, Wycherley, was also his temporary companion. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Though neither of them could have cherished any feelings of affection for the dissolute old monarch, it was an hour to awaken in the soul emotions of the deepest melancholy. Maria Antoinette Makers of History Sir Frederick Randall, a dissolute young nobleman, is condemned to imprisonment, under an assumed name, for forgery. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Franklin was the last person to find any enjoyment in the society of vulgar and dissolute men. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series A man is dissolute, they will tell us, because his father was dissolute; just as they will tell us, in the opposite case, that he was dissolute because his father was strict. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) She early discovered that Le Brun was a gambler, a rake, and a thoroughly dissolute and unscrupulous rogue. Vigée Le Brun From that pleasure-loving metropolis two play actors were sent to take charge of her education, one of whom was a man of notoriously dissolute character. Maria Antoinette Makers of History He had failed to imitate the example set by so many saints, among others by St. Vincent Ferrer with regard, to a certain dissolute lady of Valencia; though, indeed, the cases were dissimilar. Pepita Ximenez As he had, possibly, no vices but such as he thought might be openly professed, so he appeared more dissolute thro' ostentation. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare They were made dissolute by force, and by direct command of God! Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures Drunken dissolute villains do not risk their lives for an idea. Arrows of Freethought Dressed in the richest and most costly robes, the dissolute beauty appeared before her judges, and astonished them all by her imperturbable self-possession, her talents, and her cool effrontery. Maria Antoinette Makers of History She was surrounded with a court long demoralized by a succession of drunken and dissolute czarinas, which aped the corruption of Versailles more consummately than its refinement. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 They were, Glora said, people both of this realm and from our great world above—dissolute, criminal characters who now had set themselves up here as the nucleus of a ruling race. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 "It was openly attested that 100,000 women in England alone were made dissolute by the clergy." Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures His Grace ventures also to call the leading men of the Commune "drunken dissolute villains." Arrows of Freethought She had led a dissolute life, and was cursed with an ungovernable temper. Name and Fame A Novel The novelty and the charm soon wore away, and then his beautiful bride was neglected for his former dissolute associates. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 Had he been a dissolute idle scamp, it is unlikely that a respectable woman would have become his wife when he was a mere boy. Bunyan Her husband was assassinated by one of her lovers, as some said, and within three years of his death, repenting, it was believed, of her dissolute life, she took the veil. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 The dissolute men who have written verses have not been great poets. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir They will not vote for a dissolute and disreputable man who may happen to force himself on a party ticket.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Not less diligence did he use, I am told, towards others dependent on him, advising them to eschew vice and avoid the talk of the vicious and dissolute, and to lay hold on virtue. Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes The Vicomte, his brother, "would have been a roué and a wit," he tells us, "in any family but his own," and was, of a dissolute noblesse, its most dissolute member. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. There were many such—Poles, Slovaks, Roumanians, an Armenian or two, refugees, adventurers from America, old, young, dissolute, making a necessity of virtue under that successful oligarchy, the ship's bridge. The Vagrant Duke The haughty and dissolute beauty was piqued by the reluctance which Jeanne had manifested to an alliance which Marguerite thought should have been regarded as the very highest of all earthly honors. Henry IV, Makers of History If by "lower classes" they mean the immoral and dissolute, the refutation appears to be still more complete, for the woman electorate in the 17th precinct is particularly free from those elements. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV They were an idle and dissolute set, greedy for gain, and ripe for any deeds of dishonesty or violence. King Philip Makers of History Rochester was remarkable in King Charles's time, for being a very witty and dissolute place, as I have read in books. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. He found himself, in the midst of a dissolute society, at the head of a great fortune. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges |
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