weal

• A common weal, which is not able to seal the dykes of New Orleans but, in the twinkling of an eye, burdens one million times one million dollars on the general public, has to be regarded as hostage of a manic financial sector, hell-bent on anything. —  IntelliBriefs
• So near to absolute safety, and yet so utterly in the dark as to what the next moment, might develop--weal or woe At least the sound of rapidly working rowlocks came to the girl's ears. —  Truxton King A Story of Graustark
• Envy and malice will always find a convenient shelter in pretended devotion to the public weal, and will seek revenge for their own lack of success by putting on the cloak of the tribune of the people, and perverting the noblest of offices to the basest uses But time sets all things even. —  George Washington, Volume II
• It would conduce to the public, weal, and to their personal respectability. —  The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton
• In his instance likewise the individual life was sacrificed for the common weal, and the beautiful for the useful Plautus His younger contemporary, Titus Maccius Plautus (500?-570), appears to have been far inferior to him both in outward position and in the conception of his poetic calling. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

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