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Or what can be safe to a man, that geueth himselfe to incontinency?
THE PALACE OF PLEASUREWILLIAM PAINTER
To do so, he got up a charge against her of incontinency with the cook, and put both in confinement.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 174, FEBRUARY 26, 1853VARIOUS
That a Diamond laid under the pillow, will betray the incontinency of a wife.
THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE (VOLUME 1 OF 3)THOMAS BROWNE
The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?
THE MEMORABILIAXENOPHON
The woman is denominated a sinner, because incontinency was her trade and the means of her subsistence.
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, VOL. IIFRANCIS AUGUSTUS COX
On the 16th the Six Articles Bill was moderated, in favour not of heresy, but of the more venial offence of incontinency.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE FALL OF WOLSEY TO THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH. VOL. IIIJAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
"You are charged with incontinency towards the king's highness," replied Suffolk sternly.
WINDSOR CASTLEWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters Mr. H..
MEMOIRS OF FANNY HILLJOHN CLELAND
Then did Pheroras reproach Salome for her incontinency, as did the women much more; and said that Sylleus had debauched her.
THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWSFLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
He is defamed of incontinency with Lucia de la Stubbe, a married woman (conjugata).
PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLANDEDWARD L. CUTTS

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