35 adjectives to describe reputes

My father's ill-repute with the Government would tell heavily in my disfavour, and it was beyond doubt that I had assaulted a dragoon.

It was the time of the carnival, and on the following day Bizanoswhich has an evil repute for bad egg-throwing on festive occasionswas to be the scene of the mumming.

But heretofore this Animal was in better repute: Kings and princes did not disdain the best so much as mere tradesman do in our time.

A rumor, which Davenant always countenanced, alleged that William Shakspeare, a poet of some considerable repute in those times, being in the habit of passing between Stratford-on-the-Avon and London, was wont to bait and often lodge at this Oxford hostelry.

In a tavern of foul repute three men were lapping gin.

The faculties of Berlin, Munich, and Würzburg are in especial repute,Vienna also affording many advantages.

Ff 5, he is mentioned in the same way, without any reference to his literary repute or performances.

Because with negroes, as with white persons, two thirds of humor is in the reputation, and Jim Pink was of prodigious repute.

His genius, displaying the practical bent of his English mind, turning with weariness from the endless verbal discussions of the Nominalists and Realists, and recognizing the impossibility of solving the questions which divided the schools of Europe into two hostile camps, led him to the study of branches of knowledge that were held in little repute.

The sacred associations attached to many plants have invested them, at all times, with a scientific repute in the healing art, instances of which may be traced up to a very early period.

It is in evidence that Ninon's father was a gentleman of Touraine and connected, through his wife, with the family of Abra de Raconis, a race of no mean repute in the Orleanois, and that he was an accomplished gentleman occupying a high position in society.

To others these are simply ancient gray walls; to me they represent the honor, the stainless repute, the unshadowed dignity of my race.

* MARRIAGES IN CHINA Are effected through the assistance of go-betweens, who enjoy, however, a very different repute from those of Europe, inasmuch as, among the former, the employ is of the most honourable character.

He is what we would call a popular rather than a scientific writer, and, since we think somewhat lightly of such when they write on what we consider scientific subjects, we are too apt to transfer their light repute to an author who wrote popularly at a time when this treatment was best adapted to his audience, his aims, and the material at his command.

Ed. 1697.] Arriving in Spain a foreign scholar of modest repute, and dependent on the protection of his patron, the Count of Tendilla, Peter Martyr had risen in royal favour, until he came to occupy honourable positions in the State and numerous benefices in the Church.

The trying climate, also, gave Africa odious repute and delayed for centuries the study and utilization of the continent.

Are the archives of the steel yard, in succeeding reigns (if haply they survive the fury of our envious enemies) showing that we flourished in prime repute, as merchants, down to the period of the commonwealth, nothing?

Now, suppose there were in Calcutta an Indian lawyer of large practice and great experience in his professiona man of unstained professional and personal repute, in close touch with European society, and much respected, and the actual holder of important legal office.

They held him in slight repute, regarding him as a mere private citizen.

For among these pictures were a number of drawings by men long since well known, and of steady repute among the dealers or in the auctions, especially of Birmingham and the northern towns.

G. B. This Note, as well as all the others, will by-and-by be amply illustrated by citations from authors of sufficient repute to give it some value as a grammatical principle: but one cannot hope such language as is, in reality, incorrigibly bad, will always appear so to the generality of readers.

If a man cherish his wealth to sound ends, having a sufficiency of goods and adding thereto fair repute, let him not seek to become a god.

It is meet that thou forthwith instruct in that barbarous dialect some matron of unblemished repute and devout aspirations; no mere ignorant devotee, however, but a woman of the world, whose prudence and experience may preserve the holy man from the pitfalls set for him by the unprincipled.

No one outside the chief actors of the drama and M. le Juge d'Instruction ever knew the true history of how a dashing young cavalry officer came to be assaulted and left to starve for three days in the humble apartment of an attorney-at-law of undisputed repute.

Now, suppose there were in Calcutta an Indian lawyer of large practice and great experience in his professiona man of unstained professional and personal repute, in close touch with European society, and much respected, and the actual holder of important legal office.

35 adjectives to describe  reputes