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  • "Flung from this earth by my own wantonness!" she cried just as her husband dashed back home, shouting, "Thief!†   (source)
  • But you can't indulge in wanton violence.†   (source)
  • Nathan was made feverish by sex, and trembled afterward, praying aloud and blaming me for my wantonness.†   (source)
  • It was the ultimate violation of the New Bushido, worse in its way than the wanton murder of civilians.†   (source)
  • She is fresh and innocent—and here is James's brilliance—so innocent as to appear to be a wanton.†   (source)
  • I shook my head scornfully " 'Wanton,' I said to her, 'A gentleman's dignity isn't in his clothes.†   (source)
  • We wantonly spun a Currier and Ives image for them of waking up on Christmas morning to a starkly white landscape, unblemished except for the solitary tracks of Santa's sleigh outside our front door.†   (source)
  • She appreciated his comfort with his own body, and his wanton attitude to hers, and the rhythm and strum of his touch, and his beauty, his animal beauty, and the pleasure he evoked in her.†   (source)
  • Along with Buffalo Jones, who lost his money and then his mind (the last years of his life were spent haranguing street groups against the wanton extermination of the beasts he himself had so profitably slaughtered), the glamours of the past are today entombed.†   (source)
  • Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, after all, was arrested and charged with war crimes in part because of his wanton use of child soldiers in waging the bloody conflict that led him to power.†   (source)
  • On May 10, the same day the New Yorker magazine reported "numerous instances of 'sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses— in its cover story, "Torture at Abu Ghraib," Adam sat down on his bunk at the end of a fifteen-hour workday in Mosul.†   (source)
  • The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds— discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.†   (source)
  • The ultimate wanton.†   (source)
  • She was so easily sharpened, so easily driven to wanton violence.†   (source)
  • He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.†   (source)
  • "Are you implying that I lead a wanton and half-mad life?" the Gentleman Caller asked with a chuckle.†   (source)
  • "Every officer that stands an idle spectator, and sees such a wanton . waste of powder, and doesn't do his utmost to suppress the evil, may expect to be reported," declared Nathanael Greene.†   (source)
  • They were animals, killing wantonly without reason or authorization and stealing millions.†   (source)
  • Some slaked their dread in drink and their loneliness in wanton caresses.†   (source)
  • What wanton liars love makes of us, she thought.†   (source)
  • Who is the most fearful, the most wanton, the hungriest for favor?†   (source)
  • You believe all of this is being wantonly destroyed by language barbarians among your fellow citizens, who, if you speak up, make you sound out of touch, hopelessly old-fashioned, and quaint in your concerns.†   (source)
  • It is the orc-work, the wanton hewing — rarum — without even the bad excuse of feeding the fires, that has so angered us; and the treachery of a neighbour, who should have helped us.†   (source)
  • But of course I was over-hopeful and naive, and should have known that he or she would likely be the product of a much less dignified circumstance, a night's wanton encounter between a GI and a local bar girl.†   (source)
  • This charge is wanton and malignant.†   (source)
  • The people on the lake, the newest in the long line of homeless victims of Kessell's wanton destruction, watched helplessly as their homes fell in smoldering splinters.†   (source)
  • In Washington the American president condemned the bombing as "a wanton act of murder and barbarism," though, curiously, he made no mention of the perpetrators' motives or of Islam, radical or otherwise.†   (source)
  • Involuntarily I felt my sympathy warming toward him, for, in truth, it was a disgusting exhibition of wanton passion.†   (source)
  • The salmon-hued walls seemed to acquire a wanton glow, and I vibrated with inward pleasure.†   (source)
  • Katherine was no wanton trull but a lean chestnut-haired beauty, and smart to boot.†   (source)
  • He wondered how she had dared such wantonness.†   (source)
  • As flies to wanton boys.†   (source)
  • The law will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imagination and wanton tempers of men…… Gentlemen of the Jury—I am for the prisoners at the bar; and shall apologize for it only in the words of the Marquis Beccaria: "If I can but be the instrument of preserving one life, his blessings and tears shall be sufficient consolation to me for the contempt of mankind!"†   (source)
  • I care not for those ladies that must be wooed and prayed. Give me kind Amaryllis, the wanton country-maid.   (source)
  • A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.   (source)
