Women had no education, and were disgracefully profligate; even the wife of Marcus Aurelius (the daughter of Antoninus Pius) was one of the most abandoned women of the age, notwithstanding all the influence of their teachings and example.

Nature seems extravagantly profligate in her giving and pitiless in her taking away.

The doctrines he had heard that evening ought to have been reserved for times the most flagrantly profligate and abandoned.

If a family, or a class, or a whole nation becomes incorrigibly profligate, foolish, base, in three or four generations they will either die out or vanish.

At Aylesbury the Radical leader had been a man of notoriously profligate life, and when Mr. Disraeli came to seek re-election as Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer this tribune of the people produced at the hustings the Radical manifesto which Mr. Disraeli had issued twenty years before.

Indeed, so open were Sir Julian's glances that the maid herself became confused and said, with some embarrassment, "My imagination is ofttime profligate, and I indulgein fancyin exchange of word and thought with those great and exalted personages whose noble compeers I have the good fortune to consort with daily.

And Otto von Meran, the princely profligate, is one of Grillparzer's boldest creationsnot bad by nature, but utterly irresponsible; crafty, resourceful, proud as a peacock and, like a monkey in the forest, wishing always to be noticed.