Quit hounding me with your illicit fascinations."

Two new witnesses were called to testify to the suggestion of the prosecution that illicit relations had existed between Sir Horace Fewbanks and Mrs. Holymead.

It has been asserted, indeed, that the price of a license is now so small, that none who are inclined to deal in spirits will neglect to secure themselves from punishment and vexation by procuring it; and that no man will subject himself to the malice of a profligate, by carrying on an illicit trade, which the annual expense of twenty shillings will make legal.

And on the refusal of our consul to sanction this illicit conveyance of slaves by British vessels, the Emperor applied to the French consul, who condescended to hoist the tri-coloured flag for the transport of slave-eunuchs!

Far better to shut his eyes to this illicit traffic and assist these strange soldiers of fortune to get their ivory to the coast, and then enjoy the due reward of this complaisant attitude.

Fortunately at this time his mother Monica, to whom he had lied and from whom he had run away, joined him; also his son Adeodatus,the son of the woman with whom he had lived in illicit intercourse for fifteen years.

It is by no means uncommon for them to inflict chastisement on negresses with whom they are in habitual illicit intercourse, and I was credibly informed that this cruelty was often resorted to, to disabuse the mind of a deceived and injured wife who suspects unfair treatment.

Hilda soon comprehended that in twenty-four hours Mr. Enville, from being an unscrupulous speculator who had used his official position to make illicit profits out of the sale of land to the town for town improvements, had become the very mirror of honesty and high fidelity to the noblest traditions of local government.

Better, perhaps, had they died right out by sword or poison than suffer, as they did, the extremity of pathosthe shame of illicit love!

Compromise belongs to the world of practice; it is only admitted by an illicit process into the world of thought.

Attempts have been made to pervert this clause into an objection against the Constitution, by representing it on one side, as a criminal toleration of an illicit practice; and on another, as calculated to prevent voluntary and beneficial emigrations from Europe to America.

Attempts have been made to pervert this clause into an objection against the Constitution, by representing it on one side, as a criminal toleration of an illicit practice; and on another, as calculated to prevent voluntary and beneficial emigrations from Europe to America.

And then as if in a mirror he saw an expression of embarrassment on their faces, and was reminded that their meeting must have been illicit, too.

This was of the nature of an investigation into the actual state of the West India Colonies with respect to the illicit commerce in slaves.

"I suppose you know the winner of every race," he remarked, quizzically watching Joe Archer, who was blushing and as uneasy as a schoolgirl when nabbed in the enjoyment of an illicit love-letter.

The men who distil liquors are, for the most part, unscrupulous; and the higher the tax, the more inducement to illicit distillation.

A sight which was quite exhilarating, and reminded me so strongly of the fine odour which exhales from the products of illicit distillation, that guagers and potteen, like the phantoms of hallucination, were presenting themselves continually to my imagination for the remainder of that day.

" The illicit, impure aspect of Oriental love is hinted at in many of the poems collected by Hâla.

Illicit pleasure's eldest-born!

So I entered the establishment with an eye of as keen a speculation as an exciseman's searching a building for illicit distillery, and I came out of it a more charitable and contented man.

A few idlers caught in an illicit act and under threat of arrest.

he knew some of the faces well enough by sightfor he had originally served in the train-bands of London, and had oft seen my Lord Walterton, for instance, conspicuous at every entertainmentnow pronounced illicit by His Highness, and Sir Anthony Bridport, a constant frequenter at Exeter House, and young Lord Naythmire the son of the Judge.

To-morrow I will answer for my offense of playing cards, which apparently, is an illicit pastime.

It appears that my Lord Protector's vigilance patrol had kept a very sharp eye on these two people, who had more than once had to answer for illicit acts before the Courts.

The only industry practised by the inhabitants is illicit trade with the Danish islands of Saint Thomas and Saint Cross.