illnesses

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Anyone can see that lusts and their enjoyments make one, that slynesses and scheming also do, and that the four are one series and as it were make a single bundle.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.

And satires at the Court were levelled,   And small lampoons, so full of slynesses, That soon, in short, they quite bedeviled   Their Majesties and Royal Highnesses.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

It should be known that man's internal will is in the lusts; his internal understanding in the slynesses; his external will in the enjoyments of the lusts; and his external understanding in the sly scheming.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.

Mess John, too, even fatter than tradition will have him—the sleek bald head and face, where a thousand slynesses could play together without jostling.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander