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Mentula — wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Mentula — wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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She praised him with a wanton's enthusiasm — and a virgin's ineptitude.
Hero Come Back Laurens, Stephanie 2005
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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
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See with his orb the wanton's finger play! applied the passage to him, with great applause.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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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.
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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
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Mentula -- wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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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
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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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