Sentence examples for bawd from inspiring English sources

Originally published in 16 acts as the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea (1499; "Comedy of Calisto and Melibea") and shortly thereafter in an expanded version with 21 acts as the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (1502), the work has been popularly known since its publication as La Celestina after its chief character, the bawd who serves as the go-between for the young lovers Calisto and Melibea.

During the following several years she wandered about the West, working as cook, dance-hall girl, camp follower, and bawd and doing whatever necessary to earn a living.

I was taught to think, and I was willing to believe, that genius was not a bawd, that virtue was not a mask, that liberty was not a name, that love had its seat in the human heart.

And Mia's young sister, a tiny bawd, says such things as "I like you.

In ruminative asides, she wishes to impress us with her life's "antinomies": privacy and exposure; solitude and plurality; confinement and escape; propriety and transgression — the conflict between the vestal and the bawd who shape her character.

Donne was, in fact, a rake and a bawd before he became a preacher and, in the fullness of time, the dean of St . Pauls Cathedral, famous for his sermons and celebrated at court.

Thus women were seen as vulnerable to male seduction, particularly by unscrupulous rakes who plotted with bawds to ensnare the innocent.

Terence's bawds, slaves, and foolish old men were replaced by chaste Christian maids, honest men, and constant Christians.

Expatriate writer Jerome Charyn went back to American colonial times for his raucous story of soldiers, spies, and bawds in Johnny One-Eye, a pitch-perfect rendering of the Revolutionary War period.

"At the sight of blackbirds / Flying in a green light, / Even the bawds of euphony / Would cry out sharply".

Paula Rego, a purveyor of deeply uneasy fantasy, has drawn images of old bawds sewing up girls for sale, and has dealt with the issue of female genital mutilation.