"That same situation is not likely to again arise for a long time, and I believe the rule as it stands is a guarantee to the public of the strict honesty of the world's championship contests.

An artistic conscientiousness which values truth and honesty in every detail, saves her from this too common snare.

And he was so pleasant, hearty, and sincere in his friendliness toward both Peter and old Aunt Becky that Peter, even amid the complete side- tracking and derailing of his mission, decided that it ever he did have occasion to purchase any groceries, he would do his trading at this market ruled by an absolute honesty with, and a complete distrust in, his race.

I contend that a bookseller has a relative honesty towards authors, not like his honesty to the rest of the world.

Let us hope that the old professional pride, and, better still, a love of truth and honesty for their own sake, may yet triumph, and place real engineers high above the dead level to which ignorance and pretence and venality have degraded the profession.

Did he beget in them a reverence for honesty by pilfering all their time and labor?

I amused myself by watching the proceedings of the betting-ring, where there is a good deal more honesty than in many places dignified by the name of "marts.

And she reposed on his very apparent honesty as on a bed.

Honesty at once becomes the worst policy, and a thousand other maxims have to be reformed.

You recollect the quarrel between the Tablet and the Jesuits, over Faber's unlucky honesty about St. Rose of Lima? .

I contend that a bookseller has a relative honesty towards authors, not like his honesty to the rest of the world.

"She gets this leaning to honesty from me.

Nothing, I am persuaded, could have saved me from imprisonment at that time, had I not possessed a high reputation for truth and honesty during my previous sojourn in the colony.

However, pretending that I placed their honesty beyond all doubt, I plodded on; but round a corner, found the outlook so unfamiliar that I determined to ask again.

Where was the mighty difference in honesty between himself and the offender?

He carried the strictest honesty into his calling, which greatly added to his influence.

Aiming to glorify God as our chief end, and to do good unto all men as we have opportunityespecially to the household of faithwe promise in the strength of divine grace to search the Scriptures, conforming heart and life to this standard, in constant opposition to the course of this world, exemplifying godliness and honesty before men all our days.

In the first place, the adherence to honesty on the part of the masters might be exemplary; whereas their actual measure of honesty would perhaps be indicated with sufficient indulgence, if they were described (in the qualified language which Hamlet applies to himself) to be "indifferent honest."

God knows, I am no advocate for Methodism; but for fair statement I am, and most zealouslyeven for the love of logic, putting honesty out of sight.

If the duty of promoting honesty amongst the labouring classes did not exist, that of increasing happiness and piety amongst them would not be the less imperative.

It is a popular notion that honesty among men is rare, but the idea is a mistaken one.

"But nothing," he added, "will so surely kill all business as misrepresentation." Even a gambling book-maker on the race tracks in New York, before such work was forbidden by law, is said to have proudly claimed that absolute justice and honesty toward his customers was essential to his success and had therefore become the rule of his life.

Here is a story of an epoch-making battle of right against wrong, of honesty against corruption, of simplicity and sincerity against deceit, bribery and intrigue.

It is a comment, not so much on Dante, as on the low standard of literary honesty under a government where the press is shackled, where true criticism is forbidden, where the censorship exerts its power over the dead as well as the living, and every word must be accommodated to the fancied needs of a despotism the more exacting from the consciousness of its own decline.

She is human, soured by misfortune, if you like, with an immense stock of bravery and honesty underneath it all.