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The sick person should, at this moment, detest anew all the errors of which he is guilty from listening with pleasure to slander, calumny, proposed dishonesty and obscene songs.
He is worse and more nasty than a dog, for in his broad descriptions of others' obscene actions he does but lick up the vomit of another man's surfeits.
He was exerting then his utmost strength of lung against the infamous plot to expose him to the derision of the fiendish associates of that obscene woman!
Their national addiction to obscene practices and conversation proves an insuperable obstacle to the growth of refined sexual feelings.
Brides are subjected to an obscene examination, and if not found pure are supposed to be legally disqualified from marriage.
They are given preferably by moonlight, are apt to last all night, and are often attended by the most obscene and licentious practices.
This was the sight of human flesh, which they found roasting before the fire, as the barbarians had left it, preparatory to their obscene repast.
Savage had only introduced obscene ideas, with a view of exposing them to detestation, and of amending the age, by shewing the deformity of wickedness.
She wondered if by finding a mission in life for the benefit of herself and others in the hope of making the world a less obscene place she would become more indecent than what she was.
An agitated girl was striding from the farther group to the one in which I was, and she addressed the men in the most obscene language which I have ever heard.
Each of these obscene fowls has received a gratification from each of the clean fat men; else the clean fat men would not be in the verandah.
As a matter of fact, social supervision is often so lax that obscene moving pictures and cards that are driven out of the large cities are exhibited without protest in the small towns.
I took the same view myself when in due time I found that I, too, was summonsed on charges ranging from the use of obscene language to endangering traffic.
When written in the vernacular they are not infrequently obscene, for one of the saddest phases of early sentiment here is that it is never innocent; but in English they run to pathos.
In a word, the general is a complete instance of the declension in gay life, by which a young man of pleasure is apt to cool down into an obscene old gentleman.
In this latter volume, with but two or three exceptions, the poems are very obscene, yet I find one or two of Alsop's odes in it.
He still continued to dream exclusively of men, for several years; and the obscene visions became more frequent than the idealistic.
At first the obscene conversation was very distasteful; later he became more used to it, but thought it strange that sex intimacy should be a subject for ridicule and jest.
He indulged also in lascivious reading, the obscene when he could procure it, rather than the merely suggestive, which has never been to his taste.
They are simple, serious and solemn words, connoting the most central facts of life, and only to ignorant and plebeian vulgarity can they cause obscene mirth.
Indeed, the thought that he had longed for such an obscene illusion, that he had gloated over the recollection of that stark mouth, filled him with disgust.
From their childhood their ears were familiar with the most obscene conversation; and as a whole family, to some extent, herded together, immorality was the natural and prevalent consequence.
Picking their way through the crowd of dealers in cigars, shells, and obscene books, who had just been ejected from the boat, they were soon on board.
Both the girl and the "high priest" undressed, and, as she lay on a bed, he compelled her to engage in grossly obscene acts with him.
Many were taking obscene delight in soiling the rugs and filling the sideboard drawers with indescribable filth, using the finest linens that they could lay their hands on.
There are some things that the Southern white man will not tolerate, and the obscene intimations of the foregoing have brought the writer to the very outermost limit of public patience.
We fooled away much of our time looking into the captain's collections of erotic pictures and photographs ... and his obscene books in every language.
She realized that any minute the woods would be full of lads whom the sight of her would change to obscene creatures, and that being consolidated in this undisturbed place they would say and do things that would hurt her so much that they would hurt her child.
The trivial and obscene words, the meaningless and flippant airs run through the heads of hundreds of young people for hours at a time while they are engaged in monotonous factory work.
A man appeared dressed in a woman's wrapper and hat, and capered around the fire to the accompaniment of shrieks of obscene laughter.
One thing I can truly say, and that is, that in spite of false messages, I have never in all these years known a blasphemous, an unkind, or an obscene message.
Asceticism defeats its own purpose because it develops the obsession of licentious and obscene thoughts, the victim alternating between temporary victory over "sin" and the remorse of defeat.
I beg of you, dear girls, shun the companion who seeks to foul your soul with an obscene story or picture, as you would shun the contagion of smallpox.
It was a look of unutterable loathing; his expression was as though he were regarding something indescribably obscene and revolting.
