But Ned Worth was the kind that you can't lie to.

Ned Worth was my friend as well as my patient.

And it suddenly occurred to him that the real worth of any people was their efficiency in giving this flow of force moral and spiritual forms.

Five farthings' worth of meat was his allowance for dinner and supper.

Annie's evil schemes are already too clearly displayed; her mind unable, as Miss Malison's, to comprehend the exalted nature of Mrs. Hamilton's character, looked upon it with detestation; the more so, as feeling she was ever actingshe believed it hypocrisy; that the worth for which even those who visited her not gave her credit, was not her real character, but an artful veil to conceal evil qualities.

Such trifles as the latter circumstance did not disturb her in the least, for though she was only a young woman of four and twenty, a singer and a musician, she had a philosophical mind, and considered that if virtue has nothing to do with the greatness of princes, moral worth need not be a clever lady's-maid's strong point.

Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

For a moment he wondered despairingly why he had been so short-sighted as to choose three unknown quantities in such an important event, leaving to Dan those whose worth was a foregone conclusion.

In literature of narration, whether prose or verse, the dramatic worth of the action related must be the first consideration.

"The worth of this inestimable ring is one shilling and sixpence.

But, if you can do so without prejudice, inquire into the motives that actuate you, and you will soon perceive that you are laboring under a delusion, and that we deceive you; that, everything well considered, you are the dupe of your vanity and of ours; that the worth of the person loved is only an excuse which gives an occasion for love, and is not the real cause.

Nor would the enamour'd Muse neglect to pay To Stanhope's worth the tributary lay, 110 The soul unstain'd, the sense sublime to paint, A people's patron, pride, and ornament, Did not his virtues eternised remain The boasted theme of Pope's immortal strain.

But Worth was too true a son of the army to leave a brooding damsel long alone in the corner.

When the real worth of things is, over all, the measure of their estimation, then is the kingdom of our God and His Christ.

In these circumstances Michelangelo advises his family to "escape into a place of safety, abandoning their household gear and property; for life is far more worth than money."

For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities, an' a' that: The pith o' sense an' pride o' worth Are higher rank than a' that.