Use virtue in a sentence
Sentences starting with virtue
- Virtue had not often been so triumphant, and never so dramatic as to produce at the critical instant so emblematic a defender as this matronly lady in dove colour. [9]
- Virtue goes out of him into others. [6]
- Virtue in humble life! [6]
- Virtue was at its supreme height in Pontiac that day. [11]
Sentences ending with virtue
- That is a woman's virtue. [2]
- It is one with the generations of noblesse and honour and virtue. [11]
- Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue. [6]
- Talks with Brother V. strengthen, refresh, and support me in the path of virtue. [2]
- He always carried two watches,--I doubt if he told why, any more than Dr. Johnson told what he did with the orange-peel,--but probably with reference to this virtue. [3]
- Why should we try to make it appear that abstention from lying is a virtue? [5]
- It is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue. [2]
- In the Thebaid there dwelt a penitent who thought he led a perfectly saintly life and far transcended all his companions in stern virtue. [10]
- I appeal to that larger and more solemn public, who know how to look with tender humility at faults and errors; how to admire generously extraordinary genius, and how to reverence with warm, full hearts all noble virtue. [14]
- I just mean that conventionality isn't virtue. [4]
Short sentences using virtue
- A very tower of virtue. [9]
- Truth and virtue all combined! [5]
- Is virtue piecemeal? [6]
- Wisdom, virtue, enlightenment? [2]
- Virtue! [11]
Sentences containing virtue two or more times
- Do justice then to the blinded souls, justice in Plato's sense of the word; he calls the virtue of reason Wisdom; the virtue of spirit Courage, and the virtue of the senses Temperance. [10]
- 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]
- And virtue is rewarded, lavishly, as virtue should be, in dollars and cents, in stocks and bonds, in pearls and diamonds. [9]
- He had seen life from all angles, and he was not prepared to give any virtue or the possession of any virtue too much rope; while nothing in life surprised him. [11]
- He who seeks any other reward for virtue, than virtue itself, will not lack disappointment. [10]
More example sentences with the word virtue in them
- In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
- But I think you come to smile on virtue, all the same, Sergeant Tom. [11]
- An abundant supply would still remain, by virtue of which she might continue to sin without fearing that Cleopatra would ever part from her Charmian. [10]
- Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
- In short, she was a lady; not one by virtue of a visit to the gods that rule o'er Buckingham Palace, but by the claims of good breeding and long descent. [11]
- The fall of virtue, the ruin of innocence, would be vividly brought home. [11]
- This is no virtue, for we all have it. [9]
- Not he; but virtue passed through the hem of their parchment and leather garments whenever he touched them, as the precious drugs sweated through the bat's handle in the Arabian story. [6]
- It draws the virtue out of what is best worth reading, as hot water draws the strength of tea-leaves. [6]
- It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
- And yet, by virtue of the strange ceremony through which they had passed, he seemed to have changed. [9]
- I have some virtue of that. [11]
- But then the virtue of fools is its own reward. [11]
- She knew the virtue of every herb in the big chest in the storeroom. [9]
- There is much virtue in to-morrow," I added. [11]
- It is no virtue in me to plead patriotism--it is a mere argument, a weapon that I use; but my heart is behind it, and it is a means to that which you will thank me for one day. [11]
- The crowning human virtue in a man is to let his wife poke the fire. [4]
- But how much virtue and manhood it has can never be told until they are tried, and those who are first to doubt the prevailing existence of these qualities are not commonly themselves patterns of either. [6]
- Justice is a very rare virtue in our community. [6]
- Thou hast told us faithfully all that thou hast heard, and thereby proved that thou canst obey--the first virtue of a priest. [10]
- So she remained under the linden, and Dr. Mathys did not put her newly won virtue of patience, which he prized so highly, to too severe a trial. [10]
- The parable was told to illustrate a single virtue, humility, and the most unwarranted inferences have been drawn from it as to the whole character of the two parties. [6]
- Virtue, he says--but to what end repeat such stale old stuff? [10]
- She herself seemed to read Maitresse Aimable all at once--read her by virtue, and in the light, of true love, the primitive and consuming feeling in the breast of each for a man. [11]
- I don't pretend to be a paragon of virtue, but I have a kind of a conscience which tells me when I am doing wrong, if I listen to it. [9]
