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The bordels of boys (pueris alienis adhæseverunt) appear to have been near the Temple.
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At last the Athenians, according to Æschines, officially punished Sodomy with death; but the threat did not abolish bordels of boys, like those of Karáchi; the Porneia and Pornoboskeia, where slaves and pueri venales
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Goe, serche the logges [1] and bordels [2] of the hynde [3];
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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This fisherman's child, workhouse girl, ancilla of the bordels, with the thin smattering of the three R's she had acquired in the poor institution, set herself, with a wholehearted concentration which a Newnham ` swot 'might envy, to master modern languages, with Greek, Latin, and music.
She Stands Accused 1935
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But it led him surely enough to Westgate, and the spot occupied in Norman times (as he recalled) by five bordels or shanties, where any belated traveller ( 'such as I to-night,' thought the colonel) arriving after the gates were shut, might find hospitality for the love of God.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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And S. John came in to a city and went unto all the bordels of common women and said to each of them by order: Give me this night and do no fornication.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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The bordels of boys (pueris alienis adhæseverunt) appear to have been near the Temple.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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At last the Athenians, according to Æschines, officially punished Sodomy with death; but the threat did not abolish bordels of boys, like those of
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Fear seized the lad, who then followed me to the hostelry in a state of agitation, and not daring to cast his eyes upon the said bordels.
Droll Stories — Volume 3 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Fear seized the lad, who then followed me to the hostelry in a state of agitation, and not daring to cast his eyes upon the said bordels.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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