Ah! would that I could describe the good gentleman in the manner which he deserves; he has long since sunk to his place in a respectable vault, in the aisle of a very respectable church, whilst an exceedingly respectable marble slab against the neighbouring wall tells on a Sunday some eye wandering from its prayer-book that his dust lies below; to secure such respectabilities in death, he passed a most respectable life. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Jordan, you joyfully know that you are upon the very frontier of all accustomed respectabilities. ❋ Unknown (2003)
What can we expect, then, when we have only poor gallant blundering men like Kossuth, Garibaldi, Mazzini, and righteous causes which do not triumph in their hands — men who have holes enough in their armour, God knows, easy to be hit by respectabilities sitting in their lounging chairs, and having large balances at their bankers '? ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
Moreover, my uncle, should he ever discover this after-match of my oriental life, was certainly not the man to be seriously scandalised at it, directly he assured himself that "the respectabilities" had not been violated. ❋ Mario Uchard (N/A)
The Devil at which they threw their inkstands and semi-breves was the _Philistines_, which is the general term amongst German students, artists, poets, etc., for prosaic, narrow, hard, ungenial, commonplace respectabilities. ❋ Various (N/A)
Nature, like her Lord, requires truth in the inward parts, and takes but small care of outward respectabilities that are but the whitewashed graves of inward foulness. ❋ Ellice Hopkins (N/A)
He had wrapped himself in that impenetrable mantle of cold scorn, and thus he watched with a moody air the crowd of umbrella-carrying respectabilities, who hurried on their way without ❋ Various (N/A)
It occurred to me that Julio could find a short ladder and bring it to the place: and I had an idea -- old-fashioned, you see, as usual -- that he would make a kind of chaperon, too, to save a little bit of the respectabilities. ❋ J. Smeaton Chase (N/A)
What can we expect, then, when we have only poor gallant, blundering men like Garibaldi and Mazzini, and righteous causes which do not triumph in their hands; men who have holes enough in their armour, God knows, easy to be hit by respectabilities sitting in their lounge-chairs, and having large balances at their bankers. ❋ George Milligan (N/A)
The emptiness of conventional respectabilities and pieties and the futility of the spasmodic attempts at heroism are obvious enough. ❋ Samuel McChord Crothers (N/A)
The only danger is, that, in some representative districts, the people may be swindled by plausibilities and respectabilities; for when, in political contests, any great villany is contemplated, there are always found some eminently respectable men, with a fixed capital of certain eminently conservative phrases, innocently ready to furnish the wolves of politics with abundant supplies of sheep's clothing. ❋ Various (N/A)
Perhaps no one connected with the editorial staff of the Herald Tribune, which is a home paper resolute for the conventions and respectabilities, was ever in the Old Saloon. ❋ Unknown (1935)
"I used to think," went on Martin, "that it was my family I must escape from to be free; I mean all the conventional ties, the worship of success and the respectabilities that is drummed into you when you're young." ❋ John Dos Passos (1933)
It was distinctly a Caesarian glance, full of deliberate revolt, that I bestowed upon the street called Sloane; that clean, orderly thoroughfare which leads to Knightsbridge, and thence either to the respectabilities of Kensington or the plush of Piccadilly. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Editors and bishops and statesmen and all the rest of their retainers had to believe in the respectabilities, even in the privacy of their clubs -- the people's ears were getting terribly sharp these days! ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
And very respectful indeed were even the most eminent of Lincoln, or Jefferson, respectabilities who sought him out there to ask favors of him. ❋ Unknown (1911)
And, while some broad-minded respectabilities spoke of the affair as an outrage, none of them was disposed to think that any real wrong had been done. ❋ Unknown (1911)
A plainer, duller man than Headley it would have been hard to find, even among the respectabilities of Remsen City. ❋ Unknown (1911)
` ` Of course it's none of my business how people live as long as they keep up the respectabilities, '' pursued Mrs. Belloc. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Its respectabilities, its orthodoxies, he could no longer abide. ❋ Collingwood, W G (1911)
