Word: virtuous
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...three long years, Emily, Blunt and his Rev fought a ding-dong struggle, resolved only when Blunt's own daughter pitched into her father with Amazonian fury. Poor Emily emerged still a virtuous girl, but heartbroken. "With my reason and my conscience," she cried to his Rev, "I am obliged to own him a villain . . . [but] my heart cries...
TIME errs in stating that "Mademoiselle" from Armentières was an invention . . . The little French girl who slapped a general's face and thus inspired the famous war song was as virtuous as she was pretty. She was employed at a café early in World War I when Armentières was a resting place for troops . . . Entertainment was organized by a London music-hall actor, "Red" Rowland, and the Canadian songwriter Lieut. Gitz-Rice...
When first this order was ordain'd, my lords, Knights of the garter were of noble birth, Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage, Such as were grown to credit by the wars ; Not fearing death, not shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes...
Pride & Prejudice. In Moji, Japan, after they advised three newly elected beauty queens to be "chaste and virtuous and never easily seduced by men," city officials got hundreds of letters from male citizens, who complained that such advice was "a violation of basic human rights...
...divorce courts, there is bound to be strong resentment against the church that solemnly brands subsequent matings as adulterous. A church that proclaims from the housetops that contraception is always against the law of God will naturally arouse the fierce antagonism of those who practice contraception and deem themselves virtuous when they do. As American culture becomes more secularized and further cut off from ,its Christian roots, we can expect this kind of antagonism to increase . . . framed in political rather than in theological terms, if only because theology has become largely meaningless...