  • The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.   (source)
  • It isn't wanton or wild sex, but it's still sex.†   (source)
  • No true knight would condone such wanton butchery.†   (source)
  • His first marriage ended in a tragic act of wanton slaughter — that's when his story began for us.†   (source)
  • Wanton brutality is no way to win your people's love …. or your queen's."†   (source)
  • Look well, for it will be yours unless we defeat the curse wanton fate has set upon us.†   (source)
  • I have sinned, I have committed wanton fornication, but I did it for Tommen.†   (source)
  • Even Lord Stirling's mansion, at the corner of Broad and Beaver streets, was wantonly ransacked.†   (source)
  • Their hilts were a matched pair of golden women, naked and wanton.†   (source)
  • The sight of so much wanton destruction sickened him.†   (source)
  • What now might he think of her, having seen her so wanton and shameless?†   (source)
  • She teased him with smiles and soft words and wanton looks, and made his nights a torment.†   (source)
  • Would he think me wanton too if I pulled him into bed?†   (source)
  • Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous.†   (source)
  • His strong hands caressed the hilts of his matched blades, those wanton golden women.†   (source)
  • The shift in mood—the grisly chronicle of Warsaw, followed in a flash by this wanton playfulness.†   (source)
  • As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.†   (source)
  • I think we should frown on the wanton destruction of societies, on the enslavement of conquered peoples, on keeping concubines, on wholesale slaughter.†   (source)
  • The word "Lolita" almost immediately became a staple in titles of a certain kind of pornographic film: Teenage Lolitas, Wanton Teenage Lolitas, Really Wanton Teenage Lolitas, tides like that.†   (source)
  • Aside from wanton ones.†   (source)
  • Again she succumbed to the wanton attraction of Blodhgarm's odor, imagining what it would feel like to run her hands through his mane.†   (source)
  • The airport] Where the trap was in progress] Did she give her wanton body to a dedicated man, drugging him, perhaps?†   (source)
  • The Cinnamon Wind was a swan ship out of Tall Trees Town on the Summer Isles, where men were black, women were Wanton, and even the gods were strange.†   (source)
  • They had not come very far from the road, and yet even in so short a space they had seen scars of the old wars, and the newer wounds made by the Orcs and other foul servants of the Dark Lord: a pit of uncovered filth and refuse; trees hewn down wantonly and left to die, with evil runes or the fell sign of the Eye cut in rude strokes on their bark.†   (source)
  • For in my own way I comprised it, my yearning and wishing and my wanton hope, the sum of which, at end, amounted to a complete and utter fraudulence.†   (source)
  • ROBIN AND IDWAR'S parents, Daldoum and Smira Dikori, were relatively well off before this campaign of wanton violence began.†   (source)
  • In the Reach men said it was the food that made Dornishmen so hot-tempered and their women so wild and wanton.†   (source)
  • Into my heart" The hilts of Daario's arakh and stiletto were wrought in the shape of golden women, naked and wanton.†   (source)
  • He whispers in my brother's ear that he should rule after my father, that it is not right for men to kneel to women …. that Arianne especially is unfit to rule, being the willful wanton that she is."†   (source)
  • He made her want to be his wanton.†   (source)
  • You are as wanton as your mother.†   (source)
  • But they shall help to rebuild Isengard which they have wantonly destroyed, and that shall be Sauron's, and there his lieutenant shall dwell: not Saruman, but one more worthy of trust.'†   (source)
  • A man I knew casually had her in his arms, and she placed her hands behind his neck, offered her lips, drew his face down to hers, and gave him a wanton kiss.†   (source)
  • It was a sanctuary where women could be themselves--smelly, wanton, mystic, conceited, truthful, and interested.†   (source)
  • She wiggled toward me, a wanton nymph with moist and parted mouth, and now bending down over my bare belly, crooning her glorious obscenities, prepared to take between those lips unkissed by my own the bone-rigid stalk of my passion.†   (source)
  • God knows what might have happened had she really been the wanton and experienced playgirl she had impersonated; she was so ripely desirable that I don't see how I could have failed to become her slave.†   (source)
  • But now her distress was compounded by the way it upset the fragile balance of her newly renovated psyche, by the manner in which this looting of her soul (for she felt it to be that as much as her body) not only pushed her back toward the cauchemar, the nightmare from which she was ever so delicately and slowly trying to retreat, but actually symbolized, in its wanton viciousness, the very nature of that nightmare world.†   (source)
