But by the 1920s, women of ill-fame no longer formed a distinct caste readily distinguished from other women by dress, manners, and place of residence. . . ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
It was a crime to “entice” any “female of previous chaste character … to a house of ill-fame,” for the “purpose of prostitution” sec. 1993; dealing in obscene literature was also proscribed. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)
“By a Captain, in a house of ill-fame,” said the priest, interrupting the penitent. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If he felt he had been wrongfully charged, "or if the Person charging him be a Woman of ill-fame, or a common Whore," he had recourse to appeal in the next quarter sessions. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And then I think of the grotesque information he gave me as to the present address of his heiress, I foresee that it will be my duty to search all the houses of ill-fame in Paris to pour out an immense fortune on some worthless jade. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then there was Mrs. Somer, who kept a house of ill-fame and was bringing up her daughters to the same profession. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But in spite of its ill-fame, a certain number of young men every year announce their intention of visiting it and, as we have said, are never seen again. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He had the habit of going into certain haunts of ill-fame, where as he did not wish to be seen entering or coming out, he effaced himself so as to expose the least possible surface to the malevolent gaze of hypothetical passers-by, and that gust-like motion had remained and perhaps signified the apparent intrepidity of one who wants to show he is unafraid and does not take time to think. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Oh, you know ... down below ... from a house of ill-fame. ❋ Unknown (2003)
No one ever spoke to her so but the justices of the peace who tried her for trying to get out of a house of ill-fame. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The Persians, says Burckhardt, were suspected of this sacrilege, and now their ill-fame has spread far; at ❋ Unknown (2003)
And throughout my journey, even in Arabia, though I drew my knife every time an offensive hint was thrown out, the ill-fame clung to me like the shirt of Nessus. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Prostitution is to be combated, not in the houses of ill-fame, but in the family. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Odette had been the mistress of countless men (several of whom it named, among them Forcheville, M. de Bréauté and the painter) and women, and that she frequented houses of ill-fame. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. ❋ Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 (2001)
I know, from my son himself, that the Abbe, having one day met him in the street, just as he was about to enter a house of ill-fame, did nothing but laugh at him, instead of taking him by the arm and leading him home again. ❋ D'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, Duchesse (2001)
Could the people respect the clergy when they learned that one priest stole money from under the pillow of a dying man at the moment he was administering the sacrament, that another was publicly dragged out of a house of ill-fame, that a third christened a dog, that a fourth while officiating at the Easter service was dragged by the hair from the altar by the deacon? ❋ Milton Goldsmith (N/A)
