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Grossness of Sense, and to know that such Appearances must have their Cause in Nature, tho 'we cannot readily determine where to fix it.

The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

Grossness -- if there had been grossness -- had gone from a face that was purified by pain.

Idle Comments 1905

Grossness, sensuality took the place of fine purity in border designs.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

Grossness disgusts me; but I am not sure that I should be able to resist temptation placed in my way.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

There is besides (and little worse than this) a mutual Grossness in Raillery that sometimes is more painful to the Hearers that are not concern'd in it than to the Persons engaged.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

Grossness and purulence stain the dramatic element in the piece, but when all is over pictures and music have done their work of mitigation, and out of the feculent mire there arises a picture of poetic beauty, a vision of suffering and triumphant innocency which pleads movingly for a pardoning embrace.

Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.

Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources William Alexander Clouston 1869

Grossness and the throne -- the throne which would have gone down under him.

Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Grace Greenwood 1863