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  • They brought no lasting pleasure, particularly since he knew that if he told his wife about them she would be appalled by his mistreatment of the other woman but not by his infidelity to her.†   (source)
  • As soon as she could escape from public view, she would go in secret to the Park of the Evangels, and there she would visit with new friends and some old ones from school or the painting classes: an innocent substitute for infidelity.†   (source)
  • Just as Salander had guessed, it was his continual infidelity that drove his wife to leave.†   (source)
  • Of Course, When I Was Little I didn't understand the terminology of words like infidelity.†   (source)
  • The invincible chatter of people, concerning people, who had no reality for him, the talk about money, of children's illnesses, of doctor's bills, of pregnancies, of unlikely and unlovely infidelities occurring between ciphers and neuters in a vacuum, the ditchwater-dull, infantile dirty stories, and the insane talk about politics.†   (source)
  • Of course, Tia Fidelina, our uncle's wife, who is sweet and dedicated to La Virgen, "knows nothing" about Tio Orlando's infidelities.†   (source)
  • Megamoney, lurid sex, drugs, betrayal, infidelity, assassination, and an illegitimate child.†   (source)
  • And in notable contrast to much of fashionable society and the Court, where mistresses and infidelities were not only an accepted part of life, but often flaunted, the King remained steadfastly faithful to his very plain Queen, the German princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, with whom by now he had produced ten children.†   (source)
  • He was inconsistent: first he disavowed his infidelities, then he tried to justify them.†   (source)
  • The villagers were speeding up the circling of events because she was too shortsighted to see that her infidelity had already harmed the village, that waves of consequences would return unpredictably, sometimes in disguise, as now, to hurt her.†   (source)
  • But things like jealousy, rage, and infidelity—they don't disappear.†   (source)
  • Not a word about suspected infidelities is printed or broadcast.†   (source)
  • Infidelity is a dangerous business.†   (source)
  • He will come to regret his infidelity, ultimately and forever.†   (source)
  • Henry entertaining thoughts of infidelity?†   (source)
  • I knew there had been lovers since Sophie, one of them Mrs. Ochoa-Perez, the embassy wife, whose husband found out about her infidelity and had her quickly dispatched back to Montevideo.†   (source)
  • Love affairs rainbowed over marriages and lasted forever—so it often seemed that marriage was the greater infidelity.†   (source)
  • I pass my life in crummy, totally pointless infidelities ....(Laughs ruefully) would-be infidelities.†   (source)
  • They slumber just beneath the surface, like the wounds of infidelities, forgotten anniversaries, and unmet emotional needs.†   (source)
  • UP UNTIL the time of Harriet's discovery of John Tubman's infidelity, she had been guiding escaping slaves to the North and freedom largely because she wanted to rescue members of her own family.†   (source)
  • If one object behind her discovery of what she was to label the Tristero System or often only The Tristero (as if it might be something's secret title) were to bring to an end her encapsulation in her tower, then that night's infidelity with Metzger would logically be the starting point for it; logically.†   (source)
  • The candidate was accused of marital infidelity.
  • I forgive his infidelity which I have reason to believe he also regrets...   (source)
  • No. She's actually referring to my ...infidelity with Andie.†   (source)
  • She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities.†   (source)
  • I looked like a man who loved his wife, who was shamed by his infidelities and ready to do right.†   (source)
  • It was not a matter of infidelity, but of desire.†   (source)
  • How aware Abigail may have been of the husband's frequent infidelities is not known.†   (source)
  • Despite John Wilkes Booth's many infidelities, Lucy Hale is the love of his life.†   (source)
  • He's worked in Hollywood long enough to know that infidelity is as common as sunrise.†   (source)
  • In Blomkvist's case the consequence of his infidelity was a divorce.†   (source)
  • Clearly, thought Gabriel, watching him, Navot was paying the price for a dietary infidelity.†   (source)
  • But alcohol on his breath was a sure sign to Tereza of infidelity.†   (source)
  • The news transformed into rebellion Tereza's despair at Tomas's infidelities.†   (source)
  • Her daughter's guilt was infinite and included the husband's infidelities.†   (source)
  • All the more because she felt so weak, so debilitated by Tomas's infidelities.†   (source)
  • The same things meant her jealousy and his infidelities.†   (source)
  • Idris says, irked that Timur has burdened him again with knowledge of his misconduct, his infidelity, his grotesque frat-boy antics.†   (source)
  • They mostly seemed like excuses dreamed up to explain things like infant mortality rates—and infidelity.†   (source)
  • But he did not know how a woman with as much pride, dignity, and strength of character as his wife would react in the face of proven infidelity.†   (source)
  • I want to know what sort of creep my daughter is going out with...I think my wife is being unfaithful...The guy is OK but he's mixed up with bad company...I'm being blackmailed...Armansky often gave them a straightforward no. If the daughter was an adult, she had the right to go out with any creep she wanted to, and he thought infidelity was something that husbands and wives ought to work out on their own.†   (source)
  • But she had the inclinations of an alleycat, which were more indomitable than the strength of her tenderness, and this meant that both of them were condemned to infidelity.†   (source)
  • She was sure that her honor was the subject of gossip even before her husband had finished his penance, and the feeling of humiliation that this produced in her was much less tolerable than the shame and anger and injustice caused by his infidelity.†   (source)
  • His schedule of house calls, which seemed best suited to infidelity, was also the easiest to keep an eye on, because Dr. Juvenal Urbino kept a detailed record of each of his patients, including the payment of his fees, from the first time he visited them until he ushered them out of this world with a final sign of the cross and some words for the salvation of their souls.†   (source)
  • Now, exclusively, Nick Dunne breaks his silence, not only on his wife's disappearance but on his infidelity and all those rumors.†   (source)
  • For many years he thought with terror about the signed letters, he kept track of the prison term of the murderer, who knew him because of his dealings with the boat company, but it was not so much fear of a knife at his throat or a public scandal as the misfortune of Fermina Daza's learning about his infidelity.†   (source)
  • Since discovering my situation—which is what we'd taken to calling my infidelity—she'd gotten a bit removed, her eyes distant, her face a constant mull.†   (source)
  • The first provoked her to such irrational anger at her husband's infidelity and her friend's disloyalty that she renounced the custom of visiting the family mausoleum one Sunday each month, for it infuriated her that he, inside his coffin, could not hear the insults she wanted to shout at him: she had a quarrel with a dead man.†   (source)
  • He hadn't known about the demise of his previous relationship, however, and Sarah's infidelity had intrigued him.†   (source)
  • Through the quiet agony of the years of his marriage, there had been one thought which he would not permit himself to consider; the thought of infidelity.†   (source)
  • A few weeks earlier I had revealed to Luzan the single infidelity during my marriage, a brief episode very early in my career with a Chinese woman whose importer husband I was attempting to encounter and track.†   (source)
  • He was accused of favoring states' rights over the Union, charged with infidelity to the Constitution, called a spendthrift and libertine.†   (source)
  • And while the president would be a fool to damage their marriage (and his career) by a brazen act of public infidelity, there are moments when this normally pragmatic man is helplessly self-destructive.†   (source)
  • He remembered her hammering derision of his work, his mills, his Metal, his success, he remembered her desire to see him drunk, just once, her attempts to push him into infidelity, her pleasure at the thought that he had fallen to the level of some sordid romance, her terror on discovering that that romance had been an attainment, not a degradation.†   (source)
  • King's infidelities, alleged Communist sympathies, and relentless pursuit of civil rights make their public association an enormous political risk.†   (source)
