Still later he declared that he had more negroes than could be employed to advantage on his estate, but was principled against selling any, while hiring them out was almost as bad.
Miss Archer has been heard to say that Marjorie is the highest-principled girl she has ever had in Sanford High.
We know that she is generous and high-principled and truthful.
I never saw one of you high-principled chaps yet that wasn't--until he got rich enough to be something else.
He imagined the high-principled youth becoming the British merchant, and making the name of "Onslow" great and respected in the old arena of all their victories, the city of London.
But true it is that a good-principled person is always ready to stand by his colors.
The character of the Duke of Hamilton presents a favourable specimen of the well-principled and well-intentioned Scotchman, with the acknowledged virtues and obvious defects of the national character.
High-principled Senators and Representatives would take up these petitions and present them with their own endorsement of the case.
Their loyalty was high-principled and self-sacrificing, yet at the same time discriminating.
But there were high-principled men who resisted the domineering monarch.
He didn't seem inclined to come near my end of the dugout, and I was principled agin goin' towards his.
The dog didn't see me, and seemed to be principled agin stoppin' to inquire my whereabouts.
To go down after it was a thing I was principled agin undertaking considerin' the circumstance of that bull moose with his great horns and the onpleasant temper he seemed to be in.
The principled Royalists are certainly not of force to effect these objects by themselves.
We are principled against it in all cases where we feel sure of losing; though in this case we could never settle it, for both composer and librettist are dead.
The prosecutors, of Tom White, seeing that their victim had an unexpected backer, became very righteous and high- principled indeed.
Otherwise, they might have been even more virtuous and high-principled than they were.
That he that isprincipled in love truly conjugial, becomes more and more spiritual; and in proportion as any one is more spiritual, in the same proportion he is more a man (homo).
When this is the case, the least-principled part of the voters attain an undue importance--a truth that has been abundantly illustrated in this question.
And Mary is as sound and as high-principled as her father?
We can have no right to control Miss Bayard's choice," observed my discreet and high-principled mother.
In his sort he returned her love; he was not the kind of man whose affections are apt to wander, perhaps because they were few and easily kept together; perhaps because he was really principled against letting them go astray.
But the Quaker-poor, who are principled against such customs, can of course suffer no moral injury on these accounts.
Mr. Williamson (of North Carolina) said he was principled against slavery; and that he thought slaves an incumbrance to society, instead of increasing its ability to pay taxes.
May they not think our solemn vows and engagements, our rigid resolutions and proceedings, were but all contrived and acted out of policy, and that interest and advantage, and not conscience, principled them?
If affection run in the channel of a duty, it is often muddy, and runneth through our corruptions: liberty in duties is principled with carnal affection and self-love.
Fruits show outwardly what the heart is principled with: show me then thy faith, which abideth in the heart, by thy works in a well spent life.
A Parliament so principled will sink All ancient schools of empire in disgrace.
For who can do righteousness without he be principled so to do?
At any rate, what number of women is ever likely to be found so organized or so principled as to resist the pressure of this tremendous power?
This weak-principled man still retained the position, and was waiting to comply with his agreement.
This high-principled champion of the defrauded, murdered Alice Webster is Pierre's and Paul's uncompromising pursuer.
This high-principled girl, strong for self-sacrifice upon the altar of duty, was intensely human.
She isprincipled against it, and says she will not be rung about the house like a negro.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "principled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