  • …a school dance, when one of those artful little coquettes I have mentioned—of which Leslie was such a cherished antithesis—took me over all possible fraudulent jumps: breathing on my neck, tickling my sweaty palm with her fingertip, and insinuating her satin groin against my own with such resolute albeit counterfeit wantonness that only an almost saintly will power, after hours of this, forced me to break apart from the loathsome little vampire and make my swollen way into the night.†   (source)
  • He felt certain that O'Brien was about to twist the dial out of sheer wantonness.†   (source)
  • They loved riding, they risked their lives wantonly, they were not great readers either.†   (source)
  • One destroys not a thing of beauty wantonly.†   (source)
  • Looking back, it seems everything was done without care or consideration, clumsily, wantonly.†   (source)
  • His thin black hair, fine spun, was fanned lightly from its elegance by a wantoning breeze.†   (source)
  • All her hair fell down about her like thick corn-silk, in a sweet loose wantonness.†   (source)
  • When he left, she was a wanton.†   (source)
  • If it failed, it would ruin the already diminished prestige of his administration; success or failure, it would be looked upon by peace advocates and the border states as wanton aggression.†   (source)
  • I felt that if white men tried to persuade two black boys to stab each other for no reason save their own pleasure, then it would not be difficult for them to aim a wanton blow at a black boy in a fit of anger, in a passing mood of frustration.†   (source)
  • Wantonness is weakness.†   (source)
  • It was composed in a wanton moment by the Dean of the Divinity School on a moonlight night in July, 1776, while sobering up in a Turkish bath.†   (source)
  • The idea of enjoying what your English headmasters call the mimic warfare of the playing field would seem to them entirely barbarous--indeed, a sheerly wanton stimulation of all the lower instincts.†   (source)
  • And he would go, either struggling clumsily and screaming eloquent abuse at his suppliant captors, or jovially acquiescent, bellowing a wanton song of his youth along the latticed crescent, and through the supper-silent highways of the town.†   (source)
  • To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rendthe thin veils of civilization so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.†   (source)
  • He expressed admiration for all the great historical styles, but admonished against their wanton mixture.†   (source)
  • " 'Callously wicked,' wantonly cruel.'†   (source)
  • A secret wanton laughter kept arising to his lips, but never issued, gurgled in his throat instead with a gurgle of pain.†   (source)
  • In the second place any sexual infatuation whatever, so long as it intends marriage, will be regarded as "love", and "love" will be held to excuse a man from all the guilt, and to protect him from all the consequences, if marrying a heathen, a fool, or a wanton.†   (source)
  • For a moment the khaki mob was silent, petrified, at the spectacle of this wanton sacrilege, with amazement and horror.†   (source)
  • …chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.†   (source)
  • A-wantoning wi' monsters and lunaticah," continued the victor as she led her helpless captive from the stricken field.†   (source)
  • Well, that's what's hanging over the world, prowling somewhere through mankind, that same thing, something closed, mindless, utterly wanton, but something with an aim and a cunning of its own.†   (source)
  • He was cruel, too, in the wanton, insect-maiming manner of the very young, and fearless like a little boy, charging, head down, small fists whirling, at the school prefects.†   (source)
  • I don't understand how you can have been so nice in so many ways, and then do something so wantonly cruel.†   (source)
  • It might well be, said Mrs. McNab, wantoning on with her memories; they had friends in eastern countries; gentlemen staying there, ladies in evening dress; she had seen them once through the dining-room door all sitting at dinner.†   (source)
  • In a moment, he strode away, and the doctor turned to Falstaff, reading the man by his padded belly, briskly, with relief: "Now, Tragedy, begone, and to our dell Bring antic Jollity with cap and bells: Falstaff, thou prince of jesters, lewd old man Who surfeited a royal prince with mirth, And swayed a kingdom with his wanton quips—"†   (source)
  • You must let me save you from more wickedness—more wanton bloodshed—†   (source)
  • Not wanton killing, but a judicious slaying.†   (source)
  • " 'tis strange how my memory doth wanton with me these days," said Tom.†   (source)
  • He killed to eat, not from wantonness; but he preferred to eat what he killed himself.†   (source)
  • Of this poor heart, which the cruel wanton boy….†   (source)
  • Yet some of his experiments, by the journalist's account, were wantonly cruel.†   (source)
