"Sluttishness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... few sermons in Mr. Platitude's 'chapelle,' seek for admission at the establishment of mother S—-, who, after employing them for a time in various menial offices, and making them pluck off their eyebrows hair by hair, generally dismisses them on the plea of sluttishness; whereupon they return to their papas to eat the bread of the country, with the comfortable prospect of eating it still in the shape of a pension after their sires are dead. Papa (ex uno disce omnes) living as quietly ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... wholly to commend, To please thy lady, is, That thou eschew With sluttishness thyself for to offend; Be jolly, fresh, and feat,* with thinges new, *dainty Courtly with manner, this is all thy due, Gentle of port, and loving cleanliness; This is the thing that ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer |
