decadences

My ideal last meal if I were ever on death row — everyone who knows me knows this about me, my morbid decadences — and who better to prepare it than my friend?

Ebola Caleb Das 2010

Emmanuel college is hosting the ‘Empire’ ball in honour of ‘the Victorian commonwealth and all of its decadences’ priced at £136 per head.

More whiney New Labour tofu eating cuntmonkeys: British Empire Ball. FIDO The Dog 2009

A novel about a baker of chocolate decadences who falls in with a vampire she saves with unknown to her magic, whom she fears because of his nature and is unwillingly drawn to.

Ten Things : Books that SHOULD be (really good) movies « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007

People recently removed from Harare were those engaged in illegal activities, illegal vending, smuggling and "all sorts of decadences" one could think of in the world.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

He had already told me that earlier decadences were overrated, or at least consisted of tight-knit upper classes which didn't welcome strangers.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

The rise and fall of these various schools mark a succession of decadences and renaissances of art, each renaissance being distinguished by its own special characteristics.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

We were living then in a strange kind of time, [245] one of those which are wont to come after revolutions, or the decadences of great reigns.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

The new air does but make old decadences seem more stale; the young soil does but set into fresh conditions the ready-made, the uncostly, the refuse feeling of a race decivilizing.

Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

That spirit, so young, so full of life, would I fear have resigned itself with difficulty to the inevitable decadences of age.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Egypt, Greece, and Rome, it could not but share the greatnesses and decadences of the Priesthood and of Royalty.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850