He would now be in the way of earning an honest living.
There are friends among thieves, and comrades among robbers, and even liars have wives, to whom they speak the truth; but Judas laughs at thieves and honest folk alike, although he is himself a clever thief.
I shall cut your ears off if you will slander honest people.
At that time all the honest people went out to sea, and only the cowards and liars remained upon the solid earth.
They said he had stolen from them three denarii--as though Judas were not the most honest man in Israel!
Then you have disturbed my honestsleep in vain; I want no music, Noni.
Bring me a good, honest dog, or beast, and he will howl.
They are not fit to die by the hands of an honest person," said they, while others thoughtfully followed the rapidly disappearing Judas with their eyes.
He knew and he felt sure that such a true, disinterested, and honest friend there never was and never would be.
And you, honest mother, tell me, what wind has made your eyes so red?
Now that my jailer has entered into the spirit of his position this honest man treats me with extreme sternness, not for the sake of the profit but for the sake of the principle.
Well, sir, he has an honest claim agin these United States for damage and raisin' the divil with his farm durin' the Civil War.
Percival he cleaned his glasses, looked hard at Dooley's Pillar, and give me his honest opinion.
I admit it was nine-tenths my fault, but now I call for an honest deck and the hands played above the table.
I incurrige you to keep your hart stout, your faith intack, and hunt up a poker-game sumwheres, becus we honest ain't got the money.
I honestbelieve that grass-juice had a jump or two in it, so darned insijous a man wouldn't notice.
Now my task in this last chapter is a more delightful one than if I were the usual solicitor of fiction, come to inform the poor-but-honest newsboy that he is a royal duke.
There, as nearly as I could, I would live like Robin Hood, Taking down the mean and haughty, Getting plunder from the naughty To reward all honest men Who should seek my outlaw's den.
Honest orthodoxy Cecil respected, but he always assumed that honesty is the result of a spiritual crisis; he could not imagine it as a natural birthright, that might grow heavenward like flowers.
I was honest when I told Carman I was glad it turned out as it did.
You know how rare it is to meet with a husband that is a really honest man.
Still it went on, and in spite of the horrors connected with these revolutionary times there were plenty of quick-witted men ready to speculate and take their chances of making an honest penny.
He found one grand old citadel, but the Italians had been behaving to it like Vandals, or, to be more familiar of speech, like ourhonest old British churchwardens when they distribute whitewash.
I, the writer of these lines, have been a reader for seventy years, and I must frankly confess that I don't know, and my honest belief is that I never shall.
What he does set forth as being a really terrible difficulty is that of obtaining water for an "honest wash.
All Russian officials were corruptible, and the honest men among those who stood nearest to Peter himself could literally be counted on one's fingers.
This honest gentleman has been unfortunate, but not guilty.
You look like an honest young man, but I can't take apprentices, as we used to in former years.
Then you will give that note to this honest young man.
Do you think it is honest to keep him out of his money?
On the contrary, I know that Kit Cruncher is an honest man, and if you prove your claim, he will either pay you the fair value of the place, or give it up to you.
Matt was always honest and straightforward; but he was almost always unfortunate, he failed in business, and left this part of the country discouraged and disheartened.
The old story," said Ingleborough contemptuously, "You can't bear thehonest truth.
Just a bit of nice honest trade--buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.
They've as good a right to 'em as the company, and if I like to do a bit of honest trade I will, in spite of the miserable laws they make.
Didn't our sturdy honest captors take everything away but my knife, which was luckily in my inner belt along with my money?
The day on which we must draw it, has dawned against our will and contrary to our honest endeavours.
Summa summarum: The German Government has taken honest pains during the last week in showing its peace-loving disposition and in seeking a peaceful solution to the crisis.
Liberty implies the right to rise by honest endeavour, but does not exclude the possibility of a wilful surrender to slothful inactivity, e.
People are beginning to treat this vehement and honest poet as if he were a sort of Marcus Aurelius and John the Baptist rolled into one.
My wife Gertrude; that, honest and gay, Laughs when you talk of surrendering, "Nay!
We think there is an occult mystery lurking behind the honest homely phrases.
They werehonest without charm; strong-minded without pose; mighty in conscience, but mean in heart qualities.
Fraud is not unknown side by side with honest dealing.
Yet, public sentiment consigns the murderer of post-natal children to the dungeon or the gallows, while the murderers of ante-natal children are often allowed to pass in society as honest and honorable men and women.
Be sensible and marry a sensible, honest and industrious companion, and happiness through life will be your reward.
Girls, you, who are too poor and too honest to disguise aught in your character, with your sweet soul shining through every act of your lives, beware of the men who smile upon you.
The young woman to play the coquet, and sport with the sincere affections of an honest and devoted young man, is one of the highest crimes that human nature can commit.
Before you can create favorable impressions you must first be honest and sincere and natural, and your conquest will be sure and certain.
A young man, sober, honest and industrious, holding a responsible position or having a business of his own, is a prize that some bright and beautiful young lady would like to draw.
No man is bound to be rich or great--no, nor to be wise--but every man is bound to be honest and virtuous.
An I promised him I'd deal honest wi his childer, an--' Reuben paused painfully.
She had been perfectly honest till now; but she had never let any convention stand in her way.
He had gone into hiding to keep honest people out of their money--that was what it meant.
This, however, was not at all his own honest view of the matter.
John was as honest as the day, and had already learnt much.
No honest man could, thought the lad defiantly, with the rising colour of crude and vehement feeling, when his attention had been once challenged, and he had developed mind enough to know what the challenge meant.
But who could be found, modern knight, honest and disinterested and able enough to take upon his shoulders the difficult defense of the girl's rights?
From the blundering lips of honest Mrs. Clark the story tumbled out, under the judge's expert questioning, exactly as it was.
It was clear enough to him that Mrs. John Clark, honest woman though she appeared to be, could not cope with the situation that must present itself.
Think of penalizing the first honest attempt to understand!
Think of penalizing the first honest attempt to understand the capitalistic class!
As to vices, who can dispute our intemperance, while an honest drunken fellow is a character in a man's praise?
Fools out of favour grudge at knaves in place, And men are alwayshonest in disgrace: The court preferments make men knaves in course: But they which wou'd be in them wou'd be worse.
Shall I speak plain, and, in a nation free, Assume an honest layman's liberty?
Then, as you hope we should your failings hide, An honest jury for our play provide.
Would ye be godly with perpetual strife, Still drudging on with homely Joan, your wife Or take your pleasure in a wicked way, Like honest whoring Harry in the play?
And all this only as a tale to usher in his beloved character, and to shew the excellency of his wit in abusing honest men.
Tis a damned scandal, of thy foes contriving; A jest of that malicious monstrous fame-- The honest layman's faith is still the same.
That church detained the legacy divine; Fanatics cast the pearls of heaven to swine: What, then, have honest thinking men to do, But chuse a mean between the usurping two?
I purr very loud over a good, honest letter that says pretty things to me.
You can't possibly mistake a man who means to be honest for a literary pickpocket.
Our hearts and hands, Our lips in honest Saxon phrases, Cry, God be with him, till he stands His feet among the English daisies!
Johnson Boller, and one saw that his honest rage was rising fast.
