The evils of concubinage were shameless and open throughout the empire, which led to a low estimate of female virtue and degraded the sex.

There was the most shameless peculation in the kitchen, and money given in charity was appropriated by the servants, who all combined to cheat her.

There were thousands of shameless Harpies, of pallid Gorgons, of barking Scyllas, of Chimeras that vomited ashes, and of monsters never before heard or thought of, with perverse aspects all mixed up in one.

And on the other hand contrary actions strengthen contrary characters: shamelessness strengthens the shameless man, faithlessness the faithless man, abusive words the abusive man, anger the man of an angry temper, and unequal receiving and giving make the avaricious man more avaricious.

But whether we shall have the will modest and faithful or shameless and faithless, we care not the least, except only in the school so far as a few words are concerned.

But now when you have said, Tomorrow I will begin to attend, you must be told that you are saying this, Today I will be shameless, disregardful of time and place, mean; it will be in the power of others to give me pain; today I will be passionate and envious.

But if when you wish to be useful to the state, you shall lose these qualities, what profit could you be to it, if you were made shameless and faithless?

My gold has opened a way for me and wheresoever I have beheld greed in the most execrable forms, sometimes hypocritical, sometimes shameless, sometimes cruel, fatten on the dead organism, like a vulture on a corpse, I have asked myselfwhy was there not, festering in its vitals, the corruption, the ptomaine, the poison of the tombs, to kill the foul bird?

"A cigarrera wouldn't be so shameless!"

Keep still yourself, shameless creature!

You think everybody's shameless and that you're the only good person.

"What shameless impertinence!

Omitting then the wound received by religion generally under Henry VIII., and the shameless secularizations clandestinely effected during the reigns of Elizabeth and the first James, I am disposed to consider the three following as the grand evil epochs of our present Church.

She was fearless, shameless, insane.

The passage which doubtless provoked his noble rage against shameless scribblers was part of a debate between Lilliputian Court ladies who were anxious lest their having been seen by Gulliver in a delicate situation should reflect on their reputations.

He delivered this shameless reversal of a passionately asserted opinion without a quiver.

Then a shameless exhibition of Venus followed, and Philammon could bear no more.

You must know, Sir, I am provoked to write you this Letter by the Behaviour of an infamous Woman, who having passed her Youth in a most shameless State of Prostitution, is now one of those who gain their Livelihood by seducing others, that are younger than themselves, and by establishing a criminal Commerce between the two Sexes.

As the House of this shameless Creature is frequented by several Foreigners, I have heard of another Artifice, out of which she often raises Money.

"A hardened and shameless tea-drinker," Johnson called himself, who "with tea amuses the evenings, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the mornings."

But it is not like the withering curse of a tyrant's power; not like the degrading and brutalizing power of the slave-driver's lash, chains, and thumb-screws; not like the beastly, demonical power of rum, nor like the brazen, shameless power of lust; but a power that elevates and refines the intellect; directs the affections; controls unholy passions; a power so

" The following is a specimen of the shameless hardihood with which a professed minister of the Gospel, and editor of a religious paper, assumes the right to hold God's image as a chattel.

" Is the slaveholder, the most absolute and shameless of all despots, to be intrusted with the discipline of the injured men whom he himself has reduced to cattle?with the discipline by which they are to be prepared to wield the powers and enjoy the privileges of freemen?

Upon him was conferred by the grateful people the authority that had first been given Jonathan by the shameless Alexander Balas.

Ptolemy, who was besieged in the castle of Dok, saved his miserable life only by shameless perfidy.