Crossword-Solution: HARLOTRY 8 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

This house of harlotry doth smell, I flee as from the pest; Your mother likes my sire too well; To hie me home is best.

One need only think over his books and his subjects to be convinced of this: "L'Assommoir" and drunkenness; "Nana" and harlotry; "Germinale" and strikes; "L'Argent" and money getting and losing in all its branches; "Pot-Bouille" and the cruel squalor of poverty; "La Terre" and the life of the peasant; "Le Debacle" and the decay of imperialism.

Asaph's, an eminent Puritan, “that these players are wont, in their plays, not only to introduce profane and lewd expressions, tending to foster sin and harlotry; but even to bellow out such reflections on government, its origin and its object, as tend to render the subject discontented, and shake the solid foundations of civil society.

Madame Marneffe, twenty-three years of age, a pure and bashful middle-class wife, a blossom hidden in the Rue du Doyenne, could know nothing of the depravity and demoralizing harlotry which the Baron could no longer think of without disgust, for he had never known the charm of recalcitrant virtue, and the coy Valerie made him enjoy it to the utmost--all along the line, as the saying goes.

That I am drunk, I know it by my soun’: And therefore if that I misspeak or say, *Wite it* the ale of Southwark, I you pray: *blame it on* For I will tell a legend and a life Both of a carpenter and of his wife, How that a clerk hath *set the wrighte’s cap*.” *fooled the carpenter* The Reeve answer’d and saide, “*Stint thy clap*, *hold your tongue* Let be thy lewed drunken harlotry.