forbidden indulgence

Example Sentences

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With the growth of wealth marriage has become a luxury even to the rich, and for the comparatively poor a forbidden indulgence.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

Then she bit her nails nervously, but soon desisted, remembering that that also, as well as yielding to a relaxed tendency of the spinal column, was a forbidden indulgence.

From At Fault by Chopin, Kate