strumpet

Example Sentences

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As a matron is unlike and of a different aspect from a strumpet, so will a true friend differ from the toad-eater.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

How like a prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind!

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

I must begin by stating that I do not accept implicitly Shakespeare's angry declarations that his mistress was a mere strumpet.

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank

For the third degree, they prouided Bridewell, where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised, and compelled to labour, to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William

From this incident we may learn to know how evil Fortune exerts her rage against a poor right-minded man, and how the strumpet Luck can help a miserable rascal.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington