"They say this town is full of cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many such like libertines of sin.

This invitation brought "unsettled persons," libertines in unrestrained opinions, from abroad to disseminate their peculiar views.

He was not a libertine like Henry IV., nor an egotist like Napoleon.

Will it then be wondered at, that a woman prefers a libertine to a novice?While she expects in the one the confidence she wants, she considers the other and herself as two parallel lines, which, though they run side by side, can never meet.

I see the daring libertine before me.

That the tailor, for example, whom he had been speaking of, though purse-proud, overbearing, and rapacious, was not more immoral or depraved than his neighbours, and had probably less of the libertine than most of them.

Longus knew very well that nothing is so tempting to libertines as purity and ignorant innocence; hence he made purity and ignorant innocence the pivot of his prurient story.