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  • I was mindful of the fact that the most senior ANC people would be watching my release from abroad, and attempting to gauge my fidelity from a distance.†   (source)
  • The kind of ideas that have become natural to many male human beings in thinking of females—ideas of protection, fidelity, romantic love and so on—are, of course, unknown to rabbits, although rabbits certainly do form exclusive attachments much more frequently than most people realize.†   (source)
  • "Sometimes, unconsciously, Daugherty expressed it, with more fidelity to exactness, 'a great-looking President.'†   (source)
  • It annoyed Augustus that the pigs had shown so little fidelity; when he came to the camp and noticed the shoat sleeping right beside Po Campo's workplace, he was apt to make tart remarks.†   (source)
  • "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen," Oscar said.†   (source)
  • Drunk one night, they got matching tattoos, each proclaiming their fidelity to the corps.†   (source)
  • He wondered if he ever should see his wife again, now that Captain Black had planted in his mind such strong doubts about the fidelity and character of all women.†   (source)
  • A laotong relationship is made by choice for the purpose of emotional companionship and eternal fidelity.†   (source)
  • While the Korbs' neighbors include Stephen Roosevelt, FDR's grandson, and Edward "Ned" Johnson, chairman and, with his family, majority owner of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, Donald is part of the new wealth on the block.†   (source)
  • This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship.†   (source)
  • The general hopes this important event will serve as a fresh incentive to every officer and soldier to act with fidelity and courage, [the orders read] as knowing that now the peace and safety of his country depends (under God) solely on the success of our arms : And that he is now in the service of a state possessed of sufficient power to reward his merit, and advance him to the highest honors of a free country.†   (source)
  • She also belonged to the minority within the minority who were not interested in marriage or fidelity or cosy evenings at home.†   (source)
  • In this city where sometimes money mattered more than fidelity or honor or merit, style mattered more than money; fashions came and went even more frequently than principles and convictions, leaving only the unchanging signal colors of youth gangs as a sartorial tradition.†   (source)
  • Soul of fidelity, decorum.†   (source)
  • In that no-win situation—inauthentic, even irresponsible, to those looking for a politically representative canvas; marginalized by those assessing value by how "moral" the characters were—my only option was fidelity to my own sensibility.†   (source)
  • A military surgeon would have admired the clinical fidelity of the artist's rendition of all Christ's wounds-the spear wound, the thorn wounds, the holes that were made by the iron spikes.†   (source)
  • I shall preserve such pieces of my life as I can, whatever does not rest on so shoddy a foundation as your fidelity.†   (source)
  • Now the fidelity of the other House is to be the victim.†   (source)
  • They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boasOcl they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents, they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.†   (source)
  • "There is no 'big Me' and 'little you,' " T. M. Alexander, one of the founders of the Southeastern Fidelity Fire Insurance Company, said.†   (source)
  • "Haven't I told you that the only single thing I absolutely demand from you is fidelity?" he said.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, he was a magnificent man with a stentorian voice and a gray, leonine head who gave the appearance that justice was a frail maiden whom he served with unswerving fidelity.†   (source)
  • But marital fidelity is commoner there than it is on Earth; it simply is not legislated.†   (source)
  • Asked to expresshis honest opinion of the secessionist leader, Houston replied: "He has all the characteristics of a dog except fidelity."†   (source)
  • I had defeated a ear and a mountain as she pondered over my father's fidelity.†   (source)
  • , but in fidelity to clear-cut standards.†   (source)
  • What he did not know was that Sabina was charmed more by betrayal than by fidelity.†   (source)
  • This assures fidelity in forming treaties.†   (source)
  • Fidelity to the king was far more widespread in KwaZulu than allegiance to Inkatha.†   (source)
  • And the best security for fidelity is to make a man's interest coincide with his duty.†   (source)
  • I said fidelity would become you more, to use an elegant variation.†   (source)
  • "Fidelity would become you more," he is saying in the midst of his runaway rant.†   (source)
  • As evidence of fraud accumulated, Fidelity had hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency—"The Eye That Never Sleeps"—to search for Holmes.†   (source)
