Respectable Sentence Examples

It sounds like he's a respectable person who likes to keep to his self.

It is simpler and more respectable to omit it.

She had changed into respectable clothes and looked painfully beautiful.

The crowd was respectable although it looked smaller due to the large size of the building.

Yet the opposition gained recruits among all the ablest and most respectable Tuscans.

There is a respectable amount of Afghan literature.

She, curiously, is the kuata or " go-between," even though her services are only employed in the respectable task of arranging marriages.

She established herself as a respectable leader through loyalty, candor, and determination.

The statements as to his parentage and early life are conflicting; but it seems probable that his parents, though poor, were respectable.

Besides being bad philosophy based on fictitious history, Christianity is not respectable.

The collection of trees in the Botanic Garden at Cambridge is also one of respectable proportions.

They dance in public, at fairs and religious festivals, and at private festivities, but, it is said, not in respectable houses.

Whilst it can never (in the absence of any great mineral wealth) develop into a wealthy country, it can at least support its own population; and it would, but for the short-sighted trade policy of Abdur Rahman, certainly have risen to a position of respectable solvency.

But the Hebrew ancestry of the Afghans is more worthy at least of consideration, for a respectable number of intelligent officers, well acquainted with the Afghans, have been strong in their belief of it; and though the customs alleged in proof will not bear the stress laid on them, undoubtedly a prevailing type of the Afghan physiognomy has a character strongly Jewish.

A still more questionable measure of Ibn Hobaira was his ordering the successor of Said Harashi to extort large sums of money from several of the most respectable Khorasanians.

Classicism in the shape of solid, respectable Hummel on the one hand, and Carl Czerny, a trifle flippant, perhaps, and inclined to appeal to the gallery, on the other, these gave the musical parentage of young Liszt.

Of the so-called deists Shaftesbury was probably the most important, as he was certainly the most plausible and the most respectable.

The movement began among the Arab officers, who complained of the preference shown to the officers of Turkish origin; it then expanded into an attack on the privileged position and predominant influence of foreigners, many of whom, it must be confessed, were of a by no means respectable type; finally, it was directed against all Christians, foreign and native.i The government, being too weak to suppress the agitation and disorder, had to make concessions, and each concession produced fresh demands.

In 1786 he published An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity (Dutch translation, Utrecht, 1793), one of the most respectable of the very many replies which were made to the famous 15th and 16th chapters of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Through all changes, of government vernacular instruction in its simplest form has always been given, at least to the children of respectable classes, in every large village.

This led him into the society of those outcasts who were condemned and rejected by the respectable and righteous classes.

The land being appropriated by the conquerors, husbandry, as the most respectable industrial occupation, became the legitimate calling of the Aryan settler, the Vaisya; whilst handicrafts, gradually multiplying with advancing civilization and menial service, were assigned to the subject race.

There are, however, not a few classes of Brahmans who, for various reasons, have become degraded from their high station, and formed separate castes with whom respectable Brahmans refuse to intermarry and consort.

In fact, the respectable Hindu, whilst owning special allegiance to one of the two gods as his ishta devata (favourite deity), will not withhold his tribute of adoration from the other gods of the pantheon.

The Sakta cult is, however, known to be especially prevalent - though apparently not in a very extreme form - amongst members of the very respectable Kayastha or writer caste of Bengal, and as these are largely employed as clerks and accountants in Upper India, there is reason to fear that their vicious practices are gradually being disseminated through them.

Postel, he proceeded to attack Hebrew, and then Arabic; of both he acquired a respectable knowledge, though not the critical mastery which he possessed in Latin and Greek.

Archbishop Neville was a respectable scholar; and he was a considerable benefactor of the university of Oxford and especially of Balliol College.

Those who, as it has been happily put, identify Rabelais with Pantagruel, strive in vain, on any view intellectually consistent or morally respectable, to account for the vast ocean of pure or impure laughter and foolery which surrounds the few solid islets of sense and reason and devotion.

It was indeed represented by a long line of respectable names.

The restitution money was divided among the sufferers by a committee of the most respectable inhabitants.

The elections took place early in May 1871, and the government, to which all the most respectable elements in the country had rallied, obtained a large majority.

Those who wanted a more thorough revolution wrought up the crowd and even respectable citizens wished to have the Removal king among them and amenable to their opinion.

