From that Cooper Institute meeting Anna received almost one thousand dollars, an incredible amount for a simple speech to her unmercenary spirit, but one which was to be duplicated many times before her career was over. ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (N/A)
"I suppose the advertising business is altruistic and unmercenary?" ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
I am also of opinion that it is greatly to my credit, and a proof of my pure and unmercenary nature, that I did not instantly put myself up to be raffled for, or rush out into the streets and propose marriage to the first lady I met. ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1928)
I am also of the opinion that it is greatly to my credit, and a proof of my pure and unmercenary nature, that I did not instantly put myself up to be raffled for, or rush out into the streets and propose marriage to the first lady I met. ❋ Unknown (1928)
There had been, in particular, an ill-favored dude, called Ver Plank, who had always been hanging around with his tandem and his millions, who had been sacrificed a dozen times by the unmercenary angel to his, ❋ Owen Johnson (1915)
Amanda was only too manifestly pleased to think that she made peasant lovers discontented and hotel porters unmercenary; she let her light shine before men. ❋ Unknown (1906)
And the sunshine of the warm April afternoon, heightened it may be by her determined unmercenary pose, betrayed too the faintest hint of shabbiness in her dress. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Do bring, O unmercenary physicians, unto God your prayers that He may deliver us from temptations and many afflictions and from the terrible and awful eventual torture. ❋ Anonymous (1899)
She dressed quietly; was absolutely unmercenary; her intelligence -- i.e., her intellectual calibre -- was not great. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
I _will_ hold on to the illusion of having found one unmercenary human being, even if she had to be buried in the depths of ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
We have perverted our life by withdrawing ourselves from the example set us by the Lord, the apostles, martyrs, reverend fathers, the unmercenary, and all the saints. ❋ 1829-1909 (1897)
Has a money-loving, covetous, unjust man, hard-hearted to the poor, changed in the depths of his soul, and become unmercenary, just, generous, compassionate — he owes it to the power of the grace of Christ. ❋ 1829-1909 (1897)
Don't hate me, Elma -- I am the most unmercenary of women -- Geoffrey will tell you that I am always getting into debt! ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
A little emblem of true love -- a little ring that symbolised unending and unmercenary affection -- was the cause of our Richard finding his happiness. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
The next afternoon Ravenel, while polishing a ragged line of a new sonnet, reclined by the window overlooking the besieged garden of the unmercenary baron. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
She was all impulse; a shifty piece of unmercenary stratagem occasionally directing it. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
They were venerated as the "anargyroi," the unmercenary physicians, because they decided to stop charging for their services and to heal purely out of love for God. ❋ Judith Acosta (2011)
Most unworldly he was, most unmercenary, and (as somebody has remarked) even to a disease, and, in such a degree as if an organ had been forgotten by ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