  • It was the first vessel built in the local shipyards and had been christened New Fidelity in memory of its glorious ancestor.†   (source)
  • Holmes had bought the insurance in 1893 from Fidelity's Chicago office, just before the close of the exposition.†   (source)
  • There were so few places for taking on wood, and they were so far apart from each other, that by the fourth day of the trip the New Fidelity had run out of fuel.†   (source)
  • Only two witnesses presented evidence, L. G. Fouse, president of Fidelity Mutual Life, and Detective Frank Geyer.†   (source)
  • In January 1824, Commodore Johann Bernard Elbers, the father of river navigation, had registered the first steamboat to sail the Magdalena River, a primitive old fortyhorsepower wreck named Fidelity.†   (source)
  • Just before leaving Chicago Holmes acquired a life insurance policy, from the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia, to insure Pitezel's life for $10,000.†   (source)
  • So the New Fidelity weighed anchor at dawn the next day, without cargo or passengers, and with the yellow cholera flag waving jubilantly from the mainmast.†   (source)
  • The proof that death had at last interceded on his behalf filled him with the courage he needed to repeat his vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love to Fermina Daza on herfirst night of widowhood.†   (source)
  • Fidelity paid the death benefit.†   (source)
  • In Philadelphia Holmes had swindled the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of nearly $10,000 by apparently faking the death of a policyholder, Ben Pitezel.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza never had another opportunity to see or talk to Fermina Daza alone in the many chance encounters of their very long lives until fifty-one years and nine months and four days later, when he repeated his vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love on her first night as a widow.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday evening, August 7, with temperatures in the nineties and traincars like ovens, Geyer set out again, this time accompanied by Fidelity Mutual's top insurance investigator, Inspector W. E. Gary.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had intended to give her the seventy sheets he could recite from memory after reading them so often, but then he decided on a sober and explicit half page in which he promised only what was essential: his perfect fidelity and his everlasting love.†   (source)
  • In any case, unlike the other riverboats, ancient and modem, New Fidelity boasted a suite next to the Captain's quarters that was spacious and comfortable: a sitting room with bamboo furniture covered in festive colors, a double bedroom decorated in Chinese motifs, a bathroom with tub and shower, a large, enclosed observation deck with hanging ferns and an unobstructed view toward the front and both sides of the boat, and a silent cooling system that kept out external noises and…†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza was never to understand how a few articles of penitential clothing could have hidden the drives of that wild mare who, choking on her own feverish desire, undressed him as she had never been able to undress her husband, who would have thought her perverse, and tried, with the confusion and innocence of five years of conjugal fidelity, to satisfy in a single assault the iron abstinence of her mourning.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Adams," said I, "I know not what part of my conduct, in either public or private life, can have authorized a doubt of my fidelity to the public engagements.†   (source)
  • You pledged fidelity.†   (source)
  • To Strasser, someone who was Japanese simply could not play with any soul or fidelity music that was composed by a European.†   (source)
  • They ate, giggled, and recited nu shu stories like "The Tale of Sangu," in which the daughter of a rich man remains loyal to her poor husband through many ups and downs until they are rewardedfor their fidelity by becoming mandarins; or "The Fairy Carp," in which a fish transforms itself into a lovely young woman who then falls in love with a brilliant scholar, only to have her true form revealed.†   (source)
  • Their love was an oddly asymmetrical construction: it was supported by the absolute certainty of her fidelity like a gigantic edifice supported by a single column.†   (source)
  • That is what made him feel that fidelity deserved pride of place among the virtues: fidelity gave a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.†   (source)
  • Society's security depends on the care taken to put the trust in proper hands, people who want to execute it with fidelity.†   (source)
  • The word fidelity reminded her of her father, a small-town puritan, who spent his Sundays painting away at canvases of woodland sunsets and roses in vases.†   (source)
