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Example sentences for "good repute"

  • Those things which I did not see, I took great pains to inform myself of, from persons of good repute, both Christians and Indians.

  • Much of the scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute.

  • For if two witnesses, considered of good repute by the Inquisitor, agreed in accusing the prisoner, his fate was at once settled; whether he confessed or not, he was declared a heretic.

  • To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.

  • It was of good repute in its own way, seeing that no man doubted the word or solvency of Heine Brothers; but they did not possess, as bankers, what would in England be considered a large or profitable business.

  • Truly he house of Heine Brothers was of no great importance; but nevertheless it was of good repute.

  • The greatest of all Bulgarian rulers was Ivan AsĂȘn II.

  • All ecclesiastical appointments are subject to the approval of the government.

  • I assure you that I like being at Mannheim, and wish very much to get some appointment there, but it must be one that is honorable and of good repute.

  • But he answered that he could not do this, seeing that old Lizzie was a woman in good repute, and fearing God, as Dom.

  • It has already been noticed that at the stages of economic evolution at which conspicuous leisure is much regarded as a means of good repute, the ideal requires delicate and diminutive bands and feet and a slender waist.

  • In the morning they were visited by Anthemion and Pisias, both men of good repute, and very great friends of Baccho, who was surnamed the Handsome, and also rivals of one another somewhat through their affection for him.

  • In like manner, if a man of good repute tries to force and importune us to something bad, let us tell him that he is acting in an ignoble way, and not as his birth and virtue would warrant.

  • For people are beside themselves with pain and rage if reproached before those with whom they desire to be held in good repute.

  • Good repute is like the cypress: once cut, it never puts forth leaf again.

  • A slight suspicion may destroy a good repute.

  • If you would be in good repute, let not the sun find you in bed.

  • Good repute is better than a golden belt.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain occasion; each fresh; good and faithful servant; good appearance; good business; good color; good company; good counsel; good design; good dish; good fire; good grass; good handful; good housekeeper; good lady; good looks; good mistress; good musician; good painter; good reading; good spirit; good sweet; good view; good wench; good will toward men; goods sold