Lexicographical Neighbors of Immodesties
Literary usage of Immodesties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of a National Drama: A Collection of Lectures, Essays and by Henry Arthur Jones (1913)
"The actual pornography on the English stage is more or less veiled, and is not
often of a markedly virulent type. Glaring immodesties ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1898)
"... who oppose to us the immodesties and the debauches of several, as if this were
an infallible proof, that what we threaten them with, concerning hell, ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Nurtured in vulgar lewdness, these delight In jest suggestive, gloating o'er the
plain immodesties that souls corrupt and stain, Whose hideous trail our ..."
4. The Tatler by Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Richard Steele (1822)
"after an hawk, immediately to commence Esquires ? No; our order is temperate,
cleanly, sober, and chaste ; but these rural Esquires commit immodesties upon ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"... all the nonsense of oar house, and the trifles penned by every simpleton find
their way to thee, as into the sink of the immodesties of the whole ship. ..."
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