"Debauchee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Four Hundred" who has confessedly gone astray, to be received back on an equality with her most virtuous sisters. In ancient Sparta theft was considered proper, but getting caught a crime. Modern society has improved upon that peculiar moral code. Adultery—if the debauchee have wealth—is but a venial fault, and to be found out a trifling misfortune, calling for condolence rather than condemnation. It is not so much the number of professed prostitutes that alarms ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... "If, madam, a debauchee, a drunkard, a profligate, a brawler be your conception of a man, I would in faith you did not ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... none how you're goin' to renig,' says Dave Tutt. 'This debauchee is doo to shoot you on sight. Them army rooles shortly should permit a gent to scout off to one side the strict trail a little; partic'lar when it's come down to savin' his ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis
... perhaps in all Hogarth for serious expression. That which comes next to it, I think, is the jaded morning countenance of the debauchee in the second plate of the Marriage Alamode, which lectures on the vanity of pleasure as audibly as anything ...
— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb
... Lee is abroad, sir, I believe, in the Chase," said Charles, coldly, for the appearance of this somewhat vulgar debauchee was not agreeable to him at the moment, "and Master Albert Lee has left the Lodge for two ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott
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