...Short for 'to hold'—but it is a licentious construction, so also, in next line, 'themselves' for 'they themselves...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
... To put an end to this licentious behaviour, which has cost him so many gaping wounds, we decided to remove the heap of soil which serves him as a ladder of escape...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...' The girls having been withdrawn, licentious youths linkedarms, and bore down the broad pavé, quizzing this person, laughing atthat, and staring the pin-stickers and straw-chippers out of countenance...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...They appealed therefore to gentle spirits, and above all towomen, whom the bloody and licentious rites of other Orientalgoddesses only shocked and repelled...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The number of cases in which beautiful and accomplished young women have been divorced by brutal and licentious husbands is appalling...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...He was depraved and dissolute, and, to satisfy his licentious desires, he is said to have made free with the treasury...
George S. Phillips 「The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral」
...It wasflippant, careless, licentious...
John C. Van Dyke 「A Text-Book of the History of Painting」
..."This Plate exhibits our licentious prodigal engaged in one of his midnight festivities:forgetful of the past, and negligent of the future, he riots in the present...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
... undertemptation from fond experiments and licentious desires; and amidst thecruel and clamorous jealousies of the nations...
John Ruskin 「Lectures on Art」
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