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unrestrained by convention or morality- She was a sensible woman and so she could not help looking upon me as a dissolute profligate incapable of real love.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- Afterwards he went to America, and returned I fear to an idle dissolute life.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- Or perhaps it was a tent in which a dissolute Austrian noble lay puffing a hookah or molesting a cousin.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Here's the interesting part: Rank says he inherited the disease from his father's dissolute living.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- To see the dissolute wench hang on the blear-eyed gibbet, windows are eyes.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- All these great artists burn the candle at both ends; they require a dissolute life, that suits the imagination to some extent.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- His bronze face lacked the heat, the dissolute shades common to Jett and the other men.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- He was notoriously dissolute with women.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- She still surrounded herself with the cynical aura of a dissolute past.James Patterson -- 1st to Die
- His eyes, dark brown and quick-shifting, were dissolute.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The stranger was meanly dressed, with every appearance about his person and countenance, of squalid poverty and of the most dissolute habits.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- Alexander Vronsky, in spite of the dissolute life, and in especial the drunken habits, for which he was notorious, was quite one of the court circle.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- MEPHISTOPHELES (dancing with the old one) A dissolute dream once came to me: Therein I saw a cloven tree, Which had a——; Yet,——as 'twas, I fancied it.Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
- All these sounds, intimating the disorderly state of the town, crowded with military nobles and their dissolute attendants, gave Gurth some uneasiness.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- But if you say 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- She had bidden good-by to a disgraced, disinherited, dissolute boy.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- They're all named for the heroine, who succeeded in bringing a dissolute, sinning roue and atheist of a lover (St.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
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