Recal that Folly, or by all that's good, I'll free the Soul that wantons in thy Blood.

The philandering knights were sensual boobies, the simpering dames soulless wantons.

From thence commeth the Latine prouerbe, that daunsers play the fooles, or wantons, but it is with measure.

She was an animal, a female centaur, a wanton and a strumpet, as all negresses are wantons and strumpets.

Come, you are wantons both: If I were absent, You would with as much willingness traduce

With rustling sound the yellow foliage flies, And wantons with the wind in rapid whirls, The gurgling rivulet to the vallies hies, Whilst on its bank the spangled serpent curls.

By her discretion she hath children not wantons; a husband without her is a misery to man's apparel:

His mien is lofty, his demeanour great; Nor sprightly folly wantons in his air; Nor dull serenity becalms his eyes.

Deliverance is at hand; for Turkey's tyrant, Sunk in his pleasures, confident and gay, With all the hero's dull security, Trusts to my care his mistress and his life, And laughs, and wantons in the jaws of death.

Fathers then feared no daughter's birth, for dread Of wantons courting wealth; nor were their homes Emptied with exile.

Thither had they fled out of cities, out of a rotten, dying world of tyrants and slaves, hypocrites and wantons, to ponder undisturbed on duty and on judgment, on death and eternity.

" There is in all this a play of fancy, a glitter of words, a shallowness of thought, and a want of truth and solidity that is wonderful, and that nothing but the heedless, rapid glide of the verse could render tolerable:it seems that the poet, as well as the lover, "May bestride the Gossamer, That wantons in the idle, summer air, And yet not fall, so light is vanity!"

The Tahitian women had no jealousy of these wantons, or, at least, no condemnation of them.

When her husband wantons with the marchioness Aldabella, Bianca, out of jealousy, accuses him to the duke of Florence of being privy to the death of Bartol'do, an old miser.

We shall repress that elation of malignity, which wantons in the cruelties of criticism, and not only murders reputation, but murders it by torture.

SEE Quentin, Patrick, pseud. Puzzle for wantons.

Puzzle for wantons, by Patrick Quentin, pseud. of Hugh Wheeler & Richard W. Webb.

Thou mirror to the mountains that enclose Thy shores with zone magnificent;in storm, Or calmwhen summer wantons with thy waves, Or winter clouds thy crystal brow with gloom, Oh! mayst thou still entrance the wanderer's eye, And keep congenial quiet in his soul.

While the poor widows who had been respectably married are deprived of all ornaments and joys of life, these wantons are decked with fine clothes, flowers, and jewelry; and gold is showered upon them.

never, neverthis truth will I repeatshould men of sense, who have wives, allow women-folks to visit them in their homes, for they teach them mischief; one, to gain some private end, helps to corrupt their honor; another having made a slip herself, wants a companion in misfortune, while many are wantons; and hence it is men's houses are tainted.

The river, small and clear in its origin, gushes forth from rocks, falls into deep glens, and wantons and meanders through a wild and picturesque country, nourishing only the uncultivated tree or flower by its dew or spray.

I seem to hear, I seem to move, And wander through the happy grove, Where smooth springs flow, and murm'ring breeze, Wantons through the waving trees.

PETR. 'While sleep oppresses the tired limbs, the mind Plays without weight, and wantons unconfined.' 488.

Servants, wantons, outcasts, the insane, the morally ill, all were given consideration in this new religion of compassion.

House, all unconscious of what is in store for it, wantons at play.