"solitary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is by definition a solitary vice, and all the public usually gets to see is a sheeted figure being carried out to the wagon.
- But alas, I also discovered early that telling these tales to my friends could sometimes provoke boredom or scorn; the stories then became part of my buried private history, another solitary vice.
- I practiced a solitary vice.
- By 1945 that policy had worked, and anyone who still wanted to get lost in mazes like Pound's Cantos was to be left to pursue his passion like a solitary vice.
- Ever since the Judaeo-Christian Bible described the sin of Onan (Gen. 38:7-10), man has considered the seriousness and consequences of the "solitary vice."
- He also recommended, to prevent children from this "solitary vice", bandaging or tying their hands, covering their genitals with patented cages and electrical shock.
- "But to paraphrase: he analyzed your simian ancestry in some detail, and described rather graphically a solitary vice you should practice to the point of expiration."
- You will have failed as regards fornication and solitary vice; but there are other, and more indirect, methods of using a man's sexuality to his undoing.
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