These horrors were enacted by day, in a thoroughfare crowded with "respectable" citizens sheltered from the rain by umbrellas.

It is still not aristocratic, but it is eminently respectable.

I'm not going to join in what appears to be an exercise in making the BNP appear respectable.

I dared not tell him she was someone else's wife as he seemed so respectable.

Only James Grady battled to the end in make the scoreline look slightly more respectable.

The BNP becomes more respectable with every passing election.

In the mid-eighteenth century, the novel was still a young form and not considered wholly respectable.

When the gospel is powerful and when the church is influential, then the world is made respectable.

Before we stopped at Exbourne we got one of our call-change ringers through a pretty respectable quarter peal ringing the treble.

These guidelines can help ensure that a respectable graduation ceremony will take place.

No matter how lonely you might feel, stay respectable.

People have been asking ever since how the penniless man of letters was able to raise so large a sum in the first instance, and how he was able to keep up a respectable establishment afterwards.

In Paris the armed ruffians who had long preyed upon respectable citizens were organized as a revolutionary army, and other revolutionary armies were established in the provinces.

This produced fresh complications, and an increasing desire among the respectable settlers for a competent civil and criminal jurisdiction.

Neither the family nor property was violently attacked; the church and the monarchy still appeafed to most people two respectable and respected institutions.

The next stop was Gresford's impressive Perpendicular parish church, containing a respectable 1912 Hill, where Roger Hill played some chorale preludes.

As a result, our diagram only includes very common logic circuits from the CMOS 4000 family, with quite respectable results.

The democratic opposition that the West likes, the respectable centrist opposition, will not counterpoise itself to the Nationalists.

Let's not dignify the " experts " ' who have been censoring the truth with the respectable label of skeptic.

A monumental folly of the highest order which would have seen any respectable company or trade union chairman vacate his seat.

We are not speaking of the insolence of open and avowed infidelity, but of the heartless indifference of respectable orthodoxy.

I'm as decent and respectable a business fun makeover game man as you are!

I think I hear you say that it is a respectable position to drive an omnibus?

The best bet seems to be an effective land tax, which has a very respectable pedigree.

These are hardly respectable representatives of the chief forms of middle Platonism.

To some extent they have made public spending respectable once more.

Our requirement that the project be academically respectable must be communicated clearly to the client.

But somehow Campion, or his eminently respectable friends, always seem to find themselves suffering at the hands of some less respectable character.

Ireland made a perfectly respectable 263 for 9 to lose the game by 38 runs.

In Dr. Hynek's words " Instead of having UFO a synonym for crackpot and ridicule, let's make it scientifically respectable.

A biting satire on the social aspiration, the play follows two women in their search for respectable husbands.

It also has a respectable annual sunshine total (1500 hours ).

In fact, respectable results are attained regardless of the mother wavelet or the value of its adjustable parameter.

On the trout lake Mark Johnson landed fifteen fish the best a rainbow a very respectable 10lb 8oz using cats whisker.

This was seized upon as a pretext for violent anti-clerical demonstrations all over Italy and for brutal and unprovoked attacks on unoffending priests; at Spezia a church was set on fire and another dismantled, at Marino Cardinal Merry del Val was attacked by a gang of hooligans, and at Rome the violence of the teppisti reached such a pitch as to provoke reaction on the part of all respectable people, and some of the aggressors were very roughly handled.

The vast authority of Cuvier was employed in support of the traditionally respectable hypotheses of special creation and of catastrophism; and the wild speculations of the Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe were held to be models of sound scientific thinking, while the really much more sober and philosophical hypotheses of the Hydrogeologie were scouted.

It has been attributed to Beza, Hotman, Casaubon and Duplessis-Mornay, by divers writers on various grounds - to the last-named on the very respectable authority of Grotius.

His unpopularity in the Assembly was extreme, yet he insisted on speaking on the question of the king's trial, declared it unfair to accuse Louis for anything anterior to his acceptance of the constitution, and though implacable towards the king, as the one man who must die for the people's good, he would not allow Malesherbes, the king's counsel, to be attacked in his paper, and speaks of him as a "sage et respectable vieillard."

Unhappily the insolence which, while it was defensive, was pardonable, and in some sense respectable, accompanied him into societies where he was treated with courtesy and kindness.

His father, whose name also was William, began life as an apprentice to a fitter, in which service he obtained the freedom of Newcastle, becoming a member of the gild of Hoastmen (coal-fitters); later in life he became a principal in the business, and attained a respectable position as a merchant in Newcastle, accumulating property worth nearly £ 20,000.

No one was safe from these zealous and too often credulous defenders of the established order; and a few indiscreet words spoken in a coffee house were enough to bring imprisonment and ruin, as in the case of John Frost, a respectable attorney, condemned for sedition in March 1793.

At the request of some respectable inhabitants of this town I went thither.

The intention is to appoint respectable married tradesmen to these positions.

He made the most astonishing efforts in acquiring learning, which brought him under the notice of many respectable gentlemen.

Frequently, the main culprits are those whom many would regard as respectable, upright citizens.

It is at present attended by a respectable congregation.

In Dr. Hynek 's words Instead of having UFO a synonym for crackpot and ridicule, let 's make it scientifically respectable.

Already, supposedly respectable Christian governments are torturing their enemies in secret.

I 'm not going to join in what appears to be an exercise in making the BNP appear respectable.

I dared not tell him she was someone else 's wife as he seemed so respectable.

He saw a very pretty, respectable looking, well spoken girl, with dark brown wavy hair and sallow skin.

Is their supposedly respectable mother-in-law actually off on shoplifting sprees?

Despite the late night last night, I actually managed to raise my sorry ass out of bed at a respectable hour.

After totting up the scores I came last with a quite respectable 24 points.

It also has a respectable annual sunshine total (1500 hours).

If you buy from a respectable brand such as Dewalt, Ryobi, and Craftsman, you are more likely to find a tabletop that features precise measurements.

Check out your lawyer on a ratings website such as the Martindale Hubbell, which has a reputation for using a respectable ratings system.

The collision of respectable social class mixed with adolescent angst gives the "soft punk" look that emo makeup is becoming famous for.

A respectable top (such as a fancy tank or perhaps a nice sweater) and cute bottom (such as an A-line skirt or mini-skirt) can be special enough for the night, but can be broken up and worn in your daily wardrobe.

In order to prepare for shopping yourself to agencies, get headshots done by a respectable company.

On the whole, your attire over the weekend should be respectable and radiate a theme of optimism.

While The Apprentice still earns respectable ratings, the show has seen a sharp drop in viewers, with the current season earning the lowest numbers yet.

The Mummy Returns earned $433 million and The Scorpion King, while not as successful, still earned a respectable $165 million worldwide.

While most of the highest-paid actors are men, Jolie pulls in a respectable $14 million.

The smallest ship, the Zenith, is still a respectable size with room for more than 1,300 passengers.

The costume shocked audiences, but was allowed by censors since it had originated on ostensibly respectable stages in Europe, such as the Gaiety in London and the Folies Bergère in Paris.

These discount chains offer low prices on instruments respectable enough for any beginner.

Tweed has traditionally made a lot of sense in such an environment - it looks respectable and stays in fashion for years, so that a poor academic could purchase one jacket and wear it for a long time.

Members can post additional pictures, construct polls to prompt discussion and generally talk about anything they like, within respectable guidelines.

The lineup of titles from both first and third party developers was respectable, and now that companies are getting the Wii-groove, more and better games are finding their way to store shelves.

To buy Wii Fit, you just need to go to any respectable video game retailer.

Borrowing games from friends means to return them after a respectable time, which is after beating the game or a short amount of time.

While not achieving cloud-like status like Madden or Halo, Soul Calibur has gained a respectable community of gamers with outstanding graphics, deep characters and storylines, and unique modes of play.

The DS now has a respectable library of games and will soon be the home to Nintendo's first online service, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

A very respectable income can be made designing video games, but you'll want to do your research before jumping into this line of work.

The best way to learn about the basics of video game design is through a respectable design school.

Backed by one of the largest budgets of any company in the world, Microsoft pushed the Xbox long and hard and won respectable sales.

Whatever you do, however, be sure to shop from a respectable online store.

This Sonoma County merlot received a very respectable rating of 88 points from Wine Enthusiast.

Alternatively, you can check out some of the more respectable stores on the internet (keep a close eye on shipping charges and the like), or to score a real bargain, have a look at eBay.

It is best to stick with respectable websites that you can trust.

It is possible, however, to still use funky hair colors without compromising a respectable and conservative appearance when needed.

If you still don't have enough to put together a respectable wardrobe, there are other places where you can find a bargain on maternity clothes.

They might look younger, but a respectable modeling agency does not want to court any problems or false perceptions.

It was first made respectable by Sports Illustrated magazine and never looked back.

It is better to provide a respectable dance than to drive their dating activities underground.

Given this, the most risky adventure involved in a respectable teen dance is what happens before and after the actual event.

While magazines and newspapers still provide many opportunities for writers to earn a respectable living, it's important to realize that there are plenty of other job opportunities available as well.

You may even want to consider a paid horoscope from a respectable local astrologer or look into your Chinese lucky numbers.

Priced at a respectable $450 (at print time of May 2011), the Acer AS5736Z-4427 is the ideal laptop for individuals who desire a portable computer with just the standard nuts and bolts.

With its long battery life and more than respectable power and memory, the HP Compaq 6730b is the perfect laptop for business travelers or those who need to stay connected while on the go.

Place your mat a respectable distance from your neighbor.

Manduka mats do a respectable job of keeping moisture away, but they are not 100 percent absorbent.

Despite the reputation of hybrids for sacrificing towing power for fuel efficiency, the Tahoe Hybrid boasts a respectable 6,200 pound towing capacity.

Not only do you want to have a good working relationship with your team, but you also want to be known as a respectable squad among your division.

Keep the volume level at a respectable setting to prevent hearing damage, avoid offending other exercisers with songs they don't appreciate, and stay safe by being aware of other noises, such as traffic or warning signals.

Coupled with a sensible, non-starvation diet, this weekly routine should bring about a respectable set of male abs over time.

They were still something no "respectable" girl dared wear.

True, some "nice" girls like to spice up a perfectly respectable outfit with fishnets, but they're still often seen as mostly naughty and even raunchy in some pairings and colors.

Betsey Johnson carries wide-side lace thongs, so that your underwear looks more respectable in the front, but daring in the back.

St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, has a very respectable musical pedigree, having toured with Arcade Fire and John Vanderslice and collaborated with Polyphonic Spree.

Her father got her into the studio to record a self titled debut album in 1982, which rose to a respectable number nine on the Billboard Charts.

The first single for the album, Like a Boy, failed to make the splash her previous released had, but it reached a respectable number 19 on the charts.

He was more famed for his basketball skills in high school but had a respectable football career as well.

Learning and understanding this conduct will not only allow you to gain a respectable reputation as a blogger, but in the long run, it can help increase the amount of traffic you get to your site.

Just because you find a story in what you think in a respectable publication doesn’t mean it’s true. It could be fake news.

He was, according to his enemies, the son of an apothecary, his father being in fact a doctor of medicine of respectable family, who kept a small drug store as part of the necessary outfit of a country practitioner.

So eminently respectable a person as John Evelyn thought no harm in bowling for stakes, and once played at the Durdans, near Epsom, for £io, winning match and money, as he triumphantly notes in his Diary for the 14th of August 1657.

The orphans are boarded in the homes of respectable poor people, who thus also benefit by the society.

No sooner had President Juarez Celman come into power towards the close of 1886, than the respectable portion of the community began to feel alarmed at the methods practised by the new president in his conduct of public affairs.

At the conclave Francesco, Todeschini-Piccolomini was elected as Pius III., and he showed every disposition to be peaceful and respectable, but he was old, and in bad health.

The success of Edwards's very respectable work seems to have provoked competition, and in 1765, at the instigation of Buffon, the younger d'Aubenton began the publication known as the Planches enlumineez d'histoire naturelle, which appearing in forty-two parts was not completed till 1780, when the plates' it contained reached the number of 1008 - all coloured, as its title intimates, and nearly all representing birds.

Of the text it may be said that it is respectable, but no more.

Moreover, Dr Cornay's, scheme was not given to the world with any of those adjuncts that not merely please the eye but are in many cases necessary, for, though on a subject which required for its proper comprehension a series of plates, it made even its final appearance unadorned by a single explanatory figure, and in a journal, respectable and wellknown indeed, but one not of the highest scientific rank.

Hence it became manifest that a very respectable classification can be found in which characters drawn from these bones play a rather important part.

He accelerated the process of substituting Normans for Englishmen in all preferments of importance; and although his nominees were usually respectable, it cannot be said that all of them were better than the men whom they superseded.

His wife was the widow of Colonel Benjamin Rolfe, and the daughter of Timothy Walker, "a highly respectable minister, and one of the first settlers at Rumford," now called Concord, in New Hampshire.

He was nevertheless a man of respectable abilities, of an irreproachable private character, and a good speaker.

An important official of the second rank (spectabilis, " respectable" as contrasted with those of highest rank who were "illustrious") was the count of the East, who appears to have had the control of a department in which 600 officials were engaged.

Nicholas Zebrzydowski, a follower of the chancellor Zamoyski, was one of the wealthiest and most respectable magnates in Poland.

He was crowned, as Augustus II., on the 15th of September 1697, and his first act was to expel from the country the prince of Conti, the elect of a respectable minority, directed by the cardinal primate Michal Radziejowski (1645-1705), whom Augustus II.

It was convenient, too, to profess Lutheran sympathies, for Lutheranism was now an established, monarchical and comparatively respectable religion, very different from the Calvinism against which monarchs directed the Counter-reformation from political motives.

For the extremely exiguous proportions of some chasubles actually in use, which have been robbed of all the beauty of form they ever possessed, less respectable motives have sometimes been responsible, viz.

At the same time the fears of the more sober and respectable citizens were allayed by Otho's liberal professions of his intention to govern equitably, and by his judicious clemency towards Marius Celsus, consul-designate, a devoted adherent of Galba.

Nevertheless, in most states the bench is respectable in point of character, while in some it is occasionally adorned by men of the highest eminence.

He was simply a fair representative of the Italian piety of his day - amiable, ascetic in his personal habits, indefatigable in many forms of activity, and of more than respectable abilities; though the emotional side of his character had the predominance over his intellect.

He was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practised law, first at Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), and then at Cincinnati, where he won a very respectable standing, and in1858-1861served as city solioitor.

The mere fact that he was able to attract to himself so considerable a body of respectable followers, including such men as Ellwood, Barclay, Penington and Penn, is sufficient to prove that he possessed in a very eminent degree the power of conviction, persuasion, and moral ascendancy; while of his personal uprightness, single-mindedness and sincerity there can be no question.

Orphans of respectable parents have a home at Birmingham, and the reformatory school has done splendid service for lads who have committed a first offence.

By diplomacy, which, although he was a capable and brave soldier, he preferred to war, he succeeded in freeing his country, and converting it from a ruined and divided land into a respectable independent power of the second rank, and, after Venice, the best-governed state in Italy.

A heaven of quarrelling divinities cannot inspire a reasonable worship. These gods are not even respectable; how can they be adorable ?

The respectable mediocrity of Chapelain might misapprehend him; the lesser geniuses of Scudery and Mairet might feel alarm at his advent; the envious Claverets and D'Aubignacs might snarl and scribble.

The aged William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, by far the most important and respectable personage who had adhered to Johns Henry!!!.

Few men, if any, have ever acquired a settled mental habit of surveying human affairs broadly, of watching the play of passion, interest, circumstance, in all its comprehensiveness, and of applying the instruments of general conceptions and wide principles to its interpretation with respectable constancy, unless they have at some early period of their manhood resolved the greater problems of society in independence and isolation.

When the effort to restrain feeling is exhibited in a degree which surprises as well as pleases, it excites admiration as a virtue or excellence; such excellences Adam Smith quaintly calls the " awful and respectable," contrasting them with the " amiable virtues " which consist in the opposite effort to sympathize, when exhibited in a remarkable degree.

Wolfe Tone, who a few months before had patronizingly described him to Talleyrand as "a respectable old man whose patriotism has been known for thirty years," was now disgusted by the lying braggadocio with which Tandy persuaded the French authorities that he was a personage of great wealth and influence in Ireland, at whose appearance 30,000 men would rise in arms. Tandy was not, however, lacking in courage.

Sagasta made no secret of the fact that it was his intention to alter the laws and the constitution of the monarchy so as to make them very much resemble the constitution of the Revolution of 1868, but he undertook to carry out his reform policy by stages, and without making too many concessions to radicalism and democracy, so that Canovas and his Conservative and Catholic followers might bow to the fiecessities of modern times after a respectable show of criticism and resistance.

Tattoo shops are far more professional and respectable in the 21st Century.

The Cami Secret is essentially a piece of fabric, typically outfitted with a lace trim, that converts your super low nighttime clubbing shirts into respectable work fare.

Jarrett's offers a respectable and reasonably priced wine list, including several choices by the glass.

It does not seem to have been the author's original intention to publish any letterpress to this enormous work, but to let the plates tell their own story, though finally, with the assistance, as is now known, of William Macgillivray, a text, on the whole more than respectable, was produced in five large Ma egil- octavos under the title of Ornithological Biography, of liyr ay.

In the same spirit he investigated the generation of eels, which were at that time supposed, not only by the ignorant vulgar, but by "respectable and learned men," to be produced from dew without the ordinary process of generation.

The cultivation of the vine in Saxony is respectable for its antiquity, though the yield is insignificant.

But in 1681 Gerard Blasius had brought out at Amsterdam an Anatome Animalium, containing the results of all the dissections of animals that he could find; and the second part of this book, treating of Volatilia, makes a respectable show of more than one hundred and twenty closely-printed quarto pages, though nearly two-thirds is devoted to a treatise De Ovo et Pullo, containing among other things a reprint of Harvey's researches, and the scientific rank of the whole book may be inferred from bats being still classed with birds.

The following year Ranzani of Bologna, in his Elementi di zoologia - a very respectable compilation - came to treat of birds, and then followed to some extent the plan of De Blainville and Merrem (concerning which much more has to be said by and by), placing the Struthious birds in an Order by themselves.

Grant was the best horseman of his class, and took a respectable place in mathematics, but at his graduation in 1843 he only ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine.

Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise, is a novel written in letters describing the loves of a man of low position and a girl of rank, her subsequent marriage to a respectable freethinker of her own station, the mental agonies of her lover, and the partial appeasing of the distresses of the lovers by the influence of noble sentiment and the good offices of a philanthropic Englishman.

If all their conversations in the three months he had been coming to the diner were put together, it was doubtful that they would make a respectable paragraph.

Here he met a certain Olympe Dunoyer ("Pimpette"), a girl apparently of respectable character and not bad connexions, but a Protestant, penniless, and daughter of a literary lady whose literary reputation was not spotless.

However, he was pleased to keep up a fairly respectable pace, at least a few notches above the embarrassing level.

His power was reduced in the 6th century, when he was deprived of his authority over the Orient diocese, and became civil governor of Syria Prima, retaining his "respectable" rank.

As in France, however, there are some Italian conti whose titles are respectable, and even illustrious, from their historic associations.

In the absence of these more respectable elements, the government fell into the hands of a gang of military adventurers and unscrupulous politicians, whose only object was to exploit the national resources for their own benefit.

Estimates, based on a census of the tax-paying peasantry in the years 1494 and 1495, give five millions of inhabitants, a very respectable number, which explains fully the predominant position of Hungary in the east of Europe at that epoch.

But the desire to discharge obligations incurred is no doubt respectable in itself, and Villehardouin, as one of the actual negotiators of the bargain, must have felt it with peculiar strength.

From this state of decay, however, it was raised, in the second half of the, 8th century, by the unwearied exertions of Archbishop Richard Robinson, 1st Lord Rokeby (1709-1794), which, seconded by similar devotion on the part of succeeding archbishops of the Beresford family, notably Archbishop Lord John George Beresford (1773-1862), made of Armagh one of the best built and most respectable towns in the country.

Next to the Slav races in importance are the Rumanians (Vlachs), who are in an immense majority in ten of the eastern and south-eastern counties (90.2% in Fogaras), in eight others form from 30 to 60% of the population, and in two (Maramaros and Torontal) a respectable minority.'

It also meets in different countries, but it differs from the Institute in the number of its members being unlimited and in all respectable persons being eligible for membership. A report is published after each meeting.

That night they slept under the stars - Bordeaux a respectable distance from her, but close enough to assist if anything went wrong in the night.

Under the patronage of that admiral, he arrived at Rio de Janeiro in 1558 with a train of numerous and respectable colonists.

He treated his most respectable supporters with base ingratitude, reserved his favour for unscrupulous adventurers, and gave a free rein to the licence of his mercenaries.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor--poor farmers.

Chesterfield's " respectable Hottentot," now identified with George, Lord Lyttelton, was long supposed, though on slender grounds, to be a portrait of Johnson.

It was not entirely a bed of roses, for the "respectable Emily's" temper was violent, and after a time she sought lovers who were not so much des cerebraux as Voltaire.