grossnesses

She had never been tormented by womanhood, and she had lived in a dreamland of Tennysonian poesy, dense even to the full significance of that delicate master's delicate allusions to the grossnesses that intrude upon the relations of queens and knights.

Chapter 14 2010

They dig her grave on the stage; the grave-diggers jest in a way worthy of them, with skulls in their hands; Hamlet answers their odious grossnesses by extravagances no less disgusting.

Voltaire 2007

Pecksniff — perhaps because to one of his exalted nature these were mere grossnesses — certainly did not appear to any unusual advantage, now that he was left alone.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

As of Saturday, I'm still sick--coughing and oozing mucousy grossnesses.

Thank You, My Dears, For Your Patience* Update on Book Giveaways * Bad Agents and Good Parody! Mirtika 2006

As of Saturday, I'm still sick--coughing and oozing mucousy grossnesses.

Archive 2006-05-01 Mirtika 2006

The florid ebullition of sexual troubles, sexual refinements and sexual grossnesses in the Age of Frustration had been a natural consequence of frustration.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Undeterred by those coarsenesses of language and occasional grossnesses of detail (which were often less their own fault than that of the age) that frequently disfigure the pages of "Amelia" and "Roderick Random," men will always be found to yield their whole attention to the story, and to recognize in every line the touches of the master's hand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

So was I tempted into what you may censure as an indiscretion, and said I was in need of one to overlook my family of servants, and be about myself and my girl, who hath picked up some little grossnesses from Pratt that I like not.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Already Lily was seeing him with the critical eyes of youth, his loud voice, his over-fastidious dress, his occasional grossnesses.

A Poor Wise Man Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

I have selected from the great mass of lower middle-class life a group of people who represent certain of its grossnesses, weaknesses, etc., peculiar to our day.

The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912