Sentence examples for a harlot from inspiring English sources

The event's title Splendours and Miseries: Images of Prostitution 1850-1910, is borrowed from Honoré de Balzac's Comédie Humaine novel A Harlot High and Low (Splendeurs and Misères des Courtisanes).

The "old urban legend" of young girls being apprehended from the crowd by devious bawds is illustrated by William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress, but although in reality such stories were not unheard of, women entered into prostitution for a variety of reasons, often mundane.

And he married a harlot.

The Franks enthroned a harlot in the Patriarch's chair.

Wang Lung's old father protests the decadence of catering to a "harlot" in the house.

Gorgeous red lips that won't make you look like a harlot.

One of the six market ladies (she sells eggs) gets to attack a harlot.

E: Soon I'll be running around shamelessly with vermilion lips like a harlot.

On another occasion he repulsed their assault on him at Gaza, where he had gone to visit a harlot.

They pointed at her knee-length dress and called her a prostitute, a harlot, a useless woman.

Look, just because Demelza has red hair it doesn't mean she is a harlot, OK? How many times?