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Example sentences for "good character"

  • The position of assistants should be open to all persons whose credentials previously received, as to good character, proficiency in all the subjects taught in this class of schools, and required for the place, are satisfactory.

  • To be admitted to the examination the candidate must bring a certificate of good character, that he is over 14 and under 40 years of age.

  • Having concluded his address by a strong appeal to the jury upon the probabilities of the case, a number of witnesses were called, who spoke to the prisoner's good character.

  • Turner and Ludlam were both men of good character up to the time of their becoming parties to the transactions which cost them their lives.

  • A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of the ill luck that fools are dreaming of.

  • No pupil was admitted without a testimonial of good character.

  • The Queen sent a good character of Miss Nightingale to the Minister in advance.

  • Thou wilt therefore do well to choose out and send to me men of a good character, who are now elders in age, and six in number out of every tribe.

  • He was a man happy in other respects also, but particularly in his children, who were of a good character.

  • Richard Nichols was a man in the middle age of life, of a grave and civil deportment, of good character, and who was a barber and peruke-maker.

  • I'll put you in a way to bring off the most valuable things in the house, and yet get a good character, and be trusted and valued by the family for having robbed them.

  • He will be rich enough if he has bodily strength, a good character, and family affection.

  • The milk may be good and the nurse bad; a good character is as necessary as a good constitution.

  • If I could see you trying to form a good character, I should care very little what sort of garments you wore.

  • As he had nothing to recommend him but fine scholarship, exemplary deportment, and a good character, in school and out, he was a boy of little consequence in the eyes of Oscar.

  • The certificate must say that you are a boy of good character, and that your teacher believes you are qualified for admission to the High School," continued the master.

  • On one occasion, a clerk was detected in purloining money; but it was all hushed up, and when Mr. May dismissed him, he gave him a certificate of good character.

  • But the comparatively light punishment of dismissing him with a good character, will prove a salutary check upon him.

  • But, it is one thing to bear with a fault, and encourage a failing brother man to better courses, and another to give an individual whom we know to be dishonest, a certificate of good character.

  • You feel unwilling to keep a young man about you, because he has betrayed your trust, and yet, out of kind feelings, you give him a good character, and enable him to get a situation where he may seriously wrong an unsuspecting man.

  • My Dear Ann: This will be handed you by Gilbert Guy, a servant of good character, who will fill the departments at Montgomery Hall, formerly filled by George Martin, and better.

  • Now of what avail will a good character be without health to apply its forces to the work of life?

  • If we have no right to cultivate a bad character, we have no right to abuse the only means by which a good character can be of use to the world.

  • It is useless to talk, and preach, and write about the value of a good character unless we couple it with an equally earnest lesson about the value of health.

  • So it is with a good character in a fragile, broken-down body.

  • Moral experience--the actual possession and exercise of good character--is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.

  • To this family was now added his new footman, William Wilson, whom he had taken with a good character out of a sober family.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good character" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    directly after; good advantage; good behavior; good counsel; good green; good international; good investment; good judge; good knowledge; good land; good luck; good men; good money; good nurse; good quality; good repair; good seed; good specimen; good start; good test; good thoughts; good view; good voyage; good working; rare occasions; will pour