bawd


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7-12) The bawd's dying request is for 'a gill', and so appetite is escapable only in death.
When Claudio fails to meet her expectations, Isabella compares him to a bawd who "take[s] life" (3.1.139) from sinful sexual exchange, claiming that his "sin's not accidental, but a trade" (3.1.148).
It's why I always watch the annual booze and bawd fest that is the British Comedy Awards - and why it's still the best gong-giving do of the year.
Entry forms must be submitted to the Bys yr Bawd shop in town 36 hours before the show.
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams witnessed an argument between Fielding and Clive, sparked by his intention of casting her as the bawd in The Wedding Day.
Of the 865 women who returned for the one-week follow-up, 1% from each provider group had had an incomplete abortion, but none had experienced a serious complication that required a blood transfusion or hospitalization, or that resulted in injury to the cervix, uterus or bawd. Fewer than 1% of women treated by either type of provider experienced adverse symptoms, such as cramping, abdominal pain, fever, minor bleeding or vaginal discharge.
Some years before Stefenelli's work, a short article by Raphael Levy, entitled 'The Etymology of English "Bawd" and Cognate Terms', (20) had drawn attention to what he called 'the inadequate treatment accorded them by the New English Dictionary' (p.
An old 'Bawd' who keeps them contd singing at intervals patches of lewd songs for the purpose of enticing us astray.
Since becoming Sierra Club executive director in 1992, Pope has sought common ground with groups that bawd t always felt comfortable within the fold of the environmental movement.
And the Bawd, a sassy madam with pendulous breasts, treads uncomfortably close to racial caricature.