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Fathers, mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The country groaned under the resultant taxation and the promiscuousness of the tribute exacted till, in 1572, John the Terrible ascended the Moldavian throne.

From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Forbes, Nevill

Episodes of that sort discourage sentiment; so does cold, hunger and discomfort incident on sardine-like promiscuousness.

From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

When the waters appear men, women, children, dogs, bipeds, quadrupeds, bathe together in tumultuous promiscuousness, of which I can give no idea, nor recommend as an example.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules

It is from the promiscuousness of all these breeds that has arisen our ordinary modern dog.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various