This accounts for the widely felt pleasure in obscene pictures; the beholder is not personally engaged, he can enjoy these pictures without taking upon his shoulders any kind of responsibility.
It expresses a consciousness that the nude can only be alluring, obscene, "indecent," and should therefore be feared and avoided.
In the morning, when taken before the magistrate, he was violent and abusive, using the most frightfully obscene and profane language.
I am therefore surprised that he allows obscene caricatures of the Empress to be publicly sold in the streets and exhibited in the kiosks.
It prohibited the use of the mails for transporting all matter of an "obscene, lewd, lascivious ... or filthy" character, but conveniently failed to define these adjectives.
Almost any printed allusion to sex may be argued against as unbecoming in a moral republic, and once it is unbecoming it is also obscene.
Their utterances are always coarse and obscene, causing much merriment, which is supposed to aid the patient in casting off his illness.
In the end they went too far, the courtier making an obscene comparison between the Virgin Mary and Amina, the mother of Mohammed.
Peter Blood had listened to the intemperate, the blasphemous, and almost obscene invective of that tirade with a detachment that afterwards, in retrospect, surprised him.
Books of this character are usually widely circulated; and their pernicious influence is fully as great as that of works of a more grossly obscene character.
The tongues that had lied all day, and been treacherous and obscene and respectful by easy turn, said nothing more; and he thought it was very good that they were all hidden, and that for a little time the world might swing darkly with the moon in its own wide circle and its silence.
Being discovered and repulsed by the young novice, he varied his method of attack, and annoyed him night and day with filthy thoughts and obscene imaginations.
He is usually represented naked and obscene, with a stern countenance, matted hair, crowned with garden herbs, and holding a wooden sword, or scythe, whilst his body terminates in a shapeless trunk.
They use not merely that frankness of speech which was a fashion of the times, but a profusion of obscene imagery which could not proceed from a pure mind.
The herders were rough, hearty souls, for the most part, often obscene and rowdy as they sat and sang around the camp fire.
Pain can be entirely sensational; and in this case it needs a very passion of love to prevent it becoming obscene and humiliating.
The figures themselves were sometimes obscene, but not commonly: often mermaids, still more frequently hearts and darts; sometimes the name, or the initials of the prisoner.
Our streets were ever resounding with the echoes of their drunken and obscene mirth, and no citizen was secure from their villainy.
He had just finished an Arabic translation of a French novel, and he was picturing to his friends Margaret as the heroine of the obscene romance.
Of popular delusions one of the most striking and recurrent examples is the belief that new and despised religious sects, which are forced to meet in private, practice obscene and abominable orgies.
The fiction that is devoted to obscene realism, whatever may be the prestige of its authors or its current vogue, is surely doomed.
The old man held up a fat toad, which, he said, was his familiar, and the company began to worship it with grotesque and obscene ceremonies.
He who possesses her should guard her with vigilance; neither suffering her to be polluted by obscene, nor degraded by dull and frivolous works.
Even if publication had been proved, there would still have been no reason for the lords' interference; for obscene and profane publications were punishable by law.
The idea of polygamy had seemed obscene when Edward first mentioned it, but the longer he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed to become.
Some people, she knew, would think this obscene, be uncomfortable or worse at taking such nourishment directly from its source instead of from chalice or plate.
The marvel was how the editor had contrived to carry intact that innocence of his through the horrors of his obscene profession.
In the society of obscene criminals, with whom many were imprisoned, they prayed for speedy deliverance by death, and death often came to their help.
It was as if a skillful yet unscrupulous musician were constructing a revolting medley, placing the sacred song in juxtaposition with the obscene ditty.
The Romans, sure of this prize of their obscene revels, and wishing to take it alive, consulted a moment on a plan of attack.
The fine edifice of vengeance he had been so skillfully erecting had toppled about his ears in obscene ruin, and he was a man not only broken, but dishonored.
The very heavens had been fouled by this obscene and pallid worm, crawling over those eternal verities to which eyes had been lifted for light when night and trouble were over dark.
After indulging in the most obscene and lecherous preliminaries, the full measure of their iniquity was consummated, I being a witness to the whole disgraceful scene.
