libidinousness

Women of New York: … their air of intelligent libidinousness

2009 January 10 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

Women of New York: … their air of intelligent libidinousness

Part 1: Netherland,Wood, Smith, and the Truly Great 2009

(III. 5) mentions when speaking of that nature of woman, which he thinks suggests to her every possible act of libidinousness: --

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

He was continually embracing and kissing me -- and in the latter indulgence, he often disgusted me beyond measure, by the excessive libidinousness which he exhibited -- I merely mention these things to show the vile and beastly nature of this man, whom the world regarded as a pure and holy minister of the gospel.

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me.

Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me.

Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

The lecturer arose like an outraged moralist to repudiate the scandalous charge of libidinousness.

An Anarchist Woman Hutchins Hapgood 1906

He looks with contempt upon his honest toil; repeats mockingly to himself, his simple talk when at meals, about the weather and the crops; sneers at his neatness, and orderliness, and cleanliness; imputes to him his own libidinousness.

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

His enemies, however, declared that he had no higher wish than to exercise in secret the cruelty and libidinousness to which he was abandoned.

Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852

There are two kinds of study particularly adapted to preserve the mind and the affections from the assaults of vice and libidinousness.

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833