Example Sentences

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Lusts, loyalties and betrayals are as entwined as jungle vines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The three beasts who dispute his way are the sins that most easily beset us, Pride, the Lusts of the Flesh, and Greed.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

Lusts produce evils by their enjoyments, and when evils are deemed allowable, as they are when will and understanding agree on it, the enjoyments and the evils make one.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.

And so may we complain, that Idleness hinders us in our Spiritual Warfare against our Lusts.

From The Curtezan unmasked or, The Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust. by Annonymous

Now Anger and irritability are more natural than Lusts when in excess and for objects not necessary.

From Ethics by Aristotle