  • There can be no mistake: King must sever his ties with Communists and be cautious about his infidelities.†   (source)
  • If he had not succeeded in wounding her with his infidelity, he was certain the revelation of her rival would do the trick.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't stay long; long enough for a cup of coffee; long enough to feel what it was like to reach the very border of infidelity.†   (source)
  • It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm.†   (source)
  • I know your infidelities are no great tragedy ...She looked at him with love in her eyes, but she feared the night ahead, feared her dreams.†   (source)
  • Then it occurred to her that there might be a way to avoid the condemnation she saw in Tomas's infidelities: all he had to do was take her along, take her with him when he went to see his mistresses!†   (source)
  • She was in a position to understand her now; they were in the same situation: her mother loved her stepfather just as Tereza loved Tomas, and her stepfather tortured her mother with his infidelities just as Tomas galled her with his.†   (source)
  • Even in his infidelities he behaved as one could count on his behaving and never gave rise to scandal.†   (source)
  • The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship.†   (source)
  • She loved him and he loved her, and this unwanted child now seemed to her a proof of infidelity to that love.†   (source)
  • And it was doubly dreadful that his death should occur simultaneously with the discovery of his infidelity.†   (source)
  • Unchastity and infidelity were as confused to him as to the Middle Ages, his only moral teacher.†   (source)
  • He hated himself for his infidelity to his Virgin, to his people.†   (source)
  • She had not the slightest inkling of any infidelities.†   (source)
  • I did not reckon upon hunger and infidelity!" and a bitter laugh escaped the count.†   (source)
  • This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell to an unhappy soul.†   (source)
  • A glance on the outer world was infidelity.†   (source)
  • For whatever infidelities he might ever commit he was adequately punished before they had reached the Grand Hotel.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Epanchin, long accustomed to her husband's infidelities, had heard of the pearls, and the rumour excited her liveliest curiosity and interest.†   (source)
  • What he was going to do would be extremely awkward, and she would detest him for ever after, whereas now, for the moment, for so long as he refrained from knocking, perhaps even in the act of infidelity, she loved him still.†   (source)
  • And that was quite in the early days of her discovery of his infidelities—if you like to call them infidelities.†   (source)
  • Even atheists reproach me with infidelity and anarchists with nihilism because I cannot endure their moral tirades.†   (source)
  • She felt somewhat like a woman who in a moment of passion is betrayed into an act of infidelity, and realizes the significance of the act without being wholly awakened from its glamour.†   (source)
  • The life of Swann's love, the fidelity of his jealousy, were formed out of death, of infidelity, of innumerable desires, innumerable doubts, all of which had Odette for their object.†   (source)
  • Whatever they thought about her sex morals, her infidelity to United Brethrenism, and her general dementia, they had not suspected that she could commit such an obscenity as smoking.†   (source)
  • She went, numbed and terrified, to the Mother Superior of her childhood's convent with the tale of Edward's infidelities with the Spanish dancer, and all that the old nun, who appeared to her to be infinitely wise, mystic and reverend, had done had been to shake her head sadly and to say: "Men are like that.†   (source)
  • And such moments as these, in which she forgot Swann's very existence, were of more value to Odette, did more to attach him to her, than all her infidelities.†   (source)
  • But you need him so as to contemplate continually your heroic fidelity and to reproach him for infidelity.†   (source)
  • You have always been a divinity for him, and you are that still, and this has not been an infidelity of the heart...†   (source)
  • The old man died, as I have told you; had he lived, Mercedes, perchance, had not become the wife of another, for he would have been there to reproach her infidelity.†   (source)
  • "For the dissemination of pure truth and to secure the triumph of virtue," he read, "we must cleanse men from prejudice, diffuse principles in harmony with the spirit of the times, undertake the education of the young, unite ourselves in indissoluble bonds with the wisest men, boldly yet prudently overcome superstitions, infidelity, and folly, and form of those devoted to us a body linked together by unity of purpose and possessed of authority and power.†   (source)
  • A dozen times (it was at those moments when glimpses of the light, sylphlike form of Inez flitted like some fairy being past the scene of their conferences) the good father fancied he was on the eve of a glorious triumph over infidelity; but all his hopes were frustrated by some unlooked-for opposition, on the part of the subject of his pious labours.†   (source)
