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Examples
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A youth must be strong minded to abstain from lust,
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Might carry in his bosom the foulest kind of lust,
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CHAPTER NINETEEN THE CRYSTAL TALISMAN The horror from the primal slime lived on to slake its fiendish lust,
Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968
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Pratipa answered, 'O thou of the fairest complexion, moved by lust,
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Look where some subtle throat, that once had wakened lust,
The New World Witter Bynner 1924
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Nay, there is no God! But He, whose other name is Pitiful, was pleased By melting gentleness whose measures broke The ramps of ignorance and keeps of lust,
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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She thought he blushd, as knowing Tarquins lust,
The Rape of Lucrece 1914
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P: But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Otherwise it tends to degenerate towards the Shakespearian lust,
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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"Drop your sermons," shouted the rascals, inflamed with carnal lust,
Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896
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