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Sentences starting with dissipation

Dissipation and corrosion had set their seal upon him, had stamped his yellow face with crows' feet and blotted it with pimples. [9]

Sentences ending with dissipation

It ill accords with our desires, as tranquil travelers, to be plunged into such a vortex of slow dissipation. [4]
The owner of the voice bore all the marks of a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. [5]
Yet I knew that in the Intendant's Palace and among the officers of the army there was abundance, with revelry and dissipation. [11]
So he proposes that he should hand the dupe the money, and the latter should lend it to the swindler's brother, exacting a heavy pre-payment of interest which, it is pointed out, they may equally enjoy in dissipation. [5]
Laura's life was rushing on now in the full stream of intrigue and fashionable dissipation. [5]
He invented details of his experience among them, and March could not always help joining in the laugh at Conrad's humorless helplessness under Fulkerson's burlesque denunciation of a summer outing spent in such dissipation. [8]
Parties, picnics, rowing-matches, moonlight strolls, nutting expeditions in the October woods,--Alice declared that it was a whirl of dissipation. [5]
He had brought also to the city the stamina of three generations of plain living--a splendid capital, by which the city is constantly reinforced, and which one generation does not exhaust, except by the aid of extreme dissipation. [4]

More example sentences with the word dissipation in them

Had one stood within "the Hunter's Room," as it was called, a little while before, one would have seen a man's head bowed before a woman, and her hand smoothing back the hair from the handsome brow where dissipation had drawn some deep lines. [11]
The night was well forward, and an air of recklessness and dissipation pervaded this splendid room in De Lancy Scovel's house. [11]
Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to that he decided to go. [2]
You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! [5]
It is said that the vast majority of the Heidelberg students are hard workers, and make the most of their opportunities; that they have no surplus means to spend in dissipation, and no time to spare for frolicking. [5]
There was nothing specially to distinguish him from a dozen others, who led the same life of vacuity, of mild dissipation, of enforced pleasure. [4]
It suits you so badly--all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it! [2]
After years of skulking retirement and dissipation, death had relieved him of his troubles at last, and his funeral followed close upon that of Mr. Hawkins. [5]
His face was pale, but it had its old, open, fearless look, which dissipation had not greatly marred. [11]
If a person of high standing squanders his fortune in dissipation, and closes his career with strychnine or a bullet, "Temporary Aberration" is what was the trouble with him. [5]
There is certainly no sort of evidence that he engaged in the common dissipation of the town, nor gave himself up to those pleasures which a man rescued from the hardships of captivity in Tartaria might be expected to seek. [4]
He spends his nights, not in social dissipation, but in gathering in rats, mice, flying-squirrels, and also birds. [4]
The centurion was nearly sixty years of age, and his frame, originally a powerful one, was now broken by every sort of dissipation, and could no longer resist the effects of the strain and excitement of this night. [10]
There were too much luxury and idleness and triviality in it, too much Carmen and Count Crispo and flirtation and dissipation in it. [4]
Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. [5]
Before dissipation had made him look ten years older than he was, there had been no handsomer man in all America. [11]
A strawberry festival is about as far as the dissipation of our social gatherings ventures. [6]
Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all. [5]
A few friends I should like to have, and these few I should like to know well; If such knowledge brought proportionate regard, I could not help concentrating my feelings; dissipation, I think, appears synonymous with dilution. [14]
In his investigations he was assisted by Mr. De Long, to whom this social life was absolutely new, and who was disposed to regard it as peculiarly Yankee--the staid dissipation of a serious-minded people. [4]
Twice more Mrs. Fields rose, but he wouldn't go--and he didn't go till half past 10 --an unwarrantable dissipation for him in these days. [5]
As for his face, 'twas as handsome as ever, for dissipation sat well upon it. [9]
He admired it, even as he detested the ardent strength of Detricand's face, where the wrinkles of dissipation had given way to the bronzed carven look of the war-beaten soldier. [11]
But the excursion enjoyed its staid dissipation amazingly. [4]
They got to continuing this delicious dissipation until past midnight; and at every seance Aleck lavished millions upon great charities and religious enterprises, and Sally lavished like sums upon matters to which (at first) he gave definite names. [5]
You ruined John Brown, with your dissipation and your sneers at religion and your- 'I-wonder-nows! [11]
Now I don't approve of dissipation, and I don't indulge in it, either; but I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices, and so I don't want to hear from you any more. [5]
Not that his appearance was shocking, although the well-clad, athletic figure was growing a trifle heavy, and the light from the side lamps of the car revealed dissipation in a still handsome face. [9]
Come right out and tell me you've found out somehow what a shape I'm in on account of dissipation and foolishness. [5]
He was not a drunkard; he might have had no vice, so free was his face from any sign of dissipation or indulgence; but there was suffering, possibly the marks of some endured shame. [11]

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