Word: wenching
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...took it into his head that the rogue should be played hygienically. His Falstaff was a beaming and unvicious figure. One could not help feeling that he would make his next entrance down the chimney with a pack on his back instead of through the scullery door with a wench by the hair. Mr. Skinner's judgment was admissible but, in the opinion of many, at variance with Shakespeare. It is to be said that the audience laughed at him immoderately...
...learns to drink, spoon and wench. His mind takes the shape of a pinchbeck, free-lunch conquistador's. He borrows a car, skids into a tight situation, scurries from town like a rodent...
...sets out on a tour of Europe. He makes gifts; here a few pounds of rhubarb, there the skin of a black fox or a sable. Only twice does he give away an ermine, once to the Queen of Holland, once to a wench who satisfies him. At Riga he is chased away from the fortifications. At Königsberg he makes the Grand Electress blush, argues with Leibnitz, is trained in gunnery. At Berlin he rapes the Duchess of Mecklenburg. In Holland he learns anatomy and ship building. At Vienna he gets word of a revolution in Russia...
...stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife and the want of a son darkened his horizon. The mouselike wife saw, and left him that he might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with lust. That feckless wench gave him a son, but left him with ruin from her extravagance and his land debauched from overlove, overambition. The farm was sold under his feet. His boy died. But in his hour of despair, his unwanted wife stepped back into his life, as at his need she had stepped...
...convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy's soul undergoes the extremes of compassion and ruthless violence, much as the city now basks sleepily in hot sun, now is hammered with a furious hurricane, now basks again...