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  • But he had seen times of plenty, too, when the meat spoiled on their hands, and the dogs were fat and worthless with overeating -- times when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men-children and women-children.

    THE LAW OF LIFE 2010

  • But he had seen times of plenty, too, when the meat spoiled on their hands, and the dogs were fat and worthless with overeating -- times when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men-children and women-children.

    THE LAW OF LIFE 2010

  • Patrick Stewart's Macbeth also attempted to posit sexual excitement as a substitute for spiritual horror, but this excitement was conveyed not through the soaring cadences of Verdi's music but through such gestures as his grabbing at his wife's crotch when he tells her to bear men-children only.

    In the Night Kitchen Greenblatt, Stephen 2008

  • The women transformed themselves to Bacchus shapes, the men-children to

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • You must both live to bring men-children into the world.

    Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

  • When men-children deem maids to be weak and unfit for true sport

    Quotations from Georg Ebers David Widger

  • Summerland, they are sometimes seen of far-walkers, long of tail and long handed, like wizened men-children.

    Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson

  • Thou, the subtle and creeping thing of the ground, shalt lurk after and threaten with crookedness and poison the ways of the men-children in their earth-toiling; the woman, the mother, shall turn upon thee for and in them and shall beat thee down!

    Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 Various

  • When men-children deem maids to be weak and unfit for true sport

    Quotations from Georg Ebers David Widger

  • When men-children deem maids to be weak and unfit for true sport

    Quotations from Georg Ebers David Widger

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