- He was reduced to a beatific attitude of submission, for he knew that he had few odds with him now, and that he must live by virtue of new virtues. [11]
- This youth, then, thought him something of a fool: read him by virtue of his ornamentations, his outer idiosyncrasy! [11]
- But far before this virtue stands another--that of spelling a word according to the sound of it. [5]
- As soon as this virtue is honoured and practised by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually becomes incorporated in public opinion. [1]
- The virtue of this dictum lies not in dogma, but in an indomitable attitude of mind to which the world owes its every advance in civilization; quixotic, perhaps, but necessary to great accomplishment. [9]
- Speaking generally, I think we may say that Haller's doctrine is the one now commonly received; namely, that the muscles contract in virtue of their own inherent endowments. [3]
- They know whether they are restless or contented, and what examples they set to the peoples who get their ideas of republican simplicity and virtue from the Americans who sojourn among them. [4]
- By virtue of these marvels of the movies: Hampton ugly and sordid Hampton!--actually began for Janet to take on a romantic tinge. [9]
- If we knew, there would be no virtue in striving. [9]
- Besides the cathedral there were the very lovely cloisters, the noble chapter-house with its central pillar,--this structure has been restored and rejuvenated since my earlier visit,--and there were the peaceful dwellings, where I insist on believing that only virtue and happiness are ever tenants. [6]
- You know the theory at Washington is that virtue is its own reward. [4]
- Is it vain then to strive after righteousness and virtue that Thou givest us over unto death, and dost not fight for us? [10]
- Some one of them, keener-eyed than the rest, had seen that there was a meaning and virtue in this unsuccessful book, for which there was a new audience educated since it had tried to breathe before its time. [6]
- Nonsense; it is their angelic virtue of submission. [4]
- The virtue of the world is not mainly in its leaders. [6]
- He said-- 'That's the very main virtue of the thing. [5]
- In this case the struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe, and virtue will be triumphant. [1]
- We have given the pilgrims a good many examples that might benefit them, but it is virtue thrown away. [5]
- On the contrary, the other three--knaves and gamesters by their trade--while intent upon their game, were yet as cool and quiet as if every virtue had been centered in their breasts. [12]
- We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. [7]
- It is not the first time virtue has been tested in Egypt, or the first time that it has fallen. [11]
- There was Wallstein, the fairest, ablest, and richest financier of them all, with a marvellous head for figures and invaluable and commanding at the council-board, by virtue of his clear brain and his power to co-ordinate all the elements of the most confusing financial problems. [11]
- Domestic virtue, in the face of such mocking heresy, is exceptionally difficult of attainment. [9]
- I cannot call the Egyptian constancy a virtue, it is a delusion. [10]
- By virtue of the authority in me vested I declare the fair open. [5]
- It was true that Tardif was a thief, but she knew that his theft would be counted a virtue before the world. [11]
- You see, yourself, that he can feel shame; it's the only virtue he's got. [5]
- He should have taught her to derive happiness from virtue. [10]
- That required little talent, but a good deal of the humbler sort of virtue. [6]
- As Leicester stepped suddenly into Angele's gaze, she was only, as it were, conscious of a presence in itself alluring by virtue of the history surrounding it. [11]
- By virtue of such a system wealth was as inevitable as human necessity; and the thought of human necessity did not greatly bother me. [9]
- He had no strength to enforce discipline nor organize expeditions for supplies; besides, he was acting under a commission whose virtue had expired, and the mutinous spirits rebelled against his authority. [4]
- Every man has some vice or other, if it's only hanging on to virtue too tight. [11]
- I see in some of the modern novels we have been talking of the same unscrupulous daring, a blindness to moral distinctions, a constant exaltation of a passion into a virtue, an entire disregard of the immutable laws on which the family and society rest. [4]
- Prosperity had not softened him; it had given him an arrogance unduly emphasised by a reputation for rigid virtue and honesty. [11]
- She, who cared so little for law and duty, virtue and morality, now felt offended, wounded, tortured by Lienhard's conduct. [10]
- This was a sight which had more virtue and refreshment in it than any aspect of nature that I had looked upon, I am afraid I must say for years. [6]
- Now, the other side of seventy, I have preserved, as my chiefest virtue, modesty. [5]
- The better, the shorter, the easier forms are constantly gaining the upper hand, and they owe their success to their own inherent virtue. [1]
