Use vices in a sentence
Sentences ending with vices
- He had no vices. [5]
- Life had been to me pleasant enough--without care, without misery, open, strong and free; our people were not as those others which had learned the white man's vices. [11]
- Below these are the laborers and men who work at trades, who have no voice in the commonwealth, and crowds of young serving-men who become old beggars, highway-robbers, idle fellows, and spreaders of all vices. [4]
- He was the son of old Tom Gaylord, who owned more lumber than any man in the State, and whom Hilary Vane believed to be the receptacle of all the vices. [9]
- He faintly suggests a moral Falstaff, if we can imagine a Falstaff without vices. [4]
More example sentences with the word vices in them
- That Thackeray was wrong in his way of treating Fielding's character and vices, my conscience told me. [14]
- All his vices were and are nothing now. [14]
- The more I weakened, the more stubbornly you fastened on to those particular sins; till at last the places on my person that represent those vices became as callous as shark-skin. [5]
- New diseases and vices have in some cases proved highly destructive; and it appears that a new disease often causes much death, until those who are most susceptible to its destructive influence are gradually weeded out (33. [1]
- Then our talk turned to the interpretation of the seven pillars and steps of the Temple, the seven sciences, the seven virtues, the seven vices, and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. [2]
- This is not to say that they are not attractive; for they have the virtues as well as the vices of a primitive people. [4]
- They had lived to prove, once more, a sad truth which had been proven many times before in the world: that whereas principle is a great and noble protection against showy and degrading vanities and vices, poverty is worth six of it. [5]
- Has he striven through long weeping years to find excuses for the lapse of an only brother; and through daily contact with a poor lost profligate, been compelled into a certain familiarity with the vices that his soul abhors? [14]
- At first Philip thought he would die, and forswore wine and cards, and some other things the taste for which he had cultivated, and likewise worse vices that had come to him by nature. [9]
- Mr. Stith says that it was the testimony of his fellow soldiers and adventurers that "they never knew a soldier, before him, so free from those military vices of wine, tobacco, debts, dice, and oathes. [4]
- He has no small vices, and no false feelings. [11]
- I cannot map out vices, and virtues, and debatable land. [14]
- Perhaps, in like manner, our faults and vices are virtues in some remote planet. [4]
- Having pointed out, in detail, the several vices of this language, I now come to the brief and pleasant task of pointing out its virtues. [5]
- He had kept his side of the gulf, but gloating on this touch between the old luxurious, indulgent life, with its refined vices, and this present coarse, hard life, where pleasures were few and gross. [11]
- He was fresh, high- minded, extravagant, idle; but he had no vices, and no particular vanity save for his personal appearance. [11]
- He appears to have had none of the small vices of the gallants of his time. [4]
- For you may depend upon it, there is not one of these vices that has not a head of its own,--an intelligence,--a meaning,--a certain virtue, I was going to say,--but that might, perhaps, sound paradoxical. [6]
- If she had as many teeth as she possesses vices, she might be happy; yet one admirable quality mingles with the evil traits in her character. [10]
- Yet his vices are of the surface, and do not destroy the foundations of his social and domestic scheme. [11]
- Now I don't approve of dissipation, and I don't indulge in it, either; but I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices, and so I don't want to hear from you any more. [5]
- He was heavy and thick-set, with huge shoulders, big hands, and beady eyes that looked out of a stolid face where long hours, greed and vices other than drink had left their mark. [11]
- Just so of all the vices, and particularly of this vice of intemperance. [6]
- She saw and aided the ruin of the empire; but it may be said of her, that her vices were greater than her misfortunes. [4]
- Had he been a Protestant his vices would have made him anathema, but, being what he was, his fellow- villagers had treated him with kindness. [11]
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