Paternal.-Syphilis ,alcoholism ,leadpoisoning, excessive venery, extremes of youth or old age.

Fifthly, By the too frequent reiteration of the act of venery.

Why is there such delight in the act of venery?

Better Seneca for you than sensuality; Virgilius than venery.

But both retribution and venery were somewhat mechanical; they were the expected rather than the inescapable passions.

And therefore the book of venery, of hawking, and hunting, is called the book of Sir Tristram.

How come women to be prone to venery in the summer time and men in the winter?

The venery, where the beagles and hounds were kept, was a little farther off, drawing towards the park.

And such is the curse that arises from lynchings and venery and extortions and dehumanizings,-sterility ; adumbnessof soul.

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence?

Though of a slight and delicate figure, he excelled in all manly exercises and sports and in venery and hawking.

You say that you feel in you the pricking stings of sensuality, by which you are stirred up to venery.

I have given orders that he be kept under surveillance until the right moment comes for us to expose his venery.

But if you will accept me of the hunt I will follow you gladly and teach you other crafts of venery.

Prawn-hunting was agreeably varied by fish-snaring, mussel-stalking, and mushroom-trapping-sportswhich James, in his capacity of Head Forester, included in his venery.

They wonder why I came not to revile venery and vice; and verily, I came not to warn against pickpockets either!