"Lustful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and terrible eyes Came the rank and the file, with catamount cries, Gibbering, yipping, with hollow-skull clacks, Riding white bronchos with skeleton backs, Scalp-hunters, beaded and spangled and bad, Naked and lustful and foaming and mad, Flashing primeval demoniac scorn, Blood-thirst and pomp amid darkness reborn, Power and glory that sleep in the grass While the winds and the snows and the great rains pass. They crossed the gray ...
— Chinese Nightingale • Vachel Lindsay
... and it seemed miraculous that he could turn the yeasty workings of his mind into cool, clear statements of hitherto unstated truth that would in no way betray to those that read them that their maker was lustful and hot-tempered and, about some things, melancholic. He had felt Science to be so gloriously above life; to make the smallest discovery was like hearing the authentic voice of God who is no man ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... friends who sacked the city; His slaves who raped the nuns; His ghouls devoid of pity— The bloody, lustful Huns, The 'scrap of paper' liars, The burners of Louvain Shall feed hell's hottest fires ...
— War Rhymes • Abner Cosens
... must be invented before anybody can be bored with it. And I do not believe, although I find it stated in a ten-volume Science-History of the Universe, that 'language is an internal necessity, begotten of a lustful longing to express, through the plastic vocal energy, man's secret sense of his ability to interpret Nature.' An internal necessity, yes—except in the case of the Bore Negative, who prefers to listen; but ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren
... and wish he'd got the same orderly sort of mind; but she had the wit to see that it takes all sorts to make a world, and while William liked money a lot better than earning it, Jonas liked the earning and didn't set no lustful store ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts
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