In the United States the persecutions of comstockery are worse than here.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
In comstockery, if I do not err, the new Puritanism gave a sign of its formal departure from the old, and moral endeavour suffered a general overhauling and tightening of the screws.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken
"Trilby" is assaulted by the united comstockery of a dozen cities, and "The Yoke" somehow escapes.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken