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Sentences starting with respectable

Respectable young men they were, too--of good families, and brought up in the church. [5]
Respectable settlers were beginning to arrive. [5]

Sentences ending with respectable

This is he whom _I_ adopted and would make respectable! [5]
He hated everybody who was rich and respectable. [10]
A point of transit of much that is remarkable, and of permanence for much that is respectable. [6]
There may be too much disposition to condone the crimes of those who have been considered respectable. [4]
In this case the novel itself was recognized as being, without extraneous help, respectable. [5]
My wife puts the facts in, and they make it respectable. [5]
Don't, don't think that I'm not respectable! [9]
This will show that assassination is respectable. [5]
The universal conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity or a sham, never in the interest of a thing fine or respectable. [5]
At the beginning of the contest, constitutional scruples might be respectable. [6]

Short sentences using respectable

Very respectable people, the Selby's. [5]
All the respectable ones. [5]
The truth is always respectable. [5]
She looks respectable? [11]

Sentences containing respectable two or more times

What we do want is the conclusive evidence that respectable citizens of Louisiana are willing to be members of Congress and to swear support to the Constitution, and that other respectable citizens there are willing to vote for them and send them. [7]

More example sentences with the word respectable in them

If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
Once, when I wrote a Letter to Queen Victoria, you did not put it in the respectable part of the Magazine, but interred it in that potter's field, the Editor's Drawer. [5]
Many men who would make very respectable Presidents of the United States could not successfully run a retail grocery store. [4]
Who in the wide world would come from under the respectable Ortlieb roof, at this hour, to tell a stranger anything whatsoever concerning one of its daughters? [10]
So sacred that whoso ventured to mock them or make fun of their work, could not afterward enter any respectable house, even by the back door. [5]
Of his father, who died in the fourth or fifth year of Henry's age, little seems to be known, except that he was a respectable man and a preacher of the Baptist persuasion. [7]
Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful journal pecuniarily is the best journal. [4]
Gentlemen, that is what 'legal practice' has descended to in the hands of respectable lawyers. [9]
Day after day we issued forth from a musty and highly respectable hotel near Piccadilly to a gloomy Tower, a soggy Hampton Court or a mournful British Museum. [9]
Every one who was respectable and aristocratic in Leipsic followed her, as well as many humbler folk on whom Bianca's glance had rested but once. [10]
A small fish was in the frying-pan, crisp and brown and tempting, and one could see that Marget was not expecting such respectable food as this. [5]
That I never was in a Know-Nothing lodge in Quincy, I should expect could be easily proved by respectable men who were always in the lodges and never saw me there. [7]
So, too, it was everywhere a respectable article of manufacture and merchandise. [7]
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]
Both were still warmly attached to their cousin, although they had been told that, by an open love intrigue, she had forfeited the right to visit the respectable home of modest maidens. [10]
These, by their very numbers, are respectable, and are therefore entitled to a sort of voice--not a loud one, but a modest one; not a boastful one, but an apologetic one. [5]
The obelisk is very common, and when in just proportions and of respectable dimensions is unobjectionable. [6]
There is to us something pathetic in this and in the surprise of the English critic, that there can be any standard of respectable achievement outside of a seven-miles radius turning on Charing Cross. [4]
Laura welcomed Mr. Trollop, a grave, carefully dressed and very respectable looking man, with a bald head, standing collar and old fashioned watch seals. [5]
I am much too respectable for that--yet awhile. [5]
And I am told it was conceived by a lawyer who claims to be a respectable member of his profession, and who has extraordinary ability, Theodore Watling. [9]
The orator appeared to prove that there wasn't a respectable man in the opposite party who wasn't an office-holder, nor a white man of any kind in it who was not an office-holder. [4]
It was pleasant to make the acquaintance of members of so respectable a family. [5]
His close attention to every important object--his modest questions about whatever was new to him--his reverence for wise old age, and his ardent desire to learn many of the fine arts, soon brought him into respectable notice. [5]
If I ventured to cautiously hint that there was not another respectable family in England that would humble itself to hold out the hat--however, that is as far as I ever got; he always cut me short there, and peremptorily, too. [5]
I will travel till I fiend respectable quarters, if I have to hoof it to New Jersey. [5]
The popularity of this immense show was very great, and we found ourselves, A---- and I, in the midst of a vast throng, made up of respectable and comfortable looking people. [6]
At the beginning they knew they could never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies violation of law. [7]
It is because they get him confused with that Lazarus who had no merit but his virtue, and virtue never has been as respectable as money. [5]
An exception to these in Bavaria is the "Allgerneine Zeitung" of Augsburg, which is old and immensely respectable, and is perhaps, for extent of correspondence and splendidly written editorials on a great variety of topics, excelled by no journal in Europe except the London "Times. [4]
I repeat that there has never been so monstrous a doctrine uttered from the mouth of a respectable man. [7]
I saw crossing the street a middle-aged woman,--a decent body, who looked as if she might have come from the lower level of some not opulent but respectable household. [6]
But at length the senator succumbed to the drowsiness which never failed to attack him at this hour, and he forgot the disrepute of his surroundings in a respectable sleep. [9]
I had reached the more respectable portion of the city, where the churches were emptying. [9]
On its river-side the houses and streets were brilliant, but on the hill-slope lay, with but few more respectable exceptions, miserable, poverty-stricken huts constructed of acacia-boughs and Nile-mud. [10]
Gradually, out of the chaotic melee in which these titans were engaged had emerged one group more powerful than the rest and more respectable, whose leader was the Personality to whom I have before referred. [9]
So long as the book was published, and by a respectable firm, he was indifferent as a lord to the ignoble details of royalty. [4]
This check for the amount will be honored at any respectable bank in America. [5]
If one of the ablest lawyers in the city hadn't been hired by the respectable crowd and a lot of other queer work done, the treasurer and purchasing agent would be doing time. [9]
I wonder if that's the attitude the Almighty intended His respectable creatures to take toward one another! [8]
Its population, like that of most respectable suburbs, must belong mainly to the kind of citizens which resembles in many ways the better class,--as we sometimes dare to call it,--of one of our thriving New England towns. [6]
He knows, too, that in regard to the Mexican War story the more respectable papers of his own party throughout the State have been compelled to take it back and acknowledge that it was a lie. [7]
Every material statement that I made has been sworn to by men who, in former times, were thought as respectable as General Adams. [7]
The only difference that I know of between a silent lie and a spoken one is, that the silent lie is a less respectable one than the other. [5]
Barbara now stated that he was the son of a respectable family, and had by no means come here to steal the property of others; but the marquise, though she probably correctly interpreted the handsome young fellow's late visit, vehemently insisted upon his arrest. [10]
The Consul was surprised when he heard it, and said he knew the young fellow's family very well, and that they were an old and highly respectable family and worth a hundred and fifty thousand dollars! [5]
Any of the staid, respectable, aged people who were there that night can testify to the truth of that statement. [5]
Next, we had Sodom and Gomorrah, and "the attempt to discover two or three respectable persons there," as Satan described it. [5]
Their beavers are smoothly brushed, and their boots well polished; all their appointments are tidy; they look the respectable walking gentleman to perfection. [6]
Come, I will show you the peonies--they are at their best--before I go in and make myself respectable for breakfast. [9]
It is a shame to own it, but there were persons otherwise respectable not unwilling to say that they believed the old valor of Revolutionary times had died out from among us. [6]
Still I won't say but what some of them are very good people--and respectable, too. [5]
Well, then we sat down, and I took a smoke, and she told me all about her people in Massachusetts--her father is a physician and it is an old and respectable family--(I am able to believe anything she says. [5]
And one odd result of the scarcity of what the English are pleased to call "petrol," by which they mean gasoline, is the reappearance of that respectable, but almost obsolete animal, the family carriage-horse; of that equally obsolete vehicle, the victoria. [9]
They were not respectable people--they were not worthy people--they were not learned and wise and brilliant people--but in their breasts, all their stupid lives long, resteth a peace that passeth understanding! [5]
Say, I was respectable once, and had a good place. [9]
Windsor, a most respectable old town round which the railroad sweeps, with its iron bridge, conspicuous King's College, and handsome church spire, is a great place for plaster and limestone, and would be a good location for a person interested in these substances. [4]
Even if a respectable number remain in your congregation, after this excitement and publicity have died down, I have reason to know that it is impossible to support a large city church on contributions. [9]
It's the highly respectable members of the community I've always had to watch. [11]
Arrived at that respectable mansion, she inquired for Mr. Gridley, and was informed that he was at home. [6]
Let us surmise, rather, that a decrepit social system in a moment of lowered vitality becomes an easy prey to certain diseases which respectable communities are not supposed to have. [9]
The Danish physicians published an account of their cases, containing numerous instances of alleged success, in a respectable octavo volume. [6]
The three respectable professions no longer offer sufficient inducement, and they crowd more and more into trade. [4]
