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1820, George Colman, The Rodiad, London: Cadell, page 35:
Propose to scourge the diabolic flesh, For ever tortured and for ever fresh; Cut up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens, Man-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans;
Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment.
2001, Richard Davenport-Hines, chapter 5, in The Pursuite of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 102:
[…] some men also found that it relaxed their anal sphincters, enabling them more comfortably to be sodomised.
2016, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Birth of a Dream Weaver, New York and London: The New Press, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86,
There are only a few whispers here and there, and sometimes one or two who are so crazed by the experience that they talk—of torture but they don’t give details. Men too, sodomized with bottles; some, their testicles crushed, nor can they talk about it, except when the “craziness” overtakes them.
1641, anonymous author, The Life and Death of John Atherton Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lysmore, London:
Suppose a Devill from th’infernall Pit, More Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet, Contrary to course, taking a male fiend To Sodomize with him, such was the mind Of this Lord Bishop,
1968, Colin Simpson, chapter 7, in Greece: The Unclouded Eye, New York: Fielding Publications, page 229:
Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together.
1980, Colin Smith, chapter 3, in The Cut-Out, New York: Viking, published 1981, page 19:
Well, he’d been wrong, hadn’t he […] thought Dover, reducing speed to avoid sodomizing an articulated truck which had decided to leap into the centre lane.
1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18,
‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. ’
2002, Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, London: Vintage, published 2003, page 57:
[…] she looked around the empty rooms and faced, and knew, and ate, and got rightly sodomised by, her shame.
1864 September, “What will come of re-electing Lincoln”, in The Old Guard, volume 2, number 9, page 199:
The depravity of manners, the scandalous indecency and obscenity of Lincoln’s own daily conversation [i.e. lifestyle], seems to have fallen like a fatal epidemic upon the people. He has Sodomized the nation.
1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12,
An inspiration that is infernal enough to organize a conspiracy to overthrow this government, for the purpose of establishing on its ruins the odious and sodomizing empire of Slavery, is bad enough, and mean enough, to be a cowardly assassin.
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