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I false? thy conscience witness, Iachimo, Thou didst accuse him of incontinency, Thou then look'dst like a villain: now methinks, Thy favour's good enough.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt

Nearly a thousand clergymen gathered in New York declared him a synonym of "incapacity and incontinency."

From The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley

The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?

From The Memorabilia by Henry Graham Dakyns

Your grace may se whate a worke there is in London, howe the bisshoppe rageth for endyting of certayn curates of extorcion and incontinency the last yere in the warmoll quest.

From A Supplication for the Beggars by Simon Fish

In early infancy, already, this Merlin showed his miraculous powers, for he testified in his mother's behalf when she was accused of incontinency.

From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber


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