"Lie with" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and will now and then dare operam Augustino, read Austin, frequent sermons, and yet professed usurers, mere gripes, tota vitae ratio epicurea est; all their life is epicurism and atheism, come to church all day, and lie with a courtesan at night. Qui curios simulant et Bacchanalia vivunt, they have Esau's hands, and Jacob's voice: yea, and many of those holy friars, sanctified men, Cappam, saith Hierom, et cilicium induunt, sed intus latronem tegunt. They are wolves in sheep's clothing, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... you need to libel 'gainst the prelates, And shorten so your ears against the hearing Of the next wire-drawn grace. Nor of necessity Rail against plays, to please the alderman Whose daily custard you devour; nor lie With zealous rage till you are hoarse. Not one Of these so singular arts. Nor call yourselves By names of Tribulation, Persecution, Restraint, Long-patience, and such-like, affected By the whole family or wood of you, Only for glory, and to catch the ...
— The Alchemist • Ben Jonson
... say that Bolt found a clever diplomatist in Thomas, who was one of the best brought up servants in Picadilly. Thomas had no end of accomplishments, and as a certain vice in a servant is necessary to certain poor aristocracy and deeply involved diplomatists, so also could he lie with a facility truly incredible. If the history of Bolt's wealth, as related to certain tradesmen by Thomas, could be handed down to posterity, I fear my friend Cresus would find himself eclipsed. This it must be borne ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
... dark mountains they stumble, They are bruised on the rocks, and they lie With their white pleading faces turned upward To the clouds and ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... must eat: And i' faith we had victuals both plenty and good, Where we all laid about us as if we were wood: Go thy ways, Mistress Anderton, for a good woman, Thy guests shall by thee ne'er be turned to a common; And whoever of thy entertainment complains, Let him lie with a drab, and ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
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