- I am deeply sensible to your expressions of personal attachment to me as the author of certain writings which have brought me very near to you, in virtue of some affinity in our ways of thought and moods of feeling. [6]
- In his presence self-command came to me, as a virtue gone out of him. [9]
- Her own worth seemed clearer to her than ever before, from a comparison with these miserable creatures, and a wonderful certainty of ultimate victory stole into her heart, for Nitetis was a firm believer in the magic power of virtue. [10]
- Thiers, a Bonapartist, says that Napoleon's power was based on his virtue and genius. [2]
- Every chivalrous and royal virtue is in his blood. [10]
- They ought to reward virtue and punish vice; and they are no better than corruptible judges; for you know beforehand just what and how much will avail to purchase their favors. [10]
- While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. [7]
- No virtue can reach its highest usefulness without careful and diligent cultivation--therefore, it goes without saying that this one ought to be taught in the public schools--at the fireside--even in the newspapers. [5]
- He had the rare virtue of magnanimity. [4]
- I never felt quite sure about any extraordinary endowment being a part of my inheritance in virtue of my special conditions of birth. [6]
- This is the Puritan idea, and it must be said for it that in our experience virtue and idleness are not commonly companions. [4]
- Inertia is that property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. [5]
- Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress. [7]
- He is to practise virtue only because it brings him pleasure; for who could remain virtuous without being wise, noble, and just?--and whoever is all these cannot have his peace of mind disturbed, and must be really happy in the exact meaning of the master. [10]
- In regard to philanthropy, the greatest virtue of crowned heads, Napoleon also did all in his power. [2]
- And then came perplexities, difficulties, interests, and conflicting passions in life that he had not suspected, good that looked like evil, and evil that had an alloy of virtue, and the way was confused. [4]
- His whole life passed before his mind, and he found in it, besides terrible suffering, great and noble joys, and not an hour in which his desire for virtue was weakened. [10]
- It had knocked over its tens of thousands; it had its redeeming virtue, and helped to set up a poor fellow now and then. [6]
- How much of our virtue do we owe to inherited habits? [4]
- There were some others, however, who, believing the public to labor under a delusion, thought it worth while to see whether the charm would be broken by an open trial of its virtue, as compared with that of some less hallowed formula. [3]
- Prudence, on the other hand, which does not concern the welfare of others, though a very useful virtue, has never been highly esteemed. [1]
- And there's only one virtue that I lay any claim to,--no one can say that I ever went back on a friend. [9]
- Among these some one is pretty sure to take the lead, by virtue of a personal magnetism, or some peculiarity of expression, which places the face in quick sympathetic relations with the lecturer. [6]
- Not to smile on virtue, but to collar what is wrong. [11]
- He discourses wisely on "Prudence," a virtue which he does not claim for himself, and nobly on "Heroism," which was a shining part of his own moral and intellectual being. [6]
- The same idea of virtue in unlovely secretions! [3]
- Such a pitch of virtue does not occur often in real life, especially in such natures as Harry's, whose generosity and unselfishness were matters of temperament rather than habits or principles. [5]
- As a consequence of this, the senseless practice of celibacy has been ranked from a remote period as a virtue. [1]
- This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. [1]
- At the end of the meeting the Grand Master with irony and ill-will reproved Bezukhov for his vehemence and said it was not love of virtue alone, but also a love of strife that had moved him in the dispute. [2]
- He had ambition of several kinds, and he had the virtue of not caring who knew of it. [11]
- With a sigh of relief, and a hasty thanksgiving to her patron saint, she at once began to praise the virtue and piety of the servant as well as his lord; but Eva again interrupted, and asked what Sir Heinz Schorlin desired. [10]
- We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to, in virtue of our endowments. [6]
- When the newspapers of our side had discovered and published it, and put it beyond his power to deny it, then he came forward and made a virtue of necessity by acknowledging it. [7]
- My brother speaks of Mr. Emerson thus:-- "Calm, as not doubting the virtue residing in his sceptre. [6]
- In the light of love weakness is a virtue and want an additional charm. [10]
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