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Consumed upon the altar of a withering selfishness—cramped and debased by the bonds of a narrow scepticism—man has prostituted you to vile uses.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana

It is the greatness of a personality who is endowed, no doubt, with magnificent gifts, but who has prostituted all those gifts to the baser usages.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

Mr. Coleridge's figures, properly and honestly interpreted, testify loudly to conclusions exactly the opposite of what he desires to insinuate; he has no doubt taken the statistics of the Registrar-General, but he has prostituted them.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous