The 771 occurrences of pimp
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The French, who were with her, they dubbed pimps and infidels, to shame them for being in the company of a bad woman and a witch.
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When thousands after thousands are dragooned out of their country for the sake of their religion, or sent to row in the galleys for selling salt against law,--when the liberty of every individual is at the mercy of every prostitute, pimp or parasite that has access to power or any of its basest substitutes,--my mind, I own, is not at once prepared to be satisfied with gentle palliatives for such disorders" (_Francis to Burke_, November 3, 1790).
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He is a sort of detective pimp, does all their dirty work.
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In plain terms Kazaguruma Cho[u]bei was a pimp for the Yoshiwara and kindred quarters.
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--"'Tis Cho[u]bei's trade," said the pimp coolly.
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He gave the latter a fee of ten _ryo[u]_ for the excision of this excrescence, and with a sigh of joy learned of the disappearance in company of the pimp and O'Iwa.
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The pimp entered the presence of Toémon with confident and jaunty air.
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The pimp sought the feet of O'Také--"Condescend to plead for Cho[u]bei.
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In the next block it was shouted that the wife of the pimp Cho[u]bei had gone mad and killed and eaten five children.
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Said he--"'Tis rumoured the fellow is a pimp.
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The old pimp went off to his inner room; to sit down before his wine about the same time that Kibei did the same in a cook shop opposite the great gate of Yoshiwara.
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His attentive gaze never wandered from the face of the one-time pimp.
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Kichitaro[u], or Kazuma the diviner, as he called himself, murders Cho[u]bei the pimp; a deed carried out before witnesses."
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It had been recovered from the dead pimp's corpse.
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Led by the _banto[u]_ he made the rounds of all--pimps, bawds, and bouncers--soliciting their influence--"Honoured gentlemen of the Yoshiwara, deign to interfere in the matter, to plead with the master of the Uedaya.
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~179~~ With pimp *-a-t in the van, The Spy of an old Spy; Who beat up for recruits in town, Mong little girls, in chequer'd gown, Of ages rather shy.
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One or two characters I must not omit: observe the fair Cyprian with the ermine tippet, seated on the right of a well-known _billiard sharp_, who made his escape from Dublin for having dived a little too deep into the pockets of his brother emeralders; here he passes for a swell, and has abandoned his former profession for the more honest union of callings, a pimp and playman, in other words, a finished _Greek_.
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Pimps and dependents once her beauties praised, And on those beauties, vermin-like, they fed; From wretchedness the crew her bounty raised, When by her spoils enrich'd--deny her bread.
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A pick-axe and a common labourer will do the one--a little lawyer, a little pimp, a wicked Minister the other."
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He called a political antagonist a "pimp," and thought a crushing argument lay in the word; he called parsons scoundrels, and bade his boys be regular at church.
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Not a movement would be seen, not a sound or a breath heard, only an ominous, suspicious silence reigned; it meant that these were some of my people absconding, being perhaps led off by a pimp from another garden--and woe betide the pimp if caught.
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_Underwritten._ Mr. Pimp, had I known your Worship was there, Which I no more dreamt of, than sleeping, When once I'd dispatch'd my Affair with the Fair, By G----d, you'd paid dear for your Peeping.
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It was a consistent feeling, and common with the mercantile of this world; to whom the accidents of fortune are every thing, and the qualities of mind nothing; whose affections ebb and flow towards friends, relations--yea, their own flesh and blood, with the varying tide of wealth: whom a luckless speculation in cotton makes an enemy, and gambling gains in corn restore a friend; men who fall down mentally before the golden calf, and offer up their souls to Nebuchadnezzar's idol: men who never saw harm nor shame in the craftiest usurer or meanest pimp, provided he has thousands in the three per cents.
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Then be thou e'en at thy will surly and savage o' mood: Or, an thou love o'er-well those moneys, prithee no longer Prove thee a pimp and withal surly and savage o' mood.
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He is drawn under two widely different characters: In classic story he is depicted as an admirable archer, slain by Diomed, and honored as a hero-god in his own country; but in mediæval romance he is represented as a despicable pimp, insomuch that the word _pander_ is derived from his name.
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=Peach´um=, a pimp, patron of a gang of thieves, and receiver of their stolen goods.
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_Pantalone_ was a Venetian merchant; _Dottore_ a Bolognese physician; _Spaviento_ a Neapolitan braggadocio; _Pullicinella_ a wag of Apulia; _Giangurgolo_ and _Coviello_ two clowns of Calabria; _Gelsomino_ a Roman beau; _Beltrame_ a Milanese simpleton; _Brighella_ a Ferrarese pimp; and _Arlecchino_ a blundering servant of Bergamo.
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The edifices of the mind, like the fabrics of marble, require an age to build, but ask only minutes to precipitate; and as the fall of both is an effort of no time, so neither is it a business of any strength--a pick-axe and a common labourer will do the one--a little lawyer, a little pimp, a wicked minister the other.
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Right; and therefore you must pimp for your master.
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Ay, now is the time to prevent all this:--strike while the iron is hot.--This priest is the luckiest part of our adventure; he shall marry you, and pimp for me.
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[Footnote 15: William Chiffinch, confidential attendant and pimp to Charles II.]
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_Sancho_, Pimp to _Lucetta_, Mr. _John Lee_.
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_Blunt._ Sir, I shall be proud to follow-- Here's one of her Servants too: 'dsheartlikins, by his Garb and Gravity he might be a Justice of Peace in _Essex_, and is but a Pimp here.
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+Act III: Scene iia+ p. 54, l. 9 _Pimps!_ 1724 'Imps'.
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+Dramatis Personæ+ p. 9 _Sancho, Pimp to Lucetta.
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_Will._ 'Tis so, by Heaven, he's chaffering with her Pimp.
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Death, hadst thou lov'd my Friend for his own Value, I had esteem'd thee; but when his Youth and Beauty cou'd not plead, to be the mercenary Conquest of his Presents, was poor, below thy Wit: I cou'd have conquer'd so, but I scorn thee at that rate-- my Purse shall never be my Pimp-- Farewel, _Harry_.
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D'ye start?-- this must be done-- for you can pimp I'm sure upon occasion, you've Tools for all uses; come, resolve, or I'll discover your bloody Offer.
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Those Fools, those Pimps to Monarchy, Those that exclude the Saints; yet open th' Door, To introduce the _Babylonian Whore_.
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At any rate, a certain Auguste Papon (a mixture of pimp and _souteneur_), whom she had met in Paris, happened to be in Munich at the same time as herself.
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In the flourishing times of the Inquisition, this business of inveigling choice victims into convents was more profitable, for then murmuring could be crushed into silence, and parents dreaded to oppose the wretched pimps of superstition who came to inveigle their daughters into convents.
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He is full of devils, lies, blasphemies, and idolatries; he is anti-Christ; the robber of churches; the ravisher of virgins; the greatest of pimps; the governor of Sodom, &c. If the Turks lay hold of us, then we shall be in the hands of the Devil; but if we remain with the Pope, we shall be in hell.--What a pleasing sight would it be to see the Pope and the Cardinals hanging on one gallows in exact order, like the seals which dangle from the bulls of the Pope!
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When amatory poets sing their loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland, And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is in hand; The greater their success the worse it proves, As Ovid's verse may give to understand; Even Petrarch's self, if judged with due severity, Is the Platonic pimp of all posterity.
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Alcohol is the most efficient weapon that either the refined Don Juan or the vulgar pimp has in his possession.
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Have those young sots and pimps yet atoned for their foul impieties?'
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The Dhimar often acts as a pimp, this being an incident of his profession of indoor servant.
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In those days the beggars and pimps and pickpockets were beyond all modern conception.
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Is't not enough that we must bow to all that they decree,-- These cotton and tobacco lords, these pimps of slavery?
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Many of these pimps and panders to the whims or the passions of those in high station found their way to Quebec and Montreal, and were provided for at the public expense by being installed in places of greater or less emolument.
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A hired pimp was despatched to Boston to hunt up slanders, originating in political feuds there.
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The next class is the professional pimps.
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Some of these professional pimps are members of some of our churches, I am told.
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Looking at him going down into the left of the gut as unafeared as he had come up on the right of it, I put myself in his place, and felt the skin of my back pimp-ling at the instinct of lurking enemies.
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UPON PIMP.
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When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use, There springs a soap-like lather in his shoes.
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When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use, 409.
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"How exactly," says Mr. Ireland, "does Bramston describe the character in his _Man of Taste_:-- 'Without Italian, and without an ear, To Bononcini's music I adhere.---- To boon companions I my time would give, With players, pimps, and parasites I'd live; I would with jockeys from Newmarket dine, And to rough riders give my choicest wine.
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Blood, dung, dirt, pimp, procuress, prostitute, traitor, &c. &c. are words that (in correct company) are invariably followed by the qualifying word _hashak_.
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Come hither, Parmeno!--you're too far off.---- Stand close to that pimp's side--There--there--just there!
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If you have brawl'd enough, Please to indulge me with one word, you pimp.
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a pimp, And talks of justice!
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Well, I am a pimp; The common bane of youth, a perjurer, A public nuisance, I confess it: yet I never did you wrong.
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Think on this, Pimp, till I come back again.
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she belong'd To a most avaricious, sordid pimp; Nor had we aught to give;--th' old gentleman Had taken care of that.
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Had you, like me, a scoundrel pimp to deal with, Then you'd perceive--But sure 'tis in our nature Never to be contented.
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This pimp, I fear, will work himself no good.
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Some even pimp for them and supply them with prostitutes or even married women, and cut huge slices off the father's savings for old age, if they don't run off with them altogether.
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In short, scarce was any ware of him when from a thief, a pimp, a forger, a manslayer, he suddenly became a great preacher, without having for all that forsworn the vices aforesaid, whenas he might secretly put them in practice.
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It has its domestics, its pimps, its spies, its informers, its assassins, its bullies, its aiders, its abettors,--in fact, its scoundrels of every description; particularly its hireling swindlers, who are paid for decoying the unwary into this 'hell upon earth,' so odious to morality, and so destructive to virtue and Christianity.
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FONDLEWIFE, a banker--Mr. Dogget SETTER, a pimp--Mr Underhill SERVANT to Fondlewife.
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I wonder to which of these two gentlemen I do most properly appertain: the one uses me as his attendant; the other (being the better acquainted with my parts) employs me as a pimp; why, that's much the more honourable employment--by all means.
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Undoubtedly 'tis impossible to be a pimp and not a man of parts.
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Now poverty and the pox light upon thee for a contemplative pimp.
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For he's the head pimp to Mr. Bellmour.
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Sublimate, if you please, sir: I think my achievements do deserve the epithet--Mercury was a pimp too, but, though I blush to own it, at this time, I must confess I am somewhat fallen from the dignity of my function, and do condescend to be scandalously employed in the promotion of vulgar matrimony.
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As how, dear, dexterous pimp?
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So-h--that precious pimp too--damned, damned strumpet!
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It was brought to greatness--if inflated circulation be a synonym--by a veritable journalistic pimp who pandered to the public taste for literary virgins by bribing them to commit their perverse acts in full view.
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You will get some miserable lickspittle to take my place, some mangy bookkeeping pimp with a permanentwaved wife and three snottynosed brats, but the spirit and guts of the _Intelligencer_ depart with W R Le ffaçasé."
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Most of this class of unfortunates have a "lover"--a gambler or pimp, who occupies their room and assumes the role of husband and protector for the nonce, with the privilege of spending the girl's blood money in drink or dissipation, and unmercifully beating her when he feels inclined that way.
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Grouped around him are the rooms and haunts of hundreds of prostitutes, with their pimps, thieves and pick-pockets who thrive in such atmosphere.
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These monstrous portents that before me rise Of mitred pimps, and coronetted spies!
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[C] 'No stronger satire could be penned than that descriptive of the Court of Charles, in the poem called 'Britannia and Raleigh:'-- 'A colony of French possess the Court, Pimps, priests, buffoons, in privy chambers sport; Such slimy monsters ne'er approach'd a throne Since Pharaoh's days, nor so defil'd a crown; In sacred ears tyrannic arts they croak, Pervert his mind, and good intentions choak.'
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He was a beast this guide, ready to swear he knew everything, a filthy, thick-lipped pimp who offered his good services again when night came.
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Frau Hadebusch, pimp always, had rented the bed from a second-hand dealer; it covered a half of the room.
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(The cowls were mightier far than they, Yet fled before that King of Jokers) O for a slash of Fielding's pen To bleed these pimps of Melancholy!
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The pallid pimp of the dead-line, the enervate of the pen, One by one I weeded them out, for all that I sought was--Men.
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"Sir, I have the honour to tell you that you are a pimp, lately escaped from the Fleet."
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The populace rushed forth in crowds, accompanied by an infamous band of pimps, players, buffoons, and charioteers, by their utility in vicious pleasures all well known and dear to Vitellius.
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Ptolemy gave him to the old general Arintheus, for whom he very skilfully exercised the profession of a pimp.
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Smirking at himself, the wry smile soon fell flat at the thought that even ugly pimps who were affluent from their brutish, sexual peccadilloes might be considered equally sexy; and he sighed at his bland fame.
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In the seats of his car parked around forested areas within Bangkok's outlying roadside parks (the woods therein avoided because of the bigger probability of the brambles of "queers" accosting him), in forests far from the city, against walls of women's toilets in gas stations, in discotheque parking lots, in hotel rooms, empty upper staircases, in boyfriends' and husbands' beds when they were out, several times, under banana and durian trees in one particular father's orchard, once in a pimp's bedroom when he was out, many times in the villagers own bedrooms while they slept on living room floors eager to take advantage of his copulatory pleasure to get a bit of financial support for their families and fame for the daughters' whose beauty he, the surrogate husband, would preserve on canvases, abandoned buildings and tall skeletal structures that were never quite built after the 1996 financial meltdown, once backstage with a Russian ballerina after a performance of Swan Lake at the Thai Cultural Center, several times between two enormous trash bins at a stadium and once under its bleachers, never in his and Noppawon's home unless occasionally with Noppawan herself but very often in his studio, he had released his snake to a mostly strange and less than angelic array of females who too were victims of poverty and exploitation.
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Thus ran his new version of "The Fine Old English Gentleman, to be said or sung at all conservative dinners:" I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate; When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate On ev'ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev'ry noble gate.
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To this vocation, a vocation compared with which the life of a beggar, of a pickpocket, of a pimp, is honourable, did Barere now descend.
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Wyoming is to be commended also for having the following statute respecting persons known as pimps: Whoever being a male person, frequents houses of ill-fame, or of assignation, or associates with females known or reputed as prostitutes, or frequents gambling houses with prostitutes, or is engaged in or about a house of prostitution, is a pimp, and shall be fined in any sum not more than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not more than sixty days.
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It was taking part in an active campaign, in which fighting was expected, and the idea was intolerable that the other boys should be at the front, marching and fighting, while I was in the rear, playing the part of a "hospital pimp."
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All you, my pimps, parasites, and pensioners--my leading mistresses and led captain--my mummers and melo-dramatists, who conspire to drill holes in the breeches-pockets of John Bull, that his coin may not corrode for want of circulation; if ever this fellow enters my house again, with his deer-stealing Stratford vagabond under his arm, tie them both up in a hopsack, and throw them into the Thames!