obscener

When we turn to what Swinburne calls the "obscener insolence" of the _Blackwood_ article, we find an unrestrained torrent of abuse against both Hunt and Keats that amply justified Landor's subsequent allusions to the _Blackguard's Magazine_.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

Yet I cannot perceive the advantage of letting our ideas be clothed so racy of the obscener soil; considering the pretensions of the

One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

Yet I cannot perceive the advantage of letting our ideas be clothed so racy of the obscener soil; considering the pretensions of the

One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

Yet I cannot perceive the advantage of letting our ideas be clothed so racy of the obscener soil; considering the pretensions of the

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

In a few minutes more the quays were deserted and nothing but the blended murmur, spreading wide and indistinct throughout the camp, and a noisier but occasional burst of merriment from those resorts of obscener pleasure which were profusely scattered along the haven, mingled with the whispers of "the far resounding sea."

Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

His often smutty lyrics -- "Had a love affair with Nina/In the back of my Cortina/A seasoned-up hyena/Could not have been more obscener" -- defined the very English notion of

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His often smutty lyrics -- "Had a love affair with Nina/In the back of my Cortina/A seasoned-up hyena/Could not have been more obscener" -- defined the very English notion of

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