We desired, if possible, admission into some respectable German family, where we should be forced to speak German, and in which our society, if I may so express it, would be some compensation for our bad grammar. [4]
We became at once distinguished and respectable by patent. [11]
But Nick, hurrying on, came near to bowling more than one respectable citizen we met on the banquette, into the ditch. [9]
The wall spaces on the right and left are occupied by high bookcases filled with respectable volumes in calf and dark cloth bindings. [9]
And they are often the respectable lawyers, too, men of high standing, whom you would not think would do such things. [9]
Ditmar, removing one of the side curtains that she might see, with just a hint in his voice of a reverence she was too excited to notice, pointed out the stern and respectable facades of the twin Chippering mansions standing side by side. [9]
These are twenty-four of the most respectable men in the State. [7]
Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity. [5]
The very fact of my going there in secret to that dark place of his from out of the bright, respectable region in which I lived was in itself an acknowledgment of this. [9]
The respectable firm of Ellery and Knowles was involved. [9]
With lively sensations of curiosity and excitement, tempered by a certain anxiety as to my ability to match wits with the Spider, I made my way to his "lair" over Monahan's saloon, situated in a district that was anything but respectable. [9]
The general consent of civilized people was supposed to have banished certain subjects from the conversation of well-bred people and the pages of respectable literature. [6]
As it was, of a week day, he could not be distinguished from any respectable layman. [11]
Still there were not wanting some among the more respectable members of the medical profession who supported its claims. [6]
Indeed, I should not have left them now, but I could not well deny myself to so large and respectable a body. [7]
The heroine of my romance was neither young nor handsome; she had no lover; she had entered the convent of her own free will, as a respectable asylum, and was one of the most cheerful residents within its walls. [4]
A novelty that might end in the destruction of some worthy and respectable citizens. [5]
The gardienne looked me over, and evidently finding me respectable, replied with many protestations of sorrow that he was not, that he had gone with Mamselle very early that morning to his country place at Les Iles. [9]
It's a mere matter of business, of getting your respectable firm to retain a City Hall attorney to fix it up with the assessor. [9]
This was a little spat between the twins; not much of a spat, but still a spat; and before they got far with it, they were in a decided condition of irritation while pretending to be actuated by more respectable motives. [5]
The houses were large, and looked solid and respectable, many of them were shingled on the sides, a spire peeped out over the green trees, and the hamlet was at once homelike and picturesque. [4]
As you well know, I have not time to write a letter of respectable length. [7]
As a result, it was so respectable that March began to respect these intentions, began to respect himself for combining and embodying them in the volume which appealed to him with a novel fascination, when the first advance copy was laid upon his desk. [8]
The making of it was regarded as an honorable livelihood, and he who could make most was the most enterprising and respectable. [7]
The swindler passes it on to confederates, and the latter employ a respectable firm of solicitors to ask the dupe if his signature is genuine. [5]
We have seen it in the first century divided among clergymen, magistrates, and regular practitioners; yet, on the whole, for the time, and under the circumstances, respectable, except where it invoked supernatural agencies to account for natural phenomena. [3]
The "testimonial" business is, in truth, a little demoralizing, almost as much so as the "donation;" and the demoralization has extended even to our language, so that a perfectly respectable man is often obliged to see himself "made the recipient of" this and that. [4]
Dear sir, this is not any more respectable than for a father to collect toll on the forced prostitution of his own daughter; in fact it is the same thing. [5]
It is an insult to a respectable laundress to carry such things into a house for her to deal with. [6]
Two St. Gre's, indifferently painted, but rigorous and respectable, relieved the whiteness of the wall. [9]
He had fallen in with this book at an auction, and bought it to place in his shelves with the other "properties" of the office, because it would look respectable. [6]
I was serene in the midst of the scoldings that were heaped upon the Ottoman government for its affront offered to a pleasuring party of entirely respectable gentlemen and ladies I said, "We that have free souls, it touches us not. [5]
Her parentage was honest and respectable and not exalted. [11]
The neighbourhood was highly respectable, and inhabited by families of German extraction. [9]
They will come here and play, the young gentlemen, and I cannot find it in my heart to drive them away, though sometimes I lose a respectable lodger by their noise. [9]
Susanne Schindler--that was her name--was the daughter of a respectable notary's clerk, who was obliged to wander about the world a great deal, and perished in Hungary just as she reached womanhood. [10]
Lienhard had told her about the charming prisoner who had been released and begged her to help him bring her back to a respectable and orderly life. [10]

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