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Or maybe the story line is "Deluded Democratic Sycophants Shout Shrill Inane Defenses Of Sleezy Senator and Licentious Lobbyist" No wonder you trolls love Postman, if the story isn't to your liking, he simply ignores it.
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His Puritan counterpart in America, Cotton Mather of Boston, whose outrage would carry over to the Salem witch trials, chimed in: "Christ's Na-tivity is spent in Reveling, Dicing, Carding, Masking and in all Licentious Liberty."
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THAT’S the best you can do, PLC Phony Licentious “Christian�
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Licentious love will be the main reason of the long-standing grudge.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Licentious love will be the main reason of the long-standing grudge.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Licentious conduct is no longer a venial offence; gross and immodest expressions are no longer allowed in respectable society.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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Licentious and avaricious, he amassed great wealth; and when he died on the 25th of October 1292 he left numerous estates in Shropshire, Worcestershire, Somerset, Kent, Surrey and elsewhere.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Licentious phrases and actions were universal in Shakspere's time, and from the corrupt courts of King Henry the Eighth, Elizabeth and King James, to the cot of the peasant and trail of the tavern, morality hid her modest head and only flourished among the puritans and philosophers who kept alive the flame of love and liberty.
Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce
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Will the Strictnesses of Virtue and Religion be ever relished by a Mind tinctur'd with such Licentious Representations?
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_Licentious_ and _Unbounded Liberty_ the Players have taken of late years, and particularly in their daring to Act THE TEMPEST within a very few Days after the late dreadful Storm, has rais'd in the Minds of Men such an Abhorrence and Indignation, that we may possibly be so happy as to see the Stage (if not _totally suppress'd_) yet brought under such a
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