1 She did not care to be mingled in their noisy dispersal: once in the street, she always felt an irresistible return to her old standpoint, an instinctive shrinking from all that was unpolished and promiscuous.
2 As to his relations with women, they appeared to have been promiscuous but superficial.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 3 Regina's she had spent her days in the streets, partly to escape from the uncongenial promiscuities of the boarding-house, and partly in the hope that physical fatigue would help her to sleep.
4 Fantine was laid in the shade, among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the promiscuousness of ashes.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 5 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.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE 6 The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of substance.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS