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  • Mentula — wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Mentula — wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • She praised him with a wanton's enthusiasm — and a virgin's ineptitude.

    Hero Come Back Laurens, Stephanie 2005

  • For instead of "venial" it should be "venal," since such is the wanton's trade.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • See with his orb the wanton's finger play! applied the passage to him, with great applause.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • This Margot, who had just taken off her gloves to drink her wine, had large, red hands, and seemed as silly as a goose, but all the same she was a beautiful creature, and the poet began to talk to her, while she laughed and looked at him with a wanton's eyes.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • See with his orb the wanton's finger play! applied the passage to him, with great applause.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Mentula -- wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • I remember also that I ate at table opposite a pretty girl, with a wanton's heart, who prattled to me, because I was an Englishman, as though no war had come to make a mockery of love-in-idleness.

    The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

  • Oh, very long ago I found your beauty mirrored in a wanton's face! and often in a woman's face I have found one or another feature wherein she resembled you, and for the sake of it have lied to that woman glibly.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

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