Some were dressed as males, others as females; and many of them, in fearful mockery of death, had been placed in attitudes the most obscene and indecent.
And this obscene, mad-dog policy, so difficult even to imagine at this time, was by curious devious ways identified with Socialism.
Are the instincts of woman so low that unless man puts up a bar, she will immediately fall into man's obscene conversation and disreputable habits?
All obscene ideas offend this sense of shame to such an extent that they are regarded as alien to nature, ugly, and uncivilized.
The problem was whether to print a large collection of epigrams, rejecting merely the obscene ones, or to choose only the best.
For ages the moon has been an object of worship by various religious sects, and some of the most obscene orgies of which we have record occurred in the moonlight.
She had to be kept in the continuous bath, talked continuously, whistled, sang, was markedly erotic towards the physician, careless in exposing herself and often obscene in her talk.
His soft chuckle came through the darkness like an obscene applause of a successful villainy; it was as if he were gloating over her folly and the rectitude of her mind.
It is a wicked, an abominable passage, and I would no more allow an intelligent child to read it than I would allow him to read an obscene book.
I never wore it, of course, but it would have been criminal to have thrown away such a magnificently obscene example of bad taste as that.
And a series of toasts began, toasts worthy of the lowest soldiers and of drunkards, mingled with obscene jokes, which were made still more brutal by their ignorance of the language.
On the road the prisoners were subjected by every passer-by, to petty insults, the point in every case, more or less obscene, being the color of their skin.
Coarse jests now echoed in the workshop instead of the many pleasant talks of former days, and in place of Frederick and Reinhold's agreeable singing were now heard low and obscene ditties.
Gestures render their figures of speech more comprehensible; with the cynicism of dogs, they call everything by its own name, in an impious and obscene parade of oaths and curses.
Women were burned as witches; and the general references to them in the literature of the period of decline are usually vulgar, and not infrequently obscene.
The import of this inextricable tangle of imagery, often obscene and horrible, often quaint and fantastic, is difficult, if not impossible, to determine.
The Scots stared at this figure, and their line parted and swept each side of him, as though some obscene specter barred the way.
The ascetic, stainless priest in him stood off and looked at this dog of the gutter with his obscene talk, and then came defeat of soul and body.
Not far from that group, two statues of bronze that age has turned green represent the obscene figures of a fawn and a nymph.
Modesty and a becoming Blush is the Fence of all Virtue; and when this is broken down by obscene talk, the Banks will overflow with impure Streams.
He tried to curse his adversary as a weakling and a degenerate, but the obscene words he sought for would not come to his lips.
This favor, however, he lost in 1523 by writing a set of obscene sonnets, to accompany an equally immoral series of drawings by the great painter, Giulio Romano.
The love of amusement grew upon the Roman character as civilization developed in organization and splendor, and unfortunately the favorite amusements were often obscene and cruel.
In 1744 Edwards was informed that a number of the young people of his congregation, of both sexes, were reading immoral books, which fostered lascivious and obscene conversation.
Owls, bats, carrion crows, and other obscene birds would be found perched on the head of her grave, and, scared at the footsteps of a stranger, would fly screeching away.
Crowds of people were sitting or lying in the state apartments, eating, drinking, smoking, and singing obscene ditties, or wantonly but deliberately pursuing the work of dismemberment.
In the witches' kitchen, which he next visits, pleasure is still more ugly and shallow; here the din is even more nonsensical, and the fancy more obscene.
To me there was something pathetic, and yet obscene, in this shameless exhibition of big, strong men clad like warriors, showing the fear and wonder of little children.
"You tell them," said I to the guard, "that they'll be sorry for this a little later," at which our friend harangued the crowd, which for an answer laughed and made obscene gestures.
We mention an instance which manifestly shews, that the Indians look upon the obscene devotions just alluded to, as highly meritorious.
These girls carried off their obscene statuettes to the park and searched out a flat stone to serve as an altar, in a corner which henceforth they did not leave.
In the streets one heard everywhere the loud jests of the vulgar, decked out with filthy anecdotes and punctuated by obscene laughter, as from the mouth of the Pit.
"Now observe, Miss Torrington, that what you have been pleased to call levity and poetry, I, in my clerical capacity, denounce as indecent and obscene."