  • He had scoffed; he had wantonly associated with the reckless and the lewd.†   (source)
  • Nobody seemed interested in the wantonly imperilled life.†   (source)
  • The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.†   (source)
  • It was wanton slaughter, and all for woman's sake.†   (source)
  • It was the wantonness of it that stirred me.†   (source)
  • If she's townish and wanton it med bring 'ee to ruin."†   (source)
  • "Well—I know what it is to have a wanton mind o' my own, too!†   (source)
  • Where was the grandeur of life that it should permit such wanton destruction of human souls?†   (source)
  • 'O, I never can forgive the wanton cruelty of Uncle!'†   (source)
  • All this wasteful, wanton chess-playing IS very strange.†   (source)
  • 'Now, good people all,' said he, 'this is wanton waste of time.†   (source)
  • She felt a wanton hand straying over her.†   (source)
  • "Ay! that is another of their wanton wickednesses!" exclaimed the trapper.†   (source)
  • Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him.†   (source)
  • Come, now! you wanton wretch, were not you apprehended by the watch in that bad company?†   (source)
  • The only liberty, taken by Middleton, was to add—"May no wanton hand ever disturb his remains!"†   (source)
  • The deer never leaped that fell by my hand wantonly.†   (source)
  • You have a reason for wantonly making such a revelation.†   (source)
  • As wanton women offer themselves, to be sure.†   (source)
  • Ay, it is here that man may see the proofs of his wantonness and folly!†   (source)
  • "And such I call barefaced and downright wantonness and waste," interrupted his sturdy disputant.†   (source)
  • He had stolen her—wantonly murdering for the sake of lonely, fruitless hours with her; he had loved her—and he had changed; he had gambled away her soul and life—a last and terrible proof of the evil power of gold; and in the end he had saved her—he had gone from her white, radiant, cool, with strange, pale eyes and his amiable, mocking smile, and all the ruthless force of his life had expended itself in one last magnificent stand.†   (source)
  • That is to say: Toward the accomplishment of an aim which in wantonness of malignity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgment sagacious and sound.†   (source)
  • The old gentleman judged from so wanton a gesture that she was new to his country, but he paid little heed.†   (source)
  • His colossal fortune, with the exception of the comparatively small portion wasted in the first wanton period of his inheritance, went to his brother, to the great satisfaction of the latter.†   (source)
  • But this seemed to her to be a horror—a wantonness, all the more detestable to her, because she so detested Florence.†   (source)
  • She was alone and still, gazing out to sea; and when she felt his presence and the worship of his eyes her eyes turned to him in quiet sufferance of his gaze, without shame or wantonness.†   (source)
  • The book was an old one—thirty years old, soiled, scribbled wantonly over with a strange name in every variety of enmity to the letterpress, and marked at random with dates twenty years earlier than his own day.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when he was down at his great house in Nottinghamshire, entertaining the fashionable young men of his own rank who were his chief companions, and astounding the county by the wanton luxury and gorgeous splendour of his mode of life, he would suddenly leave his guests and rush back to town to see that the door had not been tampered with, and that the picture was still there.†   (source)
  • But what about the other kind of hubris, when a man perishes in wanton experiments with the powers of unreason, with forces hostile to the human race?†   (source)
  • She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.†   (source)
  • And if she knew, then she had deliberately despoiled her friend, and in mere wantonness of power, since, even to Gerty's suddenly flaming jealousy, it seemed incredible that Lily should wish to be Selden's wife.†   (source)
  • And once there and in the presence of the body along with Titus, Burton Burleigh, Heit and Earl Newcomb, he was able to decide for himself, even while Titus, half demented, gazed upon the features of his child, first that she truly was Roberta Alden and next as to whether he considered her of the type who would wantonly yield herself to such a liaison as the registration at Grass Lake seemed to indicate.†   (source)
  • This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.†   (source)
  • It was a wanton smash-up.†   (source)
  • I remembered the case well, for it was one in which Holmes had taken an interest on account of the peculiar ferocity of the crime and the wanton brutality which had marked all the actions of the assassin.†   (source)
