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Who would say of the obscene word, the profane oath, or the filthy or impious thought, 'this is mine.
Wherefore it came to stand in place of various words of obscene sound or meaning.
And scores of taunts more insulting and obscene.
This day, almost unintelligible in its success, has proved that Politics possess their obscene side.
The trader's anger ripped out in a crackle of obscene oaths.
He began to mutter savagely obscene abuse.
He was pure of speech and of habit, never intemperate, never obscene, never profane, never irreverent.
The flowery shades and shrines obscene return.
Their licentious lives reflected itself in their obscene language.
She caught her own name; once Chan used an obscene epithet as he spoke of their enemy.
Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene.
They attacked a small station, within which there were but thirteen souls, who, after some resistance, surrendered on condition that their lives should be spared; but they were butchered with obscene cruelty.
And it is notorious, that this same Deputy once insulted all the women present at the theater, and, after using the most obscene language for some time, concluded by stripping himself entirely in presence of the spectators.
Could we, the teachers of a lofty morality, venture to face a prosecution for publishing what would be technically described as an obscene book, and risk the ruin of our future, dependent as that was on our fair fame?
She differed also in the absence of blasphemous, extravagant or obscene speech or action.
He saw that the actual crimes were not the only evils: that stolen jewels and poisoned wine and obscene pictures were merely the symptoms; that the disease was the complete dependence upon jewels and wine and pictures.
Burke's obscene diatribes against the French Revolution were still quoted and admired.
He digs a hole in the ground for his rupees, and broods over them, like a great obscene fowl.
His prose is fiercely satirical, and his poetry as strongly obscene.
They, too, had their blasphemies, often under the cloak of piety; they, too, had their obscene cries.
The same is the case with that diverting, devilish, savory, and obscene series he called Caprices.
The obscene outcries of lost women died away when she approached.
Gibbon's cottage, obscene figures, and unknown contrivances.
This obscene drawing is matched by many equally odious.
The men pursued, calling to her with oaths, curses, obscene words, and jeering laughter.
They flung before his eyes the obscene, unholy shapes of illusion.
"For myself, I am not a painter of obscene subjects and lewd photography."
Goode, to look through her old friend at some obscene and delicious fact, sent up that hooting wordless cry.
They would read and discuss Freud, whom Neville, unfairly prejudiced, found both an obscene maniac and a liar.
In the dens and lairs in which they live they are exposed to all that is obscene and indecent.
And he burst into an obscene tirade against the sex that utterly astonished the guide.
I may silently support all the obscene fictions and forgeries in the universe, without once telling a lie.
Aesthete and libertine alike sink to the lower level of pleasure, and their emotions become obscene.
Then he burst into a roar of obscene blasphemy.
She treats me as if I were some obscene monster just crawled up out of the primeval slime.
Nothing is more hurtful than obscene literature.
Well, give me madmen who drool spittle, and foam at the mouth, and shriek obscene blasphemies.
He is convinced that "Leaves of Grass" is an obscene book, never having read it; yet he knows nothing about the third, eleventh and thirteenth chapters of Second Samuel, having read the Book all his life.
Murders were common and foul, wanton and obscene books found so good a market as to encourage the publishing of them.
The so-called 'obscene' or 'indecent' dance was for the promotion of fertility among animals and women.
From bivouac to bivouac the soldiers exchanged loud cries and obscene jokes.
Obscene words were scrawled on the walls, and even on the pulpit itself.
We must remember, however, that this obscene literature was by no means so diffused as novels are at the present time, and also that Southern familiarity with whatever is natural also served to protect women.
He saw the lords oppressing the poor, sitting long at table, and discussing lewd and obscene matters.
Avoid the use of foul, obscene, or blasphemous language, my lads, as you would avoid the most deadly pestilence.
Not only were the habits of many of the crew dirty, but their manners and ideas were bad, and their language most foul and obscene; cursing and swearing went on all day long, just as a thing of course.
Let the movers in this obscene tumult look to themselves.
These were embellished with cuts finished in a most elegant taste: many of them were grotesque or obscene.
A human entity entirely obsessed by physical pleasure is a revolting and obscene spectacle.
If, therefore, we wish to suppress the sexually suggestive and the possibly obscene we are bound to suppress the whole world, beginning with the human race, for if we once enter on that path there is no definite point at which we can logically stop.
They laugh at our music, they scoff at our arts and twist them into obscene mockeries.
The horrid oaths and blasphemy, the obscene songs, the shouts of maniac laughter, may be better imagined than described.
Such are those who use wanton, or obscene, or profane language.
The trio made a wide circuit so as not to disturb the obscene birds at their disgusting banquet, and in due time found their way back again to their camp, where, after a hearty meal, they set to work in earnest upon the construction of their canoe.
And so they do like some travelling auctioneers, who sing an obscene song, in order to draw a crowd around them.
A drunkard will howl you an obscene chorus the moment after he has wept about his dead child.
He pronounced his classic quotations obscene and indecent.
Mortensen has also been very diligent against dealers in obscene pictures and postcards.
You see nakedness is obscene.
Their humor was obscene, and he was never at a loss for the lewd remark.
Blasphemy had supplanted the one and obscene books had taken the place of the other.
The devotees of that town, in imitation of pagan ones, made libations to this obscene idol.
Vice mopped and mowed and slavered, obscene and hideous, within those gaudy covers.
These "chapters" are almost invariably puerile, savage and obscene.
We must not, of course, confuse with genuine sexual inclinations and acts, cases in which from curiosity alone brothers and sisters indulge together in obscene conversation and even improper practices.
Among obscene pictures and photographs, not a few depict sexual acts performed with children; and there is no doubt that these are sometimes pictures taken from the life, children having actually been photographed in such obscene attitudes.
It is altogether different as regards erotic and obscene books and pictures.
Now Alexander had prevailed with these men, by large gifts, to let him use them after an obscene manner; which, when it was told to the king, they were tortured, and found guilty, and presently confessed the criminal conversation he had with them.
And at thought of the obscene monsters inside those spheres, Thurston's lips were compressed and his eyes hardened.
It was a big school, and occasionally he perceived in the talk and behavior of his companions the signs of some ugly and obscene mystery that he did not understand, and that he had no wish to penetrate.
The editor could either gather together all the epigrams that were not obscene, or he could choose only the best.
He heard the frightful oaths, obscene jests, and blasphemous laughter of the convicts.
A mechanical banjo suddenly added its metallic noise to the din, fit music, it seemed, for such obscene company.
Her talk was obscene, at times flighty, at times definitely scattered.
He, and they as well, expected a discordant, uncouth attempt to scrape out some obscene ditty of the frontier.
A flood of abusive words, the most obscene and filthy she could conjure up, lay on her tongue.
Similar affectations accompany certain truly obscene dances of Samoa, where they are very well in place.
High on the rocket's side, metal slowly peeled back like obscene steel lips opening, and green fire gushed forth.
When there is no sound on the earth except the ticking of the grasshopper, or the croaking of obscene frogs in the pool.
His imagination gave it life, so that the obscene lips smirked, and almost seemed to drool.
She now wore running lights; the red lamp swung into view as he glanced, like an obscene and sardonic eye.
They suggested in obscene terms that their money be refunded.
He growled an obscene oath as he heaved the great oar forward.
Even in the army and the palace are those known to favor their obscene and contemptible doctrines.
Brutality, the obscene even, were preferable to this dreary trickling of the inane masquerading as wit.
We mean the mutilation of the dead bodies (often in a horrible, obscene way) left upon the battlefield.
On the way home, I passed a street corner where boys a few years younger than myself were loitering in obscene play.
There is nothing royal in the creature, only obscene ferocity and a furtive greed.
In the intense life around them, they unavoidably become vicious, obscene, deceitful and violent.
The impure customs of our times have given these songs generally a coarse, if not obscene turn.
Their huge, red eyes glowed, and their bodies shone with an obscene fatness.
It often sacrifices decorum to pleasantry, but obscene words are wholly banished from it.
They are the dealers in commonplace, the readers of obscene works, the originators of every debauchery.
The obscene imagination of soldiers with Algerian habits taxed itself to pollute the accused.
And when he reaches the fatal tree the ribald mob swears and laughs and shouts out obscene jests.
Oaths, curses and obscene expressions resounded on every hand, coming almost as frequently from the women as the men.
Tender, obscene, or comic sentences jostled oddly with one another.
When not alone, I worked with vile men who never allowed much time to elapse without indulging in obscene conversation.
Gestures, too, often intentionally obscene, were regarded as prophylactics on meeting the dreaded individual.
The reviewer put an obscene construction upon it, and imputed to her his own malignant inference.