virtuous

• Mrs. Browning gives us a clear example of this "harmless life, she called a virtuous life," in the case of the frigid aunt of "Aurora Leigh From that day, she did Her duty to me (I appreciate it In her own word as spoken to herself Her duty, in large measure, well-pressed out But measured always. —  Practical Ethics
• That wrong-headed but chivalrous relic of the Southern Confederacy, Major Putnam Stone_, would fit in as the virtuous or comic relief, his inborn lust for battle and his chance employment as a newspaper reporter being just the things to combat these felonious activities. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914
• The most singular and strongest part of human authority is properly in the wisest and the most virtuous, and these, I trow, are not the most universal." —  History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683
• His life was virtuous, and his end was pious. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• How sweet a thing it is to be virtuous, and how dear to public gratitude, to the heart of the upright judge Meanwhile, for a patriot heart, what food for amazement, what motives for anxiety! —  Dieux ont soif. English

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