  • He had been disintegrated into a number of varied fellow-creatures—beings of many minds, beings infinite in difference; some happy, many serene, a few depressed, one here and there bright even to genius, some stupid, others wanton, others austere; some mutely Miltonic, some potentially Cromwellian—into men who had private views of each other, as he had of his friends; who could applaud or condemn each other, amuse or sadden themselves by the contemplation of each other's foibles or…†   (source)
  • Now this, to the present writer's mind at least, lifts the murder out of the realm of the absolutely wanton.†   (source)
  • He did not make bricks—why, there was a physical impossibility in the way—as I was well aware; and if he did secretarial work for the manager, it was because 'no sensible man rejects wantonly the confidence of his superiors.'†   (source)
  • The soot-coated packet of pictures which he had hidden in the flue of the fireplace and in the presence of whose shameless or bashful wantonness he lay for hours sinning in thought and deed; his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes; the foul long letters he had written in the joy of guilty confession and carried secretly for days and days only to throw them under cover of night among the grass in the corner of a field or beneath some…†   (source)
  • Society had three arms in its contest with the individual, laws, public opinion, and conscience: the first two could be met by guile, guile is the only weapon of the weak against the strong: common opinion put the matter well when it stated that sin consisted in being found out; but conscience was the traitor within the gates; it fought in each heart the battle of society, and caused the individual to throw himself, a wanton sacrifice, to the prosperity of his enemy.†   (source)
  • It was their duty to play various games to amuse the newly born God, and to simulate his sports with the wanton dairyniaids of Brindaban.†   (source)
  • So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Undead have hypnotize him.†   (source)
  • This brute had run a little way and then turned savagely at bay, and Montgomery—with a certain wantonness, I thought—had shot him.†   (source)
  • When she advanced to him with outstretched arms and a wanton smile he fell back and hid his face in his hands.†   (source)
  • But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life.†   (source)
  • It was a place where the churchyard lay nearer heaven than the church steeple, where beer was more plentiful than water, and where there were more wanton women than honest wives and maids.†   (source)
  • Many men have been praised as vividly imaginative on the strength of their profuseness in indifferent drawing or cheap narration:—reports of very poor talk going on in distant orbs; or portraits of Lucifer coming down on his bad errands as a large ugly man with bat's wings and spurts of phosphorescence; or exaggerations of wantonness that seem to reflect life in a diseased dream.†   (source)
  • I have seen a land right merry with the sun, where children sing, and rolling hills lie like passioned women wanton with harvest.†   (source)
  • "It is the mere wantonness of insult," said one of the oldest and most important of Prince John's followers, Waldemar Fitzurse, "and if your Grace attempt it, cannot but prove ruinous to your projects."†   (source)
  • To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.†   (source)
  • "I—I didn't—I know I ought never to have dreamt of sending that valentine—forgive me, sir—it was a wanton thing which no woman with any self-respect should have done.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced.†   (source)
  • The artist may of course, in wanton moods, dream of some Paradise (for art) where the direct appeal to the intelligence might be legalised; for to such extravagances as these his yearning mind can scarce hope ever completely to close itself.†   (source)
  • And all that, let me tell you, she has simply made up for herself, and not simply out of wantonness, for the sake of bragging; no, she believes it all herself, she amuses herself with her own fancies, upon my word she does!†   (source)
  • "When you take away from among us the fools and the rogues, and the lammigers, and the wanton hussies, and the slatterns, and such like, there's cust few left to ornament a song with in Casterbridge, or the country round."†   (source)
  • In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents, which nature has placed on their shoulders.†   (source)
  • I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.†   (source)
  • What! shall the Poet that which Nature gave, The highest right, supreme Humanity, Forfeit so wantonly, to swell your treasure?†   (source)
  • Hetty was delighted with this proof of tenderness in an animal that has but a very indifferent reputation for the gentler feelings, and as a cub would quit its mother to frisk and leap about in wantonness, she felt a strong desire again to catch it up in her arms, and play with it.†   (source)
