73 Metaphors for conducting

It is difficult to wade through now, but even The Conduct of the Allies is not easy reading, and yet between Paine and Swift there is a great gulf fixed.

His conduct was a pledge of fidelity that could not be mistaken, and a warm squeeze of the hand assured the youth of his superior's approbation.

This prudent conduct might be the result of reflection; but in a prince like Richard, so much guided by passion, and so little by policy, it was commonly ascribed to a principle still more virtuous and more honourable.

I cannot think that any other attestation is needful for the vindication of the right honourable gentleman, whose conduct is this day to be examined, than the declaration of the noble lord, that there appears no positive evidence against him.

The proclamation went on to speak with kindly warmth of those Italian priests who had sided with the national cause, and declared that such conduct was a sure means of gaining respect for their mission and work.

When I take myself to be ill treated with regard to my behaviour to the merit of other men; my conduct towards you is an argument of my candour that way, as well as that your name and authority will be my protection in it.

In appearance he seemed the mildest and best-looking of the mutineers, but his conduct was the most ferocious of any.

Her conduct and his partial discovery of her character, is the sole cause of his misery.

For the rest her conduct was now most exemplary, she had grown fat, and she appeared to be cured of a cough that had threatened a hereditary malady due to the alcoholic propensities of a long line of progenitors.

You have been lately so very open with me, and appeared to regard me so truly as your friend, that your present conduct is to me not only a riddle, but a painful reflection.

Such conduct is not merely an injury to individual creditors, but it is a wrong to the whole community, from whose liberality they hold most valuable privileges, whose rights they violate, whose business they derange, and the value of whose property they render unstable and insecure.

'Such conduct becomes a man,' means, 'such conduct befits him.'"Hart's Gram., p. 116.

It was impossible that such conduct steadily pursued by the king's own brothers could be any thing but most pernicious to his cause.

No; my conduct shall be exemplary, Mr. Pickering, I added, with affable irony.

All I know is, that she made her debut in society as a lady of elegance, and her debut was all the more marked because, during the life of her husband, her conduct was entirely the contrary.

" "Your former conduct is a good guarantee for your present success, truly," returned Rochester, with a sneer.

It was shown that his conduct had been the reverse of satisfactory; that he refused to obey orders, that he 'cheeked' the carters, that he ran away home for a day or two, and was encouraged in these goings on by the father.

The conduct of the Scots Royals at Falkirk was the only striking exception to what closely approached to the nature of a general rule.

A man's conduct, therefore, is the necessary product of both character and motive.

The integrity of her conduct, and Francesco's sapient conduct of the Government were the admiration of all Italy.

All the adults are well instructed, and all are members of Christian churches in the neighbourhood; and their conduct is becoming their professions.

Waller's conduct in this whole matter was a mixture of cowardice and meanness.

London has very attractive charms to most young people, and it cannot be much wondered at if Mrs. Pilkington should take the only opportunity she was ever likely to have, of gratifying her curiosity: which however proved fatal to her; for though we cannot find, that during this visit to London, her conduct was the least reproachable, yet, upon her return to Ireland, she underwent a violent persecution of tongues.

He seemed to consider that the conduct of business from open windows was an entirely legitimate and obvious method.

* Character is innate, and conduct is merely its manifestation; the occasion for great misdeeds comes seldom; strong counter-motives keep us back; our disposition is revealed to ourselves by our desires, thoughts, emotions, when it remains unknown to others.

73 Metaphors for  conducting