I would no more prey upon her morals than I would the morals of the andirons.

"You are getting me into a bad habit, spoiling my morals in a physical sense," said Smith, addressing us as we sat after supper around our camp-fire; "I find myself taking to the pipe out here, in these old woods, with a relish I never have at home.

There are any number of morals to this.

Aylmer had about the same code of morals as the best of his numerous friends in Bohemia, in clubland and in social London.

I should point all his morals for years to come; and his materialism, his scepticism, would be increased beyond endurance.

Everybody knows you never had any more morals than a tom-cat on the back fence.

In this manner did the patient duke draw an useful moral from everything that he saw; and by the help of this moralising turn, in that life of his, remote from public haunts, he could find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

He endeavored to connect the moral with the religious consciousness, and thus to promote the practical welfare of society.

Both were unscrupulous, arrogant, egotistical and cruel kings; both were religious devotees and endeavored to compensate for a lack of morals by excessive zeal in persecuting heretics, and in promoting what they considered the interests of their church; and both created disaffection and provoked rebellion among their subjects, and undermined the power and authority of the dynasties to which they belonged.

And again I say: that the work is not moral at the foundation.

Act you your part; Imprint just morals on their heart, Impartially their talents scan: Just education forms the man.

Here was a N.C.O., a real good fellow too, who could give an order and point a moral without the use of a blistering oath; a man who was a man, cool under fire, ready for any dangerous venture, cheerful always, never grousing, always generous and open as a soldier should be, never preaching, never openly praying, never asking men to do what he would not do himself.

It will be seen that the Silent Woman, with its rapid action and its unexpected situations, offers an excellent opportunity for the actors; but the reading of the play, as of most of Jonson's comedies, is marred by low intrigues showing a sad state of morals among the upper classes.

And lest her "solid" reader's eyes reject the rambling recital as utterly unworthy the honor of their notice, she is tempted to whittle it down to a moral before saying farewell.

There is almost infinite promise and significance in this gradual victory of the moral over the political, of life over mechanism.

Even in liberal Athens the hemlock was in the last resort at the service of the ancient gods and the ancient morals against the sceptical critic.

He has no great fondness for poetry, and can hardly extract a moral out of Shakespear.

The business of economic theory is not to justify a regime of laissez-faire, still less to show the folly of bringing morals into business.

As for any moral obligation, there would have been nothing moral about the affair.

Under the opposite supposition all responsibility, as I have shown, would be at an end, and the moral like the physical world would be a mere machine, set in motion for the amusement of its manufacturer placed somewhere outside of it.

There was greater looseness of morals throughout the country than has been generally dreamed of.

Martensen's "Christian Ethics" do not ignore God and the Bible as factors in any question of practical morals under discussion.

"Maybe," went on Ruth, "I forgot my morals along with the rest I forgot.

His features were of a refined type, his hair was almost straight; he was always neatly dressed; his manners were irreproachable, and his morals above suspicion.

One of the most clearly expressed and continually reiterated aims of prose fiction, as of other species of writing from time immemorial, was that of conveying to the reader a moral through the agreeable channel of example.