procuress

Example Sentences

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The cases of the gambler and the procuress did not excite Atlantic County interest as examples of routine viciousness, but as the first definite results of an unusually elaborate crusade conducted by a newspaper.

From Time Magazine Archive

The divine art is a soulless procuress; she takes your youth, your beauty and your virtue.

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

Such writers do not understand that nothing does or can exist except the ideal; nor is their art-philosophy other than "procuress to the lords of hell."

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

The art which can stoop to be "procuress to the lords of hell," is art no longer.

From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian

A parasite and procuress are standing characters in all.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John