vice's

In the White House, the vice's clout has been both unrivaled and reviled.

A Teachable Moment 2008

As he exits, a wiry civilian, disguised as the Secret Ser vice's notion of an Apache, eases away from a niche in the porte - cochere, and follows Slothrop's cab out the winding dark road to Raoul's party.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

The ideal, at least, of the Southern grandees was to be public servants with local roots, earthy but moralizing, close enough to their neighbors to realize that hypocrisy is vice's tribute to virtue.

Reading the Carter Riddle Wills, Garry 1977

Reply Obj. 1: Opposition between vice and virtue does not depend chiefly on the cause of the vice but on the vice's very species.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Vice jostling virtue in the public places; virtue imitating the fashions set by vice, and buying trinkets or furniture at the sale of vice's effects -- these are social phenomena which the East knows not.

Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876

Those souls which vice's moody mists most blind, 5

Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move? 1875

But if we must grant pleasure something, since we do not find it easy to resist its charms, -- for Plato, with happy inspiration, calls pleasure "vice's bait," because of course men are caught by it as fish by a hook, -- yet, although old age has to abstain from extravagant banquets, it is still capable of enjoying modest festivities.

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero 1874

Carry a scene through in virtue's name and vice's mask

Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Carry a scene through in virtue's name and vice's mask

Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Carry a scene through in virtue's name and vice's mask

Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868