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  • But for the country fellow just come into the city, there were guides like 'Hints to Men About Town' or 'Water Fordiana' or 'The Man of Pleasure's Pocket Book,' which described the intimate attributes of well-known prostitutes, their addresses, and sometimes their prices.

    Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels 2011

  • But for the country fellow just come into the city, there were guides like 'Hints to Men About Town' or 'Water Fordiana' or 'The Man of Pleasure's Pocket Book,' which described the intimate attributes of well-known prostitutes, their addresses, and sometimes their prices.

    Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels 2011

  • For example, in the third essay, ˜Pleasure for Pleasure's Sake™, a still-classic critique of hedonistic utilitarianism, Bradley argues that its individualism is insupportable, as is its hedonistic conception of happiness as a pleasurable state identifiable independently of the means by which it is attained (so that it could in principle be achieved more conveniently than through moral behaviour).

    Francis Herbert Bradley Candlish, Stewart 2009

  • But love should have kept Mr. Double Your Pleasure's hands on the wheel of his Lamborghini.

    Leighann Lord: Sweet Dreams, Chris Brown 2009

  • Pleasure's being based in, or closely connnected with, some such nonspecific systems could explain its promiscuity, which sets its instances apart from particular beliefs and other attitudes inseparable from their contents.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • King Pleasure's words followed James Moody's famous recording of "I'm in the Mood for Love."

    The Great Society The Daily Growler 2006

  • I said it was a pleasure to meet him, and he wrote 'Pleasure's all mine'.

    Archive 2006-03-01 annawaits 2006

  • I said it was a pleasure to meet him, and he wrote 'Pleasure's all mine'.

    Those Desert Island Eight annawaits 2006

  • Dame Pleasure's toy > love-making, lust (Dame Pleasure = Venus; toy = amorous game) 101.48

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • Thy babe and Pleasure's, nursed the pow'rs of song!

    Ode to Simplicity 1919

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