ribaldries

After all, many of the so-called ribaldries and profanities reported by him of the

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

After all, many of the so-called ribaldries and profanities reported by him of the Army Sectaries turn out innocent enough, or only very rough jokes, as when a soldier told a godly old woman that, if she did not believe in universal redemption, she would be damned.

The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

On gray mornings when the jests of the night before had shrunk to ribaldries without wit or dignity, they could, after a fashion, bring out this batch of common hopes and count them over, then smile at each other and repeat, by way of clinching the matter, the terse yet sincere

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Of the pamphlets published against him he said, "These vile ribaldries would raise the ire of a turtle-dove."

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

I had been almost a total abstainer all my life, and though I drank a little of it out of complaisance I thought the canteen tack the nastiest stuff I had ever tasted The depot barrack-room in which the recruits slept until the time of their deportation echoed morning, noon, and night with unmeaning ribaldries and obscenities, and was stale with the smoke of bad tobacco and the fumes of that most indifferent beer.

The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray

In the discussion which ensured, Bishop Warburton, forgetting that such ribaldries could not really tarnish his character, showed a heat which little became it.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

But its delicate and reverent ribaldries would shock no one under the screen of a different tongue.

Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis 1937

On gray mornings when the jests of the night before had shrunk to ribaldries without wit or dignity, they could, after a fashion, bring out this batch of common hopes and count them over, then smile at each other and repeat, by way of clinching the matter, the terse yet sincere Nietzscheanism of Gloria's defiant "I don't care!"

The Beautiful and Damned 1918

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

A Book of Prefaces 1918

I ought to say that he had a punk of his there, and was going on with his stupid ribaldries to amuse her.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910