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I should say that one person out of every fifty is a victim of this frightful habit, which claims its doomed votaries from the extremes of social life, those who have the most and the least to live for, the upper classes and the cyprian, professional men of the finest intelligence, fifty per cent of whom are doctors and walk into the pit with eyes wide open.
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Here the cyprian nymphs hold their nocturnal revels; but intrigue is attended with great danger, as the stilletto is in general use, and assassination frequent, the men being of a jealous sanguinary turn, and the women fond of gallantry, who never appear in public unveiled.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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I should say that one person out of every fifty is a victim of this frightful habit, which claims its doomed votaries from the extremes of social life, those who have the most and the least to live for, the upper classes and the cyprian, professional men of the finest intelligence, fifty per cent. of whom are doctors and walk into the pit with eyes wide open.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The conglomeration of personalities effaces the identity alike of the statesman and the artist, the savant and the cyprian.
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The conglomeration of personalities effaces the identity alike of the statesman and the artist, the savant and the cyprian.
Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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The conglomeration of personalities effaces the identity alike of the statesman and the artist, the savant and the cyprian.
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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At the expiration of five years from their union, Hart set off for town with a gay cyprian, whom he had long been suspected of having kept.
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829
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On her departure from this lover, which proceeded entirely from her own caprice and restless extravagance, the vain Aug -- ta launched at once into all the dangerous pleasures of a cyprian life.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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Irishman, making a bargain with pug-nosed Peg, a sort of half-bred pinafore cyprian, whose disappointments during the night induced her to try at obtaining a morning customer.
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Blunt, who is sitting half-clad, and in no pleasant mood owing to his having been tricked of clothes and money and turned into the street by a common cyprian, greets her roughly enough, but is mollified by the present of a diamond ring.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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