The insolent speaker who had provoked Lady Trevanion into speech had sneered at her as a woman, and Lady Trevanion, a magnificent creature in her velvet and pearls, rose to her feet, amid hushed and dramatic silence, and said, "The atrocious crime of being a woman which the honourable member has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall attempt neither to palliate nor deny, but shall content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their sex and no
He wore as few clothes as decency permitted and had only the pretence of a hat.
Her replies were frosty, and as few as decency required.
"Well, there's such a thing as decency, isn't there?
" As Anne was afterwards to learn, Miss Cornelia was the only neighbor who troubled herself much about the decency of the young Proctors.
But I'd enough decency not to let him see it.
I expect my surveyor from Brockham with his report in the morning; and afterwards I cannot in decency fail attending the club.
"It would have been delightful," she said, faintly smiling at Briggs—she could not in decency not smile, at least a little, but even a little betrayed the dimple, and Briggs's eyes became more fixed than ever—"I'm only wondering if there is room.
It's barest decency that he should have some of the fun out of my nest-egg.
Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs.
" "Why expect decency from her?
If Valancy would return to home and decency while public opinion was under its influence all might yet be well.
Kennedy: Won't you please clothe your horses for DECENCY.
In one letter she wrote: 'I believe that decency and closure can be achieved through money.
In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of human spirit.
We began the 20th century with a choice, to harness the Industrial Revolution to our values of free enterprise, conservation, and human decency.
The judge said it perfectly when he asked them, "Where's your sense of decency?
You do not have to be cruel, but you do owe him the decency of being open about why you feel it did not work.
The instinct has often been to conflate political decency and economic efficiency because this is what has been done for such a long time.
The savages who rule our watan don't care about human decency.
