wholesome

• 1863 A 'Settler in Santo Domingo' has given us a good book--a fresh, wholesome, and evidently truthful narrative of his every-day experience in the tropics. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• The country was beautiful beyond words--clean, wholesome, and vast. —  In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
• Smallbones said the letting out of malapert blood was wholesome, and others thought him still under a spell; but he seemed to have parted with much of his arrogance, either because he had not spirits for self-assertion, or because something of the grand eastern courtesy of Abenali had impressed him. —  The Armourer's Prentices
• The stick may be wholesome, and local self-government may be wholesome, but in combination or rapid alternation they are apt to work nothing but mischief either in Ionian or any other islands. —  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
• And as for the women My eyes," said he, "have not found one resting place that deserves to be called a wholesome, blooming, pretty woman, since I have been here. —  Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money

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