  • As to the minor priests and acolytes of that temple, the result of all this was that they stood divided into two classes, and, down to the junior messenger, either believed in the Circumlocution Office as a heaven-born institution that had an absolute right to do whatever it liked; or took refuge in total infidelity, and considered it a flagrant nuisance.†   (source)
  • "Well, then, let us say no more about it," said d'Artagnan; "and let us burn this letter, which, no doubt, announces to you some fresh infidelity of your GRISETTE or your chambermaid."†   (source)
  • What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.†   (source)
  • At the present time, more than in any preceding one, Roman Catholics are seen to lapse into infidelity, and Protestants to be converted to Roman Catholicism.†   (source)
  • He invented an infidelity on the part of the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and that the man was deceiving her.†   (source)
  • Madame Mantalini, quite unmoved by some most pathetic lamentations on the part of her husband, that the apothecary had not mixed the prussic acid strong enough, and that he must take another bottle or two to finish the work he had in hand, entered into a catalogue of that amiable gentleman's gallantries, deceptions, extravagances, and infidelities (especially the last), winding up with a protest against being supposed to entertain the smallest remnant of regard for him; and adducing, in proof of the altered state of her affections, the circumstance of his having poisoned himself in private no less than six times within the last fortnight, and her not having once interfered by word or dee†   (source)
  • If to herself the idea was startling, if it presented itself at first as a kind of infidelity, a capacity for pollution, what infinite effect might it not be expected to have had upon HIM?†   (source)
  • Altogether in his culture and want of culture,—in his crude, wild, and misty philosophy, and the practical experience that counteracted some of its tendencies; in his magnanimous zeal for man's welfare, and his recklessness of whatever the ages had established in man's behalf; in his faith, and in his infidelity; in what he had, and in what he lacked,—the artist might fitly enough stand forth as the representative of many compeers in his native land.†   (source)
  • I am afraid in my heart that you may have been visited by the new spirit of infidelity that is abroad to-day; If it is so, I pray for you.†   (source)
  • Unbelievers are to be met with in America, but, to say the truth, there is no public organ of infidelity.†   (source)
  • —Bethink thee, if thou dost relapse into thine infidelity, though thou are not so tender as a suckling pig—I would I had one to break my fast upon—thou art not too tough to be roasted!†   (source)
  • The duke has had many affairs of gallantry; and if he has fostered his amours by promises of eternal constancy, he must likewise have sown the seeds of hatred by his eternal infidelities.†   (source)
  • It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.†   (source)
  • He was not originally a cruel or even a severe man; but with passions by nature cold, and with a high, though mistaken, sense of duty, his heart had been gradually hardened by the ascetic life which he pursued, the supreme power which he enjoyed, and the supposed necessity of subduing infidelity and eradicating heresy, which he conceived peculiarly incumbent on him.†   (source)
  • The position of Alexey Alexandrovitch, owing to this, and partly owing to the contempt lavished on him for his wife's infidelity, became very precarious.†   (source)
  • The jealous man can forgive extraordinarily quickly (though, of course, after a violent scene), and he is able to forgive infidelity almost conclusively proved, the very kisses and embraces he has seen, if only he can somehow be convinced that it has all been "for the last time," and that his rival will vanish from that day forward, will depart to the ends of the earth, or that he himself will carry her away somewhere, where that dreaded rival will not get near her.†   (source)
  • Oh, monsieur, procurator's wife or duchess, if she will but loosen her pursestrings, it will be all the same; but she positively answered that she was tired of the exigencies and infidelities of Monsieur Porthos, and that she would not send him a denier.†   (source)
  • none of those interesting adventures fell in his way; the lovely Genoese, Florentines, and Neapolitans were all faithful, if not to their husbands, at least to their lovers, and thought not of changing even for the splendid appearance of Albert de Morcerf; and all he gained was the painful conviction that the ladies of Italy have this advantage over those of France, that they are faithful even in their infidelity.†   (source)
  • Well, what sort of bringing-up can you give your babes if you do not overcome the temptation of the devil, enticing you to infidelity?" he said, with gentle reproachfulness.†   (source)
  • The inequality in marriage, in his opinion, lay in the fact that the infidelity of the wife and the infidelity of the husband are punished unequally, both by the law and by public opinion.†   (source)
  • Kitty knew that the words she had uttered in anger about her husband's infidelity and her humiliating position had cut her poor sister to the heart, but that she had forgiven her.†   (source)
  • You must understand that I was so far from suspecting infidelity, I regarded it as impossible, and then— try to imagine it—with such ideas, to find out suddenly all the horror, all the loathsomeness....You must try and understand me.†   (source)
  • There had been nothing definite, but Stepan Arkadyevitch was hardly ever at home; money, too, was hardly ever forthcoming, and Dolly was continually tortured by suspicions of infidelity, which she tried to dismiss, dreading the agonies of jealousy she had been through already.†   (source)
  • "Though indeed I fail to comprehend how, with the independence you show," he went on, getting hot, "—announcing your infidelity to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it, apparently—you can see anything reprehensible in performing a wife's duties in relation to your husband."†   (source)
  • The memory of how he had received her confession of infidelity on their way home from the races (especially that he had insisted only on the observance of external decorum, and had not sent a challenge) tortured him like a remorse.†   (source)
  • The first onslaught of jealousy, once lived through, could never come back again, and even the discovery of infidelities could never now affect her as it had the first time.†   (source)
  • It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.†   (source)
  • peace, large, rich,
    thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts,
    commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health,
    immortality, government,
    In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as
    good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,
    The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
    He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)
    He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun failing round
    helpless thing,
    As he sees the farthest he has the most faith,
    His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things,
    In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent,
    He see†   (source)
  • (Democracy, the destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere,
    And death and infidelity at every step.)†   (source)
  • parturitions,
    How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure
    fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates
    evil as well as good,
    The vehement struggle so fierce for unity in one's-self,
    How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths,
    obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
    How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or
    see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
    (But I see the athletes, and I see the results of the war glorious
    and inevitable, and they again leading to other results.)†   (source)
  • [1] Adultery, in the sense of infidelity to God†   (source)
  • So that there could not yet bee any controversie concerning the authority to Interpret Scripture; seeing no man was obliged during his infidelity, to follow any mans Interpretation of any Scripture, except his Soveraigns Interpretation of the Laws of his countrey.†   (source)
  • And, Molly, do you be faithful to your friend, and I will not only forgive your infidelity to me, but will do you all the service I can.†   (source)
  • The INFINITE DIVISIBILITY of matter, or, in other words, the INFINITE divisibility of a FINITE thing, extending even to the minutest atom, is a point agreed among geometricians, though not less incomprehensible to common-sense than any of those mysteries in religion, against which the batteries of infidelity have been so industriously leveled.†   (source)
  • He spoke much of Cunegonde, and Candide told him that he should ask forgiveness of that beautiful one for his infidelity when he should see her in Venice.†   (source)
  • The infidelity of Molly, which Jones had now discovered, would, perhaps, have vindicated a much greater degree of resentment than he expressed on the occasion; and if he had abandoned her directly from that moment, very few, I believe, would have blamed him.†   (source)
  • (John 3.36, 3.18) Nor can it be conceived, that the benefit of Faith, "is Remission of sins" unlesse we conceive withall, that the dammage of Infidelity, is "the Retention of the same sins.†   (source)
  • If the writer strictly observes the rules above-mentioned, he hath discharged his part; and is then intitled to some faith from his reader, who is indeed guilty of critical infidelity if he disbelieves him.†   (source)
  • The third Argument is this; "It is not lawfull for Christians to tolerate an Infidel, or Haereticall King, in case he endeavour to draw them to his Haeresie, or Infidelity.†   (source)
  • The subject of this was his infidelity to her young lady; on which she enlarged with great bitterness; but Jones at last found means to reconcile her, and not only so, but to obtain a promise of most inviolable secrecy, and that she would the next morning endeavour to find out Sophia, and bring him a further account of the proceedings of the squire.†   (source)
  • I told her the very reason of sending the letter ought to recommend you to her the more, as it was all upon her account, and a plain proof that you was resolved to quit all your profligacy for the future; that you had never been guilty of a single instance of infidelity to her since your seeing her in town: I am afraid I went too far there; but Heaven forgive me!†   (source)
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