adultery
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Law describes the “solemn cloisters” haunted by the apparition of Catherine Howard, the king’s fifth wife, who was executed after accusations of adultery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Paxton, whose unsavory resume includes impeachment, indictment, petty theft and charges of adultery, has managed the rare feat of turning his race against Talarico into a nail-biter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Princess Diana's famous "revenge dress" that she wore on the evening that then-Prince Charles made a public admission of adultery is to be auctioned in New York in December.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
State Sen. Angela Paxton said in a 2025 divorce filing that Paxton, whom she accused of adultery, moved out of their Collin County home a year earlier.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
This 1815 lithograph depicts the scandalous adultery trial of the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Marry Me: 'It crossed my mind to keep running totals of the divorces, separations, adulteries, sexual humiliations, maimings, deaths and thwarted hopes that these tiny stories compass.'
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013
Dissidents charged that Garner Ted had not properly repented his adulteries, adding that other church sinners had not been treated so forgivingly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between fashionable adulteries unrolls the story of Johnnie's employer, Chance Winter, an Englishman with world-wide armament connections which he uses to promote the subversive ends of an international secret organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
He baptized children and confessed adulteries of heart....
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
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