"Sodomy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had a special scale for taxes on particular sins. Sodomy was charged twelve ducats; sacrilege and perjury, nine; murder, seven or eight; witchcraft and polygamy, from two to six; taking the life of a parent, brother, sister, or an infant, from one ...
— Luther and the Reformation: - The Life-Springs of Our Liberties • Joseph A. Seiss
... chose the torrid zone of Italy, Where blood ferments in rapes and sodomy: Where swelling veins o'erflow with living streams, With heat impregnate from Vesuvian flames; Whose flowing sulphur forms infernal lakes, And human body of the soil partakes. There nature ever burns with hot desires, Fann'd with luxuriant air from subterranean fires: ...
— The True-Born Englishman - A Satire • Daniel Defoe
... very miserable place to live in, it is common to leave malefactors here when they do not incline to put them to death. This was done not long before our author passed this way, to a Dutch book-keeper, who was convicted of sodomy; though perhaps this may be considered as a worse punishment even than death, considering the miseries that must be endured in the hottest climate of the world, on a place that does not afford even the slightest shelter. After leaving this island, they began to approach the line, which ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr |
