1 Nothing stirred within his soul but a cold and cruel and loveless lust.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 2 Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 3 He had felt a subtle, dark, and murmurous presence penetrate his being and fire him with a brief iniquitous lust: it, too, had slipped beyond his grasp leaving his mind lucid and indifferent.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 4 There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 5 But now, after the kindling again of so many memories, the first touch of her body, musical and strange and perfumed, sent through him a keen pang of lust.
6 A dull anger began to gather again at the back of his mind and the dull fires of his lust began to glow angrily in his veins.
7 But when she had gone to bed, he and Mrs Bolton would gamble on till two and three in the morning, safely, and with strange lust.
8 Mrs Bolton was caught in the lust as much as Clifford: the more so, as she nearly always lost.
9 His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET 10 To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.
11 The northern nations have not that heat in their blood, nor that raging lust for women, so common in Africa.
12 For the latter lack opportunities which the former have in abundance; and the moving cause is equally strong in both, lust of power being at least as strong a passion as lust of revenge.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 13 The facts of the crime appear to appeal more to the Negro's lustful imagination than the facts of the punishment do to his fears.
14 No other news goes out to the world save that which stamps us as a race of cutthroats, robbers and lustful wild beasts.
15 But neither laws nor lynchings can subdue his lusts.