It would be impossible to overstate the services rendered to the cause of decency and honesty by Messrs.
We did our share in making forward strides in the matter of housing the working people of the city with some regard todecency and comfort.
The big bosses rolled in wealth, and the corrupt policemen who ran the force lost all sense ofdecency and justice.
If I wished to accomplish anything for the country, my business was to combine decency and efficiency; to be a thoroughly practical man of high ideals who did his best to reduce those ideals to actual practice.
The outcry against stopping dishonest practices among the very wealthy is precisely similar to the outcry raised against every effort for cleanliness and decency in city government because, forsooth, it will "hurt business.
In the Legislature the problems with which I dealt were mainly problems of honesty and decency and of legislative and administrative efficiency.
The British blood was up; and the British resolution to bet, which successfully defies common decency and common-law from one end of the country to the other, was not to be trifled with.
He was going to the equator to get away from her, but to repudiate the past with some decency of form he must show an affected interest, if he could muster none other, in an occasion that meant so much for her.
If you haven't a home you must make, or at least for decency pretend to, one.
Many good things are dreary--virtue and decency and charity, and perseverance and courage and honour.
And many more Books on other moral Subjects have been compos'd with much Wit and Vivacity in our own and foreign Countries, to expose Vice and Folly, and promote Decency and Sobriety of Manners.
It is hardly thus that we can hope to recall those to decency who, if they are to be recalled at all, must be induced to obey the summons before they have reached the last stage of that misery which I have attempted to describe.
How is the woman to return to decency to whom no decent door is opened?
THERE cannot be a stronger proof of that genuine freedom, which is the boast of this age and country, than the power of discussing and examining, with decency and respect, the limits of the king's prerogative.
One of the Indians replied to him, "You are to know, Mr. Flippant, that we are people of some decency and kindness.
Such was the veil with which public decency concealed vices which general opinion tolerated.
It cultivates habits of cleanliness and decency; and those are little acquainted with the human character who can doubt whether cleanliness and decency are not only great aids to virtue, but virtues themselves.
They still desired to have in their hands the proofs of her guilt; and in order to draw them with decency from the regent, a judicious artifice was employed by Elizabeth.
Murray proceeded afterwards to break, in a more public manner, all terms of decency with her.
The infanta, however, was only shown to her lover in public; the Spanish ideas of decency being so strict, as not to allow of any further intercourse, till the arrival of the dispensation.
But no sooner is the mode of the controversy past, than they are universally discovered to be of so little importance, as scarcely to be mentioned withdecency amidst the ordinary course of human transactions.
I was anxious to return to Fairmead, so that as soon as decency permitted I called on Colonel Carrington, and though I longed to challenge what he had said to Calvert, I contented myself with formally renewing my previous request.
If you'd only had the common decency to remember what happened when you came in.
The commonest utensils, for decency as well as for comfort, were lacking.
Without any fair opportunity of investigating the facts, they had the decency and modesty to pronounce sentence with an assumption of oracular infallibility.
When that monarch had been guilty of some gross breach of decorum and decency with a loose woman, which attracted the notice of the clergy, it was resolved to reprove him for his incontinence and public transgression.
She converses on politics and divinity with all the fury of a partizan and a polemic; she seems impatient of the trammels of her sex; and her conversation frequently goes beyond the bounds of decency and good manners.
Not only are they conscious of their rights, but they have greater respect for the state of decencyand order which is the mark of a proper military establishment than for the insignia of rank.
But if treated with common decency and respect, they will perform like men.
Unkind people said that, like her Imperial namesake, she had won her way to success by strength of will and hardness of heart, and a kind of haughty effrontery that was somehow justified by the extreme decency and dignity of her private life.
French waiters are deft and speedy; they were not deft enough for me; and I had scarce decency to let the man set the wine upon the table or put the butter alongside the bread, before my glass and my mouth were filled.
My case was hard enough; but I had sense enough to perceive, and decency enough to do my duty.
Had he even impregnated them with the utmost wit, which however is not the case, the privilege of laughing himself, or of making others laugh, would have been too dearly purchased at the expense of decency and good manners.
It was certainly inconsistent with decency to admit them at some of the games, as those of wrestling and the Pancratium, in which the combatants fought naked.
The sense of decency was stirred in Kryukov and the blood rushed to his head.
The time had come when common decency required Zina to speak of those at home and of her new life.