  • And as soon as an important moment of life comes, like the children when they are cold and hungry, I turn to Him, and even less than the children when their mother scolds them for their childish mischief, do I feel that my childish efforts at wanton madness are reckoned against me.†   (source)
  • It is pitiable and sad, and the whole army is in despair that this most important place has been wantonly abandoned.†   (source)
  • There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe.†   (source)
  • It will readily be understood that by connecting the censorship of the laws with the private interests of members of the community, and by intimately uniting the prosecution of the law with the prosecution of an individual, legislation is protected from wanton assailants, and from the daily aggressions of party spirit.†   (source)
  • She had never had a keener sense of freedom, of the absolute boldness and wantonness of liberty, than when she turned away from the platform at the Euston Station on one of the last days of November, after the departure of the train that was to convey poor Lily, her husband and her children to their ship at Liverpool.†   (source)
  • In our time the harshest man writing to the most insensible person of his acquaintance would not venture wantonly to indulge in the cruel jocularity which I have quoted; and even if his own manners allowed him to do so, the manners of society at large would forbid it.†   (source)
  • It is not the fault of their authors that the long string of wanton's tragedies, from Antony and Cleopatra to Iris, are snares to poor girls, and are objected to on that account by many earnest men and women who consider Mrs Warren's Profession an excellent sermon.†   (source)
  • You, who sent me to a den where sordid cruelty, worthy of yourself, runs wanton, and youthful misery stalks precocious; where the lightness of childhood shrinks into the heaviness of age, and its every promise blights, and withers as it grows.†   (source)
  • He brought home with him a suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion—Eastern fashion, city fashion—that it filled everybody with anguish and was regarded as a peculiarly wanton affront.†   (source)
  • We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness."†   (source)
  • No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.†   (source)
  • I was very sorry for her—indeed, any one would have been, for she was really suffering; so I was willing to do anything that was reasonable, and had no desire to carry things to wanton extremities.†   (source)
  • My head still ached and bled with the blow and fall I had received: no one had reproved John for wantonly striking me; and because I had turned against him to avert farther irrational violence, I was loaded with general opprobrium.†   (source)
  • Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wantonness of their success they had respected, not only the persons of the trembling sisters, but his own.†   (source)
  • Still, we know our own callings, and they are what I consider natural callings, and are not parvarted by vanity and wantonness.†   (source)
  • To her father, it must be admitted, this seemed only another epigram; and as obstinacy, in unaccomplished minds, does not usually select such a mode of expression, he was the more surprised at this wanton play of a fixed idea.†   (source)
  • I may be only a priest's son, and dirt in the eyes of noblemen like you, but don't insult me so lightly and wantonly.†   (source)
  • Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.†   (source)
  • For it was set apart and sanctified to one awe-striking end; and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.†   (source)
  • If you want to know more particularly how Mary looked, ten to one you will see a face like hers in the crowded street to-morrow, if you are there on the watch: she will not be among those daughters of Zion who are haughty, and walk with stretched-out necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go: let all those pass, and fix your eyes on some small plump brownish person of firm but quiet carriage, who looks about her, but does not suppose that anybody is looking at her.†   (source)
  • Now mark thou what 'tis to forsake the ways of purity the which He loveth, and wanton with such as be worldly and an offense.†   (source)
  • In a distracted land where slavery had hardly fallen, to keep the strong from wanton abuse of the weak, and the weak from gloating insolently over the half-shorn strength of the strong, was a thankless, hopeless task.†   (source)
  • In England, where wealth has a monopoly of amusement as well as of power, complaints are made that whenever the poor happen to steal into the enclosures which are reserved for the pleasures of the rich, they commit acts of wanton mischief: can this be wondered at, since care has been taken that they should have nothing to lose?†   (source)
  • They felt it might be a being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery.†   (source)
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