Thus women were seen as vulnerable to male seduction, particularly by unscrupulous rakes who plotted with bawds to ensnare the innocent. |
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At the very worst, real mothers suffer by analogy with bawds and pimps. |
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Paula Rego, a purveyor of deeply uneasy fantasy, has drawn images of old bawds sewing up girls for sale, and has dealt with the issue of female genital mutilation. |
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Expatriate writer Jerome Charyn went back to American colonial times for his raucous story of soldiers, spies, and bawds in Johnny One-Eye, a pitch-perfect rendering of the Revolutionary War period. |
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Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law. |
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It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches. |
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