courtezans

Mr. Wondrich quotes one amazed observer of rough and rowdy California that the saloons had "purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco ... and prettier courtezans" than anyplace in the country: "California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America."

The Old West Nods to the East 2008

Sicilian cookery and Attic confections and Corinthian courtezans, which are to gymnastic what Lydian and Ionian melodies are to music, must be forbidden.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

In a large hall the cloth was laid on a long range of tables joined together, and here the company seated themselves, to the number of about fourscore, lords, and lairds, and other gentlemen, courtezans and cawdies mingled together, as the slaves and their masters were in the time of the

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

But sense will always preponderate; and if women be not, in general, brought more on a level with men, some superiour woman, like the Greek courtezans, will assemble the men of abilities around them, and draw from their families many citizens, who would have stayed at home had their wives had more sense, or the graces which result from the exercise of the understanding and fancy, the legitimate parents of taste.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

With a hillman's stride he moved through the ever-shifting colors of the streets, where the ragged tunics of whining beggars brushed against the ermine-trimmed khalats of lordly merchants, and the pearl-sewn satin of rich courtezans.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

Those, therefore, who were worth millions to-day, robbed by courtezans and stripped at the gaming table, were often penniless in a week -- destitute of clothes and even the necessaries of life.

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

You will be surprised to learn that several of my old schoolmates are now keeping fashionable boarding houses for courtezans in that city and from the business derive a luxurious maintenance.

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

Frank was not much surprised at being thus accosted, for his long residence in New York had made him aware of the fact that courtezans often resorted to that mode of procuring 'patronage' from such midnight pedestrians as might happen to be passing their doors.

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

He is intimately acquainted with the location and condition of every house of prostitution in Boston, and enjoys the familiar acquaintance of many white courtezans of beauty and fashion, not a few of whom (so 'tis said,) testify their appreciation of his valuable services in bringing them profitable custom, by freely granting him those delightful privileges which are usually extended to white patrons only, who can pay well for the same.

Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life George Thompson

Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, several courtezans of the ordinary class were lounging about, or indolently conversing with a few intimate male friends, who were probably their private lovers, or _pimps_.

Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life George Thompson