| 1. | Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | What rein can hold licentious wickedne. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | But chief he gloried with licentious styl. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | With all licentious measure, making your will. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | First, we may observe that the relations of the sexes supposed by him are the reverse of licentious he seems rather to aim at an impossible strictness. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 6. | Though the work is in most respects inferior, there are a few passages in the Laws, such as the honour due to the soul, the evils of licentious or unnatural love, the whole of Book x. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | And then he got into the company of a more refined, licentious sort of people, and taking to all their wanton ways rushed into the opposite extreme from an abhorrence of his father's meanness. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 8. | "This is one of the most licentious corruptions of orthography," says Tyrwhitt, "that I remember to have observed in Chaucer" but such liberties were common among the European poets of his time. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | It is in such countries only, that the public safety does not require that the sovereign should be trusted with any discretionary power, for suppressing even the impertinent wantonness of this licentious liberty. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |