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  • Lechery always trumps patriotism unless a heart is involved.

    And Now For Something Different In The, Uh, Shooting Sports 2008

  • Lechery doesn't trump patriotism if you also make a contribution to the U.S. team that is $25 or higher.

    And Now For Something Different In The, Uh, Shooting Sports 2008

  • Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!

    Troilus and Cressida 2004

  • Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts.

    Othello, the Moore of Venice 2004

  • Shakespeare magnifies the part of this loathsome but engaging rascal (taken from Book 11 of Homer's Iliad) to make the connection between violence and sex: 'Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion'.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Louisa thought out loud on the points of whether it was politically better for Mike Fitzhugh to have driven out with one girl -- lechery and vehicular homicide -- or two -- Grand Lechery, but accidental death, manslaughter at most.

    Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001

  • Thus Chastity riding an elephant fights with Lechery on the familiar pig in an engraving cited by Tervarent.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

  • To them Pride, Gluttony, Wrath, and Covetousness at one door; at another door Envy, Sloth, and Lechery.

    A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

  • Everywhere the powerful labor to put one another out of worship, and each to stand the higher with the other's corpse as his pedestal; and Lechery and Greed and Hatred sway these proud and inconsiderate fools as winds blow at will the gay leaves of autumn.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Everywhere the powerful labor to put one another out of worship, and each to stand the higher with the other's corpse as his pedestal; and always Lechery and Hatred sway these proud and inconsiderate fools as winds blow at will the gay leaves of autumn.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

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