| Out of the strange melange of bawdry and bloodshed would emerge the origins of his irrepressible folk humour. |
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| Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? |
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| This poetic output, at a time when post-Chaucerian England was fallow, was a combination of classic grace, religious fervour, eroticism, and bawdry which was almost hypnotic. |
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| The bawdry of Mercutio and of the Nurse is richly suited to the comic texture of the opening scenes. |
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| But many scholars challenge this claim, finding evidence in the Greek words of the bawdry of later Comic poets. |
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| He condescends to talk the silly bawdry of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. |
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| Richard Hudson's Breugelian designs are garishly colourful, down to the cerise codpieces worn by the men, and whiffs of cheerful bawdry underscore the work's latent eroticism. |
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| But in this world, simple walking is a Cockaigne miracle, like honest usury and pious bawdry. |
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| He was a pioneer in the movement against Restoration wit and bawdry which later became synonymous with Jeremy Collier. |
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| Indeed, even before he took up the Burns Fellowship, Baxter had decided that bawdry was the weapon to wield against Otago's emasculating academics. |
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