  • The influences of honor, oaths, reputations, conscience, love of country, and family affections and attachments afford security for their fidelity.†   (source)
  • FIDELITY AND BETRAYAL He loved her from the time he was a child until the time he accompanied her to the cemetery; he loved her in his memories as well.†   (source)
  • For that edifice rested on the single column of her fidelity, and loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.†   (source)
  • Tomas suddenly realized that he was not at all sure he had made the proper choice, but he felt bound to it by then by an unspoken vow of fidelity, so he stood fast.†   (source)
  • None but her fidelity.†   (source)
  • It contained words of love for the Soviet Union, vows of fidelity to the Communist Party; it condemned the intelligentsia, which wanted to push the country into civil war; and, above all, it denounced the editors of the writers' weekly (with special emphasis on the tall, stooped editor; Tomas had never met him, though he knew his name and had seen pictures of him), who had consciously distorted his article and used it for their own devices, turning it into a call for counterrevolution:…†   (source)
  • Just prior to his death when he was awarded a special pension by Congress for his service in the Civil War, the press and the country took the opportunity to pay tribute to his fidelity to principle in a trying hour and his courage in saving his government from a devastating reign of terror.†   (source)
  • Contracts could be as complex as a corporate merger, specifying duration, purposes, duties, responsibilities, number and sex of children, genetic selection methods, whether host mothers were to be hired, conditions for canceling and options for extension—anything but "marital fidelity."†   (source)
  • …for two purposes of display—because she is a knockout, as they say in the American movies that year, but also because by her presence, poise and language she can demonstrate to this distinguished guest, this dynamic helmsman of commerce, how fidelity to the principles of German culture and German breeding is capable of producing (and in such a quaint Slavic outback) the bewitching replica of a fraulein of whom not even the most committed racial purist in the Reich could disapprove.†   (source)
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  • Men who had pictured themselves as Don Juans became models of fidelity.†   (source)
  • You mean, said Msimangu coldly, that she believed in fidelity?†   (source)
  • Why have I no report on the causes of his fidelity to the parish church?†   (source)
  • Down at the Georgia Fidelity, they told me, Yes, back in 1920.†   (source)
  • I never held fidelity to be a Virtue.†   (source)
  • But an old fellow sitting in a split-bottom chair in the courthouse told me that the Seaboard Bank had been bought out by the Georgia Fidelity back about 1920.†   (source)
  • He was in Colonel Sartoris' cav'ry!" not knowing that his father had gone to that war a private in the fine old European sense, wearing no uniform, admitting the authority of and giving fidelity to no man or army or flag, going to war as Malbrouck himself did: for booty - it meant nothing and less than nothing to him if it were enemy booty or his own.†   (source)
  • …remembering—remark that I do not say, hoping—; to become once more for a period without boundaries or location in time, mindless and irrational companion and inmate of a body which, even after four years, with a sort of dismal and incorruptible fidelity which is incredibly admirable to me, is still immersed and obliviously bemused in recollections of old peace and contentment the very names of whose scents and sounds I do not know that I remember; which ignores even the presence and…†   (source)
  • He had all the passionate fidelity of a child to the laws of the community: all the filtered deposit of Sunday Morning Presbyterianism had its effect.†   (source)
  • Marital fidelity had become "news."†   (source)
  • There are no yard measures, neatly divided into the fractions of an inch, that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter, or the fidelity of a sister, or the capacity of a housekeeper.†   (source)
  • He said he would send for me"; unshakable, sheeplike, having drawn upon that reserve of patient and steadfast fidelity upon which the Lucas Burches depend and trust, even though they do not intend to be present when the need for it arises.†   (source)
  • But she could not accuse him now, could not rage at him, demand fidelity or try to shame him, any more than she could bring herself to apologize for accusing him of Bonnie's death.†   (source)
  • He was slow-witted and quite lacking in the sensitive intuitions of Margaret, who loved the man with such passionate fidelity, however, that she seconded all his acts before the world.†   (source)
  • Clytie, not inept, anything but inept: perverse inscrutable and paradox: free, yet incapable of freedom who had never once called herself a slave, holding fidelity to none like the indolent and solitary wolf or bear (yes, wild half untamed black, half Sutpen blood and if 'untamed' be synonymous with 'wild; then 'Sutpen' is the silent unsleeping viciousness of the tamer's lash) whose false seeming holds it docile to fear's hand but which is not, which if this be fidelity, fidelity only…†   (source)
  • The error is easy to produce because "being in love" does very often, in Western Europe, precede marriages which are made in obedience to the Enemy's designs, that is, with the intention of fidelity, fertility and good will; just as religious emotion very often, but not always, attends conversion.†   (source)
  • Fidelity, that was the word.†   (source)
  • …even had no word for it in the tongue he knew who had been born and grown up in a padded silken vacuum cell which might have been suspended on a cable a thousand fathoms in the sea, where pigmentation had no more moral value than the silk walls and the scent and the rose-colored candle shades, where the very abstractions which he might have observed—monogamy and fidelity and decorum and gentleness and affection—were as purely rooted in the flesh's offices as the digestive processes.†   (source)
  • Fidelity, he said.†   (source)
  • There's no place like Henderson," said he, with complacent and annoying fidelity, referring to that haven of enervation, red clay, ignorance, slander, and superstition, in whose effluent rays he had been reared.†   (source)
  • In addition, Gant held 10 shares, which were already worth $200 each ($2,000), in the newly organized Fidelity Bank; his stock of stones, monuments, and fly-specked angels represented an investment of $2,700, although he could not have sold them outright for so much; and he had about $3,000 deposited in the Fidelity, the Merchants, and the Battery Hill banks.†   (source)
  • That she had been near death from tuberculosis, that the violent and garrulous Sheba had married an old man, who had begotten two children and was now about to die, that the whole little family, powerful in cohesive fidelity, were nursing their great sores in privacy, building up before the sharp eyes and rattling tongues of young boys a barrier of flimsy pretense and evasion, numbed him with a sense of unreality.†   (source)
  • He saw himself in exalted circumstances with Bessie Barnes, her pure eyes dim with tears, her sweet lips tremulous with desire: he felt the strong handgrip of Honest Jack, her brother, his truehearted fidelity, the deep eternal locking of their brave souls, as they looked dumbly at each other with misty eyes, and thought of the pact of danger, the shoulder-to-shoulder drive through death and terror which had soldered them silently but implacably.†   (source)
  • For what care the ambassadors of Satan, for all the small fidelities of the letter and the word, if from the singing choir of earthly methodism we can steal a single heart—lift up, flame-tipped, one great lost soul to the high sinfulness of poetry?†   (source)
  • Her fidelity turned in an instant to bitter hatred and he saw that she would betray him.†   (source)
  • Jim had always good wages and as much humouring as would have bought the fidelity of a fiend.†   (source)
  • "What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry.†   (source)
  • She had a mature capacity for fidelity, for belief, for suffering.†   (source)
  • Sacrifice, hope, courage, nobility, fidelity—these had no place here now.†   (source)
  • That was Smith's expression of fidelity, and Kells received it with a pallid, grateful smile.†   (source)
  • Then I should have asked you to accept my pledge of fidelity and to give me yours.†   (source)
  • "Thy memory shall be preserved," he said, "while fidelity and affection have honour upon earth!†   (source)
  • I would trust to my fidelity and perseverance — and to Dora.'†   (source)
  • Is this the end of all my bursting prayers? all my life-long fidelities?†   (source)
  • Her friend easily recognised it, and with it the worth of the other's fidelity.†   (source)
  • For the rest, he was dumb, blind, and deaf, and of unimpeachable fidelity.†   (source)
  • What love, what fidelity, what constancy is there equal to that of a nurse with good wages?†   (source)
  • I hope there is no reason to distrust his fidelity?†   (source)
  • Gringoire was touched to the heart by the fidelity of his only spectator.†   (source)
  • I am sorry to see, sir, that you have doubts as to the fidelity of Jasper.†   (source)
  • Because such fidelity is false and unnatural, root and branch.†   (source)
  • Their fidelity and sagacity are below par now.†   (source)
  • ] The very circumstances which render matrimonial fidelity more obligatory also render it more easy.†   (source)
  • Oh! spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless fidelity of man!†   (source)
  • That the more I stood in need of such fidelity, the more firmly I might trust in him to the last.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to itself.†   (source)
  • Its deep fidelity and goodness were not to be adorned by me or any man.†   (source)
  • You want no other recommendation than your own acts—your courage, your fidelity.†   (source)
  • She tended him through a series of unheard-of illnesses with a fidelity most admirable.†   (source)
  • Spectre though I be, I am not sent to scare thee or deceive; But in reward of thy fidelity.†   (source)
  • No fidelity, no constant truth and passion, could move her into warmth.†   (source)
  • His homely figure seemed to be lightened up by his fidelity and generosity.†   (source)
  • Ye are too loyal a subject yourself to visit loyalty and fidelity with a heavy judgment.†   (source)
  • Thus in the course of the campaign he handled many hundreds of dollars of the Hebrew brewer's money, administering it with naive and touching fidelity.†   (source)
  • He stood bareheaded, lean and tall, with neither his clear eyes nor his still face, nor the proffered hand expressing anything of the proven quality of fidelity, of achievement, that Helen sensed in him.†   (source)
  • UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY By Booker T. Washington This volume is dedicated to my Wife Margaret James Washington And to my Brother John H. Washington Whose patience, fidelity, and hard work have gone far to make the work at Tuskegee successful.†   (source)
  • Her interpretation of her creed and her religious activity in fidelity to it, her acceptance of mysterious and holy Mormon truths, were all invested in this Bishop.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly that love, that devotion, which throughout his courtship she had looked upon as the slavish fidelity of a dog, seemed to vanish completely.†   (source)
  • Boys in uniform, carrying guns, marched with their eyes ahead of them, marched, their arms stiff, and on their faces an expression like the letters of a legend written round the base of a statue praising duty, gratitude, fidelity, love of England.†   (source)
  • If Glenn's spirit had lifted him to endurance of war for the sake of others, how then could it fail him in a precious duty of fidelity to himself?†   (source)
  • This fidelity to her swelled her heart, while the need of it presaged that fearful something which, since Stewart's passionate appeal to her, haunted her as inevitable.†   (source)
  • With touching fidelity they seized every chance of meeting Mrs. Archer and Janey in the course of their continental travels, and displayed a supernatural acuteness in finding out when they were to pass through London on their way to or from the States.†   (source)
  • The dislike, indeed, still subsisted; but it was penetrated here and there by the perception of mitigating qualities in him: of a certain gross kindliness, a rather helpless fidelity of sentiment, which seemed to be struggling through the hard surface of his material ambitions.†   (source)
  • I daresay she had practice in that sort of scene—people must have been always complimenting her on her husband's fidelity and adoration.†   (source)
  • The life of Swann's love, the fidelity of his jealousy, were formed out of death, of infidelity, of innumerable desires, innumerable doubts, all of which had Odette for their object.†   (source)
  • In the presence of others she expressed admiration for his exalted gifts, as she handed the photograph around and dwelt upon the fidelity of the likeness.†   (source)
  • Albert was the Captain's hammock-boy, a sort of sea-valet in whose discretion and fidelity his master had much confidence.†   (source)
  • Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening on the very morning of the wedding.†   (source)
  • Away from the house the road wound through the meads, and along these she followed Clare without any attempt to come up with him or to attract him, but with dumb and vacant fidelity.†   (source)
  • One of these was fidelity.†   (source)
  • The power of the man stunned Duane; the strange fidelity given him stunned Duane; the intricate inside working of his great system was equally stunning.†   (source)
  • He now returned with feverish desperation to his study for the priesthood—in the recognition that the single-mindedness of his aims, and his fidelity to the cause, had been more than questionable of late.†   (source)
  • In the rude ancient times it was deemed a wise precaution to have both hands of both drinkers employed, lest while the pledger pledged his love and fidelity to the pledgee, the pledgee take that opportunity to slip a dirk into him!†   (source)
  • What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.†   (source)
  • His function was a responsible one, at once onerous & thankless, and his fidelity in it the greater because of his strong patriotic impulse.†   (source)
  • I did not wish to learn or do anything else there, but simply to exist and be guided entirely by the mind of Bergotte, and, if I had been told then that the metaphysicians whom I was actually to follow there resembled him in nothing, I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.†   (source)
  • When he found that Tess came of that exhausted ancient line, and was not of the new tribes from below, as he had fondly dreamed, why had he not stoically abandoned her in fidelity to his principles?†   (source)
  • Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides.†   (source)
  • She would show, in fact, that in an unfaithful world one Catholic woman had succeeded in retaining the fidelity of her husband.†   (source)
  • Of the faithful servant, uncomprehending as the rest of them, it is the fidelity alone that comes into play; a fidelity and a belief in his lord so strong that even amazement is subdued to a sort of saddened acceptance of a mysterious failure.†   (source)
  • It was because of it that Columbia was the gem of the ocean; and all her future triumphs, her power and good repute among the nations, depended upon the zeal and fidelity with which each citizen held up the hands of those who were toiling to maintain it.†   (source)
  • At a pause in the service, while they were kneeling together, she unconsciously inclined herself towards him, so that her shoulder touched his arm; she had been frightened by a passing thought, and the movement had been automatic, to assure herself that he was really there, and to fortify her belief that his fidelity would be proof against all things.†   (source)
  • If ever Leonora so much as mentioned in a letter that they had had a woman staying with them—or, if she so much as mentioned a woman's name in a letter to me—off would go a desperate cable in cipher to that poor wretch at Branshaw, commanding him on pain of an instant and horrible disclosure to come over and assure her of his fidelity.†   (source)
  • …make a conquest of him and shew him no special attention, knowing very well that they have no real need of him, that he will cease to be invited to the house sooner than they will be dismissed from it; who, on the other hand, cling with most fidelity to those masters and mistresses who have tested and proved their real capacity, and do not look for that superficial responsiveness, that slavish affability, which may impress a stranger favourably, but often conceals an utter barrenness…†   (source)
  • Why I longed to go grubbing into the deplorable details of an occurrence which, after all, concerned me no more than as a member of an obscure body of men held together by a community of inglorious toil and by fidelity to a certain standard of conduct, I can't explain.†   (source)
  • I think it is the lonely, without a fireside or an affection they may call their own, those who return not to a dwelling but to the land itself, to meet its disembodied, eternal, and unchangeable spirit—it is those who understand best its severity, its saving power, the grace of its secular right to our fidelity, to our obedience.†   (source)
  • There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.†   (source)
  • She was attended, sir,' said brother Charles, 'in these reverses, by one faithful creature, who had been, in old times, a poor kitchen wench in the family, who was then their solitary servant, but who might have been, for the truth and fidelity of her heart—who might have been—ah! the wife of Tim Linkinwater himself, sir!'†   (source)
  • He saw only the father in his sufferings, and resolved at once to give a pledge of fidelity to its interests, and to be faithful to his word.†   (source)
  • A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about among these the republican affiliations.†   (source)
  • Did she mean to break down at the very beginning of their ordeal, after all the promises of fidelity she had both given and extracted?†   (source)
  • No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.†   (source)
  • He had emerged from slavery,—not the worst slavery in the world, not a slavery that made all life unbearable, rather a slavery that had here and there something of kindliness, fidelity, and happiness,—but withal slavery, which, so far as human aspiration and desert were concerned, classed the black man and the ox together.†   (source)
  • Of course, he smiled darkly at their delusion, but passed it by with the sad superiority of one who knew that his fidelity like his love was unalterable.†   (source)
  • The stars, to be sure, coldly watched it when the nights and the smoke were clear enough; and all bad weather stood by it with a rare fidelity.†   (source)
  • The incorruptible fidelity, piety and honesty, of Uncle Tom, had more than one development, to her personal knowledge.†   (source)
  • They wonderfully depicted the models which they had before their eyes, but they rarely imagined anything beyond them: they followed nature with fidelity: whilst Raphael sought for something better than nature.†   (source)
  • Without disputing a truth so momentous, we must be allowed to consider this version of Mr. Dimmesdale's story as only an instance of that stubborn fidelity with which a man's friends—and especially a clergyman's—will sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the mid-day sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust.†   (source)
  • From that hapless moment the graces, the attachment, the fidelity of the young Indian, had lost their power to please.†   (source)
  • He had served with fidelity and courage, and having been, according to the custom of the provinces, intrusted with commands much superior to those to which he was entitled by rank, with reputation also.†   (source)
  • Thou hast clung to thy Way, rendering fidelity when it was hard to give, in that Black Year of which I now remember other tales.†   (source)
  • That this superb woman, in whom he had seen all human grace and household force, should turn from him and all the brightness that he offered her—him and his future and his fortune and his fidelity—to muffle herself in ascetic rags and entomb herself in a cell was a confounding combination of the inexorable and the grotesque.†   (source)
  • Has he light? he must bear witness to the light, and always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul.†   (source)
  • Honor between man and man; fidelity between man and woman; and no can't about this religion or that religion, but an honest belief that things are making for good on the whole.†   (source)
  • Not unfrequently when all the other faculties are numb and failing memory does its offices with the greatest fidelity.†   (source)
  • There are men whose hearts insist upon a dogged fidelity to some image or cause thrown by chance into their keeping, long after their judgment has pronounced it no rarity—even the reverse, indeed, and without them the band of the worthy is incomplete.†   (source)
  • It is more than probable that she privately and unconsciously respected him a little for this grim fidelity, which had been shown in his tone even more than in his words.†   (source)
  • She unmistakably prided herself on her courage, and wished Anna to appreciate the fidelity of her friendship.†   (source)
  • Let everyone, let all Petersburg see the children begging in the streets, though their father was an honourable man who served all his life in truth and fidelity, and one may say died in the service.†   (source)
  • But you need him so as to contemplate continually your heroic fidelity and to reproach him for infidelity.†   (source)
  • "This paper, my friend," said Faria, "I may now avow to you, since I have the proof of your fidelity—this paper is my treasure, of which, from this day forth, one-half belongs to you."†   (source)
  • Fidelity in love for fidelity's sake had less attraction for her than for most women: fidelity because of love's grip had much.†   (source)
  • Then, with fidelity, though with some prolixity, the law-stationer repeats Jo's statement made to the assembled guests at his house.†   (source)
  • The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.†   (source)
  • Miss Pross's fidelity of belief in Solomon (deducting a mere trifle for this slight mistake) was quite a serious matter with Mr. Lorry, and had its weight in his good opinion of her.†   (source)
  • After that they took his right hand, placed it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order.†   (source)
  • The latter form of composition is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely to the possible, but to the probable and ordinary course of man's experience.†   (source)
  • Remember, if you talk, if you babble, if you get drunk, you risk your master's head, who has so much confidence in your fidelity, and who answers for you.†   (source)
  • That's how I can do it," said the sergeant, with an intonation of such exquisite fidelity to nature that it was evidently not all acted now.†   (source)
  • On this first occasion of his producing it, I recalled how he had made me swear fidelity in the churchyard long ago, and how he had described himself last night as always swearing to his resolutions in his solitude.†   (source)
  • He assured John Chivery when he had returned his handkerchief to his pocket, that he did all honour to his disinterestedness and to the fidelity of his remembrance of Miss Dorrit.†   (source)
  • A place was reserved for three or four of the principal chiefs, and a few of the oldest of the women, as withered, as age, exposure, hardships, and lives of savage passions could make them, thrust themselves into the foremost circle, with a temerity, to which they were impelled by their insatiable desire for cruelty, and which nothing, but their years and their long tried fidelity to the nation, would have excused.†   (source)
  • There is an old charter which puts the matter naively: apropos of fidelity: ~Civibus fidelitas in reges, quoe tamen aliquoties seditionibus interrypta, multa peperit privileyia~.†   (source)
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