immodesties

I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is -- her weaknesses, and meannesses, and immodesties, and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet, and her eyes that have never seen the stars.

Chapter 21 2010

Flogging the posteriors is practised in various convents of monks and nuns; from which custom there have sometimes resulted strange immodesties, over which we must throw a veil, in order to spare the blushes of such as wear the sacred veil, and whose sex and profession are worthy of our highest regard.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

They were dressed up as gods and goddesses, and imitated all the immodesties invented in fable — “Dum nova Divorum cœnat adulteria.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I long ago steeled myself against flinching from the so-called “immodesties” of the human body and its processes.

Archive 2006-05-01 Holly 2006

I long ago steeled myself against flinching from the so-called “immodesties” of the human body and its processes.

October 12, 1871 Holly 2006

For some days, exposed to these immodesties, I had to get to the woods before nature would obey me.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

No, our order is temperate, cleanly, sober, and chaste; but these rural esquires commit immodesties upon haycocks, wear shirts half a week, and are drunk twice a day.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she isher weaknesses and meannesses and immodesties and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet and her eyes that have never seen the stars.

Chapter 21 1915

I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is -- her weaknesses, and meannesses, and immodesties, and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet, and her eyes that have never seen the stars.

The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896