incontinent

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Since an overpopulation of wolves above the carrying capacity of the country to maintain would mean a rapid decline in the numbers of prey animals — with consequent starvation for the wolves themselves — they are forced to practice what amounts to birth control through continence.†  (source) Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf, 1963

I held my tongue and forbore from saying that the cure for his malady was a little continence, for I wanted his help that day, and I would be hard pressed to get it if I angered him.†  (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001

It's a new version of Dahl1 and just as boguslinguistic graphomania, verbal incontinence.†  (source) Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

There would be a brown patch when I stood up, as if I'd been incontinent.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

In the first place, humans who have not the gift of continence can be deterred from seeking marriage as a solution because they do not find themselves "in love", and, thanks to us, the idea of marrying with any other motive seems to them low and cynical.†  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942

You have sense enough: don't give way to drunkenness and incontinence of speech; don't give way to sensual lust; and, above all, to the love of money.†  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.†  (source) The Bible, New Testament, 1611

I would the duke we talk of were returned again: this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves because they are lecherous.†  (source) William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604

"I'm going to be an incontinent idiot," my grandmother said; she looked directly at Owen Meany.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence.†  (source) Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940

"I can't think what that strange person's come about," the butler added, from mere incontinence of remark, as he preceded Adam to the door, "he's gone i' the dining-room.†  (source) George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859

You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to incontinency; That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly That they may seem the taints of liberty; The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind; A savageness in unreclaimed blood, Of general assault.†  (source) William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1601

In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her; And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul, Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak, And sits as one new risen from a dream.†  (source) William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, 1591