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Sentences starting with vice

Vice flourished luxuriantly during the hey-day of our "flush times. [5]

Sentences ending with vice

Is he one who has led a wild and struggling and isolated life,--seeing few but plain and outspoken Northerns, unskilled in the euphuisms which assist the polite world to skim over the mention of vice? [14]
Sure, then, that's what I say, what's his vice? [11]
I've got no vice. [11]
He don't seem to have a single vice. [11]
It was as though vague fear had seized him and held him in a vice. [11]
For a young thing like that, who loves amusement, there is no pleasant occupation but vice. [10]
I thought of St. John's, as you did, as an oasis in a desert of misery and vice. [9]
His smooth-shaven face seemed to bear witness that its owner was one who had pushed frugality to the borders of a vice. [9]
The particular pigeon is spotted, and, his acquaintance having been made, he is encouraged in every form of vice. [5]
But intoxication was in general looked upon by the Egyptians as a forbidden and despicable vice. [10]

Short sentences using vice

What's his vice? [11]

Sentences containing vice two or more times

There I met an equally poor friend, William Davidson, who had not a single vice, unless you call it a vice in a Scot to love Scotch. [5]

More example sentences with the word vice in them

So long as your surly old father sits over the vice, he only whistles a song and spares you his complaints. [10]
Is swording then your dearest vice that you must urge it on a harmless gentle man, and my visitor? [11]
The answer to your arguments is to be seen on every side, atheism, hypocrisy, vice, misery, insane and cruel grasping after wealth. [9]
When people plead with you at this late day to quit that vice, that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. [5]
I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, or moral nature must be debilitated. [6]
The awkward, uncouth wickedness of remote country-places, where culture has died out after the first crop, is about as disagreeable as the ranker and richer vice of city life, forced by artificial heat and the juices of an overfed civilization. [4]
He thought vice was ugly; he had imagination and a sense of form. [11]
He added a vice, presently--that of secret gambling. [5]
It's the worst vice I've got--from my standpoint, anyway, because it's the one he can most easily find out, through the impatience of my creditors. [5]
It's the biggest vice ever tuk grip of a man. [11]
So many of us were steeped in selfishness and vice, were a burden on the world. [9]
One must go to the Bois de Boulogne to see fashionable dressing, splendid equipages and stunning liveries, and to the Faubourg St. Antoine to see vice, misery, hunger, rags, dirt--but in the thoroughfares of Naples these things are all mixed together. [5]
If you wish to save men from any particular vice, set up a tremendous cry of warning about some other; and they will all give their special efforts to the one to which attention is called. [4]
He might be this or that, but he carried no evil or vice of character in his face. [11]
Can you endure the thought that by your hand innocence may be consigned to vice, the rose trodden under foot in the mud? [10]
His mind had the poetry of a free, simple--even wild-life, but he had no instinct for vice in the name of amusement. [11]
It is probable that he knew that, and refrained from letting her into the knowledge of this vice, contracted in the war when, seriously ill, he was able to drag himself about from patient to patient only by the help of opium. [11]
I told him that he had no fault; that the one action that I had called a vice was an heroic exhibition of regard for my interests. [4]
The Vice President telegraphed back that every berth was engaged (which was not true--it goes without saying) but that he was sending his own car for us. [5]
They have always stood for public spirit, and this Mr. Summer, although he is little over thirty, was chairman of that Vice Commission which made such a stir in New York a year ago. [9]
And now its Splurge, of New York; and now its Batters of New Hampshire--and now the Vice President! [5]
Every man has some vice or other, if it's only hanging on to virtue too tight. [11]
I shall be slow to acknowledge that your harbor or your river is more important than mine, and vice versa. [7]
Mrs. Datchet said she had been living in a den of iniquity and vice, and didn't know it. [9]
He was that rare thing in a new land, a decadent, a connoisseur in vice, a lover of opiates and of liquor. [11]
There is real poverty in those rooming houses, and I have never seen vice so defiant and shameless. [9]
He was no physical coward, and, in any case, what reason had he for physical fear in the presence of this man weakened by vice and age? [11]
Here, in Sodom, painted vice had lain for an hundred years and bred half the crime of a century. [9]
The food of one animal or of one human being is sometimes poison to another, and vice versa; inert substances may act mechanically, so as to produce the effect of poisons; but this division holds exactly enough for our purpose. [3]
For the absence of vice with the absence of morals are not incongruous in a human face. [11]
Meantime a detail of Socialists had swarmed up the side steps and overflowed the President and the Vice, and were crowding and shouldering and shoving them out of the place. [5]
Hitherto the vice of avarice was the last with which he could have been reproached. [10]
I threw away my pipe, and in doing it felt that at last I was free of a hated vice and one that had ridden me like a tyrant all my days. [5]
Do not misunderstand me to mean that common and low life are not fit subjects of fiction, or that vice is not to be lashed by the satirist, or that the evils of a social state are never to be exposed in the novel. [4]
If the old man lied, and had not been in prison all these years, he must have had misery far worse, for neither vice nor poverty alone could so shatter a human being. [11]
The Vice Consul made the contract for me yesterday-to-wit: a barber is to come every morning 8.30 and shave me and keep my hair trimmed for $2.50 a month. [5]
Since laws were made for every degree, to curb vice in others as well as in me--and so forth you know--doesn't it strike you in that light? [12]
But what is known as industrialism brought in its train fear and favour, privilege and poverty, slums, disease, and municipal vice, fostered a too rapid immigration, established in America a tenant system alien to our traditions. [9]
P'r'aps J. G. Kerry's got that vice same as me. [11]
The only vice John Sibley's got is me. [11]
For many years its sociable ways made it a favorite; but one day it got caught in a vice and its left leg was broken. [10]
He felt as if he must cleanse himself to his very soul, not only from the dust of many weeks, but from the rebellion and despondency, the ignominy and bitterness, and the contact with vice and degradation. [10]
I have an idea that when a vice or virtue skips one generation, it appears with increased violence or persistence in the next, for, passing over my father into my defenceless breast, the spirit of sport went mad in me--or almost so. [11]
Disband these societies, hotbeds of vice, of moral decay--perpetuators of ancestral superstition. [5]
As an animal, his eye showed a nature free from vice. [11]
Thus were the hidden vice and suffering of these sinister places occasionally brought to light, exposed to the curious and morbid stares of those whose own turn might come on the morrow. [9]
In other words, he had that fatal trait of those who strive to make the world better by talk and violence, the vice of indolence. [11]
By the time he had gone a hundred steps from those windows with their cursed glare, the horse was displaying all the temper and vice that had been taken out of him as a foal. [10]
He's got to have one; anny man as is a man has to have one vice. [11]
I could not have enjoyed my pet vice more if my gentle tormentor had been a smoker herself, and an advocate of the practice. [5]
Note that he hath not the pulse of them with fevers, and by what Dorcas telleth me there hath been no long shutting up of the vice naturales. [3]
It is a great and good and noble country, and hates all forms of vice and chicanery. [5]
He has only got one vice. [11]
The joy of giving was rapidly growing to a vice. [11]
All through this Faubourg St. Antoine, misery, poverty, vice, and crime go hand in hand, and the evidences of it stare one in the face from every side. [5]
Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. [2]
But she has fallen into the hands of a reprobate heathen, and here, where vice prowls about the city like a roaring lion, she will be lost--lost, if I do not rescue her. [10]
It was a face without care, without vice, without fear, and without morals. [11]
They are thus exposed to early death during war, are often tempted into vice, and are prevented from marrying during the prime of life. [1]
The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to acquire it shortly. [5]
And yet, where does vice display itself so freely and so unchecked? [10]
I have long disliked her, but since yesterday I abhor her like the spider which she can simulate, like snakes and toads, falsehood and vice. [10]
After their father died Fabian gave way to the vice. [11]
Jacko continued to deport himself well until the young chickens came; he was actually cured of the fox vice of chicken-stealing. [4]
He has his dependents, his allies, his society of vice, all the various machinery of temptation and indulgence. [4]
Even in his cups, even after his darling vice had submerged him, Jim Templeton was a man marked out from his fellows, distinguished and very handsome. [11]
Messrs. Bumpus and Crane are arranged on the plan of the man and the woman in the toy called a "weather-house," both on the same wooden arm suspended on a pivot,--so that when one comes to the door, the other retires backwards, and vice versa. [6]
Had Gaston have come to her feet she would probably have got at the truth somehow, and have worked in his favour--the joy vice takes to side with virtue, at times--when it is at no personal sacrifice. [11]
He jumped and caught Buckmaster's wrist in a grip like a vice. [11]
Men who lived by plunder, profligacy, and riot; squandering their gold in doing ill, and propagating vice and evil. [12]
If not criminals by heredity, they are largely made so by environment; they are either physical degenerates or they are brutalized by vice. [4]
This is a bold conjecture; it adds however to the importance of our heroine; and without doubt many traditions referring to the one have been transferred to the other, and vice versa. [10]
A questioner was before him who, poor, unheeded, an ancient victim of vice, could yet wield a weapon whose sweep of wounds would be wide. [11]
Sir S. G. Babbs, it will be remembered, gave L100,000 to build a home for the propagation of Vice, and--'" "That's droll! [11]
Pierre had arrived at the Post three days before, to find a half-breed trapper and an Indian helpless before the sickness which was hurrying to close on John Fawdor's heart and clamp it in the vice of death. [11]
I think you are the very same man who read me a long lecture last week about the degrading vice of smoking cigars, and then came back, in my absence, with your reprehensible fireproof gloves on, and carried off my beautiful parlor stove. [5]
The statues, by Archias's orders, were to be executed in chryselephantine work, and the gold and ivory which this required might only too easily awaken the vice of cupidity in the honest and frugal Biamites. [10]
Familiarity with vice and sordidness in fiction is a low entertainment, and of doubtful moral value, and their introduction is unbearable if it is not done with the idealizing touch of the artist. [4]
Her face brightened and she put her hands together and delivered herself of this speech, most feelingly: "Oh, if I was permitted a vice it would be the gourmandise! [5]
I'm John's vice, and I'm thinking of trying to cure him of it--and cure myself too," Kitty added, folding and unfolding the paper in her hand. [11]
Four hours afterward Alonzo arrived with his mother from her favorite haunts of poverty and vice. [5]
Just so of all the vices, and particularly of this vice of intemperance. [6]
The simplicity of a vice may be as real as the simplicity of a virtue. [11]
He was not a drunkard; he might have had no vice, so free was his face from any sign of dissipation or indulgence; but there was suffering, possibly the marks of some endured shame. [11]
He visited his "good friend Anna Pavlovna" as well as his daughter's "diplomatic salon," and often in his constant comings and goings between the two camps became confused and said at Helene's what he should have said at Anna Pavlovna's and vice versa. [2]

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