The time of hymns to voluptuousness is past; gravity and sadness are now persistent moods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Literature 1916 - Presentation] Reference

He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference

Then in voluptuousness he leads his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference

There was voluptuousness in the very air, and it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This is no proof that he did not end in voluptuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

Italian voluptuousness, the salon furnished in imitation of Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He carefully accumulated all the materials of voluptuousness and magnificence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

She is embracing her voluptuousness just as much she embraced the skinny Jessica.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference

Another seat of voluptuousness in the woman is located in the cervix of the uterus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

When I am on top of you they rub against me and I'm reminded of your voluptuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tutoring Lady Jane]

The monarchs of Assyria spent their time mainly in debasing crime and voluptuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference

He calls her 'the good child in whose soul, secretly, a voice of voluptuousness resounds.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference

But one whereby pleasure and voluptuousness may be resisted and opposed, I see: continence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

The Countess, who was possessed of the penetration of voluptuousness, was not mistaken there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

London what Daphne was to Antioch, whose voluptuousness and luxury are perpetuated in history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828] Reference

It was with the blossoming of her figure that she discovered Archie detested voluptuousness in women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tutoring Lady Jane]

She had no archness or coquetry like some, no voluptuousness like others, no arts to win applause like others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

And the reason of His uncompromising hostility to voluptuousness can be found in the intrinsic malice of the evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference

Vice may be excess in any direction, but asceticism has generally been accepted as a nobler vice than voluptuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference

He revealed to her delicate joys and a delightful sadness; he awakened in her a voluptuousness which had been always dormant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But, however his illness prevailed, he relinquished nothing of his vile voluptuousness; forcing patience, and feigning health.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference

He will account all things good that flatter his conceit, and all things evil that disturb the voluptuousness of his attachment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference

There she lay, the very personification of voluptuousness -- large in stature, full in form, and exquisitely beautiful in feature!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference

Her charms were of coloring and voluptuousness rather than in any claim to true beauty, but Caesar instantly appreciated her charms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

There is a species of voluptuousness in this appetite for suffering, and the sufferer becomes, as it were, enamored of his own agony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

She was so tired that she sat down into the chair with an innocent voluptuousness which would have disorganized any ordinary man's day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

The Turks, and indeed the Orientals in general, have few images of voluptuousness without the richest flowers contributing towards them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828] Reference

By then, she had cultivated a quality in herself she called "intelluptuous" — a combination of intelligence and voluptuousness that he clearly found irresistible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purpose-Driven Wife] Reference

Ormond's easy habits satisfied me that he was not a man of business originally, or had become sadly negligent under the debasing influence of wealth and voluptuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

It was at the same time the greatest wickedness and the perpetual danger of his life, but it was also the excitement, the pride, and the magnificent voluptuousness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

“Hockenberry,” says the Goddess of Love, reclining on her cushioned couch, the gravity — light as it is — giving emphasis to all her silky, milky-weighted voluptuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilium]