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Sentences starting with honest

Honest Whigs (and very nearly all of them are honest) would not quietly abide such enormities. [7]
Honest Moses Hatch pursued his courting untroubled, and never knew that he had a rival. [9]
Honest Jack Pearce, one of the few good seamen we had aboard, was rubbing down one of the nines beside me. [9]
Honest Governor Eden had the misfortune to see the justice of our side, and was driven into a seventh state by his attempts to square his conscience. [9]
Honest Jock Hallowell built that second meeting-house--was, indeed, still building it at the time of which we write. [9]
Honest Captain Lige Breast, who seemed to have taken a fancy to him, bandied him on his lack of courage with humor that was a little rough. [9]
Honest Captain Timothy and his Stark heroes, Aunt Lucy and her memories, have long gone to rest. [9]
Honest injun, you ain't a ghost? [5]
Honest Kit! [12]

Sentences ending with honest

I wish, now, you'd waked up when I kissed you--I do, honest. [5]
And again, there was the government official, intrusted with public money, which, in those days, implied that he was supposed to be honest. [6]
She was wont to entertain Ephraim on the days when his hands failed him, when he sat sunning himself before his door; and she knew that he was honest. [9]
He said that Thomas Leffingwell was constitutionally honest. [9]
Citizens said that their largest spiders could not more than spread their legs over an ordinary saucer, and that they had always been considered honest. [5]
Thee wanted help, thee said; and if a word of mine could help thee now and then, should I withhold it, so long as I thought thee honest? [11]
I'd go on the other tack: don't be too honest. [11]
The citizen was the culprit to start with, just as he is the culprit now, because he does not take sufficient interest in his government to make it honest. [9]
I don't say that Mr. Dryfoos's good-fortune is not honest. [8]
I was not so honest in former days as I am now, but I have always been reasonably honest. [5]

Short sentences using honest

But--shall I be honest? [11]
It's all quite honest, too. [11]
Now that's the honest truth. [11]
Well, I am honest still. [11]
I here give honest specimens. [5]
He was an honest man. [4]
Thou art an honest man. [11]
Liddall was an honest man. [11]
Wahn't she honest? [9]
They are honest. [9]

Sentences containing honest two or more times

Mr. Redbrook's speech, vehement and honest, helps a little; people listen to an honest and forceful man, however he may lack technical knowledge, but the majority of the replies are mere incoherent denunciations of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
The story of the reason of this liberality is pathetically interesting, and shows the sort of pickle that an honest man may get into who undertakes to do an honest job of work for Uncle Sam. [5]
The grip of the honest hand, quite, and the clinch of an honest waist? [11]
A perfectly honest man--an absolutely honest and honorable man-- and yet without doubt the profoundest master of dissimulation the world has ever seen. [5]
He's honest, you know, quite honest. [12]
Although eminently human, it was not the fact that honest men had asked him to be their governor which uplifted him,--but that they believed him to be as honest as themselves. [9]
Each person in it is honest in one or several ways, but no member of it is honest in all the ways required by--by what? [5]
I've been perfectly honest with myself, and I've been honest with Mr. Beaton. [8]
Oh, that those halcyon days of the little wars would come again, when a captain could ride out almost any time at the held of his band of mercenaries and see honest fighting and divide honest spoils! [9]
Ye shall be fed, and fuddled too ye shall be an' ye will; for honest drink which sends to honest sleep hurts no man. [11]

More example sentences with the word honest in them

And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
He was a young Irishman, slender, tall, lithe, honest, truthful, and he never changed in all his life. [5]
All that is young and honest is crushed! [2]
Honest, now, do you live in a scow, or is it a lie? [5]
I thank Heaven you are big and honest and clumsy and--" "And what, Dorothy? [9]
This should bring you a barony,--Sir John," my lord added, half graciously, half satirically; for the honest truth of this man's nature vexed him. [11]
This gentleman has written a volume of Essays, in which, among much that is dreamy and fanciful (if he will pardon me for saying so), there is much more that is true and manly, honest and bold. [6]
I think it would be more honest and straightforward to take his name with the money. [4]
An honest, ignorant woman, she could not have passed an examination in the youngest class. [6]
Kit's mother, poor woman, is waiting at the grate below stairs, accompanied by Barbara's mother (who, honest soul! [12]
He realised that within one life a man may still live several lives, each loyal and honest after its kind. [11]
I am honest with you now," he broke in. [11]
She now listened with eager interest, sometimes completing Hermon's acknowledgments by an explanatory or propitiating word, as the leeches subjected him to a rigid examination, but the latter felt that his statements were not to serve curiosity, but an honest desire to aid him. [10]
We do, however, wish to know what are the convictions of any such persons in matters of highest interest about which there is so much honest difference of opinion in this age of deep and anxious and devout religious scepticism. [6]
He was a wise and humane judge, and he clearly did his honest best and fairest,--according to his lights. [5]
It was Kate Wimper, who, before that, had waylaid the one man for whom she herself had ever cared, and drawn him from her side by such attractions as she herself would keep for an honest wife, if such she ever chanced to be. [11]
I hope he will carry that faculty of an honest laugh with him wherever he goes,--why shouldn't he? [6]
And now the whole nation--pulpit and all --will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. [5]
There were others who had climbed to success in their own way, some by happy accident, some by a force which disregarded anything in their way, and some by sheer honest rough merit, through which the soul of the true pioneer shone. [11]
But honest Appenzelder, who frankly contradicted everything opposed to the truth, would not let this statement pass. [10]
No honest opposition, while it might pain him, would produce a lasting alienation of feeling between him and the opponent. [7]
And she knew when she stepped in there, for her cool, reasoning mind was honest, that it was the thought of him that drew her to the place, and that going there was a sentimental indulgence. [4]
Berenike must know what he thought of Caesar's suit, and seeing her wholesome and honest hatred, he had sworn to himself that he would snatch his sister from the hands of the tyrant, if it were to lead him to the most agonizing death. [10]
If only they were less honest in a world of rogues, poor moles! [11]
Of what avail were all his ability and the most honest good-will if no opportunity offered for his executing his work in noble materials? [10]
His honest eyes were alight with an admiration that was unmistakable to the painter--perhaps to Cynthia also, for a glow that might have been of annoyance or anger, and yet was like the color of the mountain sunrise, answered in her cheek. [9]
But the McMahons, we'll get them yet,"--a stern, determined look came into his honest eye,--"yes, we'll get them yet. [11]
The widow never wearied of gazing at the young man's fresh, bright face, for although her son could not compare with him in beauty, there was an honest expression in the Junker's eyes, which reminded her of her Wilhelm. [10]
One by one we all had yielded to ceaseless intrigue and common distrust of each other, until no honest man was left; till all were intent to save their lives by holding power; for in this land to lose power is to lose life. [11]
She perceived how waterfall after waterfall was quenching the flames which burned in Don John's honest soul for the supposed welfare of the nation intrusted to him. [10]
Of course, it was very nice of Mr. Wetmore to be so honest, but it did not always seem to be the wisest thing. [8]
Poor Jack, he was very honest when he proposed," she added, with a sigh. [9]
Truly, the woman was to be admired, for she was earning an honest living; and no doubt they lied when they named her with Count Ploare. [11]
And so it was possible to have delightful music, and see the honest Germans drink beer, and gossip in friendly fellowship and with occasional hilarity. [4]
In truth he was none of these things, save that he was of German birth, and of as good and honest German origin as George of Hanover and his descendants, if not so distinguished. [11]
How Mr. Marmaduke was living with the establishment they wrote of was more than the honest Scotchman could imagine. [9]
Well, but he was honest, I'll say that for the rogue and seducer. [11]
But as she was honest and clear-sighted, she could not accept a statement which seemed so plainly in contradiction with his common teachings, without bringing his flattering assertion to the test of another question. [6]
I thought Horne was an honest cattle-man. [13]
His honest face was a picture of consternation. [9]
The other stranger was a New Englander of respectable appearance, with a grave, hard, honest, hay-bearded face, who had come to serve the sick and wounded on the battle-field and in its immediate neighborhood. [6]
None of these visitors was at ease, but, being honest people, they didn't pretend to be. [5]
She was a venerable rack- heap, and a fraud to boot; for she was playing herself for personal property, whereas the good honest dirt was so thickly caked all over her that she was righteously taxable as real estate. [5]
But I still value this thinker as an honest, virile, and brilliantly gifted seeker after truth. [10]
As he led us into the Rotunda, my Lady Dolly, being in one of her whimsical humours, began to recite in the manner of the guide-book, to the vast diversion of our party and the honest citizens gaping at us. [9]
He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal. [5]
Mr. Watling climbs up on the platform and shakes his fist in General Doby's face, and General Doby tearfully appeals for an honest ballot--to the winds. [9]
Tears, genuine, honest, unaffected tears filled her eyes as she went on: "Here I he, a poor sickly woman, sensitive in body and in soul as if I were covered with wounds. [10]
I believe that two men who try to be honest may conscientiously differ. [9]
The ordinary chalet turns a broad, honest gable end to the road, and its ample roof hovers over the home in a protecting, caressing way, projecting its sheltering eaves far outward. [5]
But it is true that what he acquires by the discipline of study and the discipline of work will be available in his earning an honest living. [4]
The results of trials by competent and honest physicians, not pledged to the system. [3]
Why, the knights treated him almost like an equal--it is the honest truth; that is the sort of a man he was. [5]
There is no treacherous blood in her--no, she was always honest and true. [5]
But when I took an honest look at her face, I understood. [11]
His faith was too large and too deep for the formulae he found built into the pulpit, and he was too honest to cover up his doubts under the flowing vestments of a sacred calling. [6]
This had been too daring an experiment with one of her nature, which had within the last few months become as strangely, insistently, even fanatically honest, as it had been elusive in the past. [11]
It is put together in solid blocks of honest brick and stone, and has the air of intending to stay. [5]
Gentlemen, I stand to-day a discredited man because the honest debts I incurred in the service of that government are repudiated, because my friends who helped it, Father Gibault, Vigo, and Gratiot, and others have never been repaid. [9]
You show it to your friends, reading to them the French name, which you can never remember, on the label; and you take an honest pride in the successful fruit of long care. [4]
But with regard to the poor hunted man, I fear he is my father's freedman, the most faithful, honest soul! [10]
I'm so glad to run across an honest man. [9]
I am going to purge myself of the last vestiges of artificiality and pretence, and then start fair on your own honest level and be worthy mate to you thenceforth. [5]
I had begun to nurse a good deal of pride in presiding over a table whereon was the fruit of my honest industry. [4]
Presently he seemed to note something in the woman's eyes, for he spoke almost sharply to her: "Jean Labrouk was honest man, and kept faith with comrades. [11]
She now returned to Lugano, and there sought to compensate her poor honest friend by the sale of her ornaments, but the time soon came when the generous artist was forced to submit to be supported by the charity of a servant. [10]
And you cot to loog oudt for yourself when you meet a rich man whether you meet an honest man. [8]
He can decide to lead an honest life and have his liberty, or he can elect to work for the State all his life in criminal confinement. [4]
She's been used to honest people; he's talked a new language to her--tricks caught in his travels. [11]
She had risen to her feet with the first question; and there she stood, with her pretty face bent floorward whilst I inquired, but always with her honest eyes looking me in the face when it came her turn to answer. [5]
It is enough to have a few honest emotions--very few--and stand by them till all be done. [11]
It is harder to fight against cunning weakness than against honest enmity. [10]
It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men. [7]
I am going to be myself--my genuine self, my honest self, my natural self, clear and clean of sham and folly and fraud, and worthy of you. [5]
He knew him to be honest, kind, charitable, self-denying, wherever any sorrow was to be alleviated, always reverential, with a cheerful trust in the great Father of all mankind. [6]
I want you to be honest with yourself. [8]
I have tried to be honest with you, William, and I will always be so. [9]
Our Huns began to arrive, their Attilas unrecognized among them: to drive our honest Americans and Irish and Germans out of the mills by "lowering the standard of living. [9]
He was about to answer her question, when, all at once, her honest eyes looked into his mournfully, and she said with an incredible pathos and simplicity: "I don't know how I am going to live on with Magon. [11]
It is manifest to all honest minds that if an author is entitled to own his work for a term of years, it is equally the duty of his government to make that ownership perpetual. [4]
I have no ties, no kindred,--no real friends, save you and Dale, and some of these honest fellows whom I lead to slaughter. [9]
It cost me three shillings and eightpence, good honest coin of the last reign, that old Harry that's just dead ne'er touched or tampered with. [5]
I dragged through three chapters, losing flesh all the time, and then was honest enough to quit, and confess to myself that I haven't any romance literature appetite, as far as I can see, except for your books. [5]
His principles are those of honest love for all which is good and admirable in human character wherever he finds it, while he unaffectedly hates oppression, and despises selfishness with all his heart. [6]
But this time they stumbled upon the misfortune of an honest Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. James Guthrie), and he spoiled everything. [5]
This Honest, whom they ever counted also a Pious Man, had so much conceit of his Talents, that instead of Reading a Sermon appointed, he to the Surprize of the People, fell to preaching one of his own. [6]
Good, honest people these, not unduly puffed up by the brick house, grubbing away year in and year out. [4]
The first Preface, therefore, is likely to be the weakest part of a work containing the thoughts of an honest writer. [6]
The expressman was there, hard at work,--a plain man of fifty, with a simple, honest, good-natured face, and a breezy, practical heartiness in his general style. [5]
I noticed that there were no pockets in any of their garments, and learned that a pocket would be considered prima facie evidence of theft, as no honest person would have use for such a secret receptacle. [6]
If they show themselves where they have no business, the little rascals frighten honest folks worse than ever people were frightened by the Dragon of Rhodes! [6]
Honest, Miss Withersteen, them steers was thin. [13]
I looked at them and convinced myself that they were neither Rebels in disguise, nor deserters, nor camp-followers, nor miscreants, but plain, honest men on a proper errand. [6]
Here they had their furnace, smelting-pots, and dies; here they manufactured those spurious quarters and halves that their confidants, who were pardoned, were circulating, and which a few honest men were "nailing to the counter. [4]
Men will call thee mad, if thou remainest honest, but that is within thine own bosom and with fate. [11]
We see that the writer has not been honest with himself or with us in his views of human life. [4]
It belong to the wife of an honest man-- maint'nant! [11]
It was worth the whole journey to take this honest man by the hand. [4]
Then there is the well-known example of the honest clerk on a small salary who was ruined by the gift of a repeating watch--an expensive timepiece that required at least ten thousand a year to sustain it: he is now in Canada. [4]
The President of the United States is only the engine driver of our broad-gauge mail-train; and every honest, independent thinker has a seat in the first-class cars behind him. [6]

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