strumpet
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Great King, I am no strumpet, by my life; I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.
From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
From this incident we may learn to know how evil Fortune exerts her rage against a poor right-minded man, and how the strumpet Luck can help a miserable rascal.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds
I must begin by stating that I do not accept implicitly Shakespeare's angry declarations that his mistress was a mere strumpet.
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
For the third degree, they prouided Bridewell, where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised, and compelled to labour, to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
Anne Boleyn was no strumpet; she was King Henry's lawful wife, and Elizabeth is the king's legitimate daughter!
From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce
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