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"Ah, Probity Probes," signed Travers theatrically, "so crude-but so effective!"† (source)
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It was my first time in Amsterdam; I'd seen almost nothing of the city and yet the room itself, in its bleak, drafty, sunscrubbed beauty, gave a keen sense of Northern Europe, a model of the Netherlands in miniature: whitewash and Protestant probity, co-mingled with deep-dyed luxury brought in merchant ships from the East.† (source)
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She earned tiny sums, but worked with as much probity as if she were being paid thousands.† (source)
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Unless you doubt my probity?† (source)
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Adams believed his strongest attributes were, as he said, "candor, probity, and decision," but these he failed to find in the face that looked back from the finished canvas, and he expressed disappointment.† (source)
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VINEY: Oh, we glad to have you back too, probity.† (source)
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They cast aspersions upon the probity of those who authorized incarnation.† (source)
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I had admired his journals inordinately, and had considered Gide's probity and relentless self-dissection to be part of one of the truly triumphant feats of the civilized twentieth-century mind.† (source)
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She undersold him so relentlessly and delivered, with secret groans, such an excellent quality of lumber to prove her probity that he was soon bankrupt.† (source)
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Golz, he thought in a mixture of horror and exultation as a man might feel hearing that a business enemy had been killed in a particularly nasty motor accident or that some one you hated but whose probity you had never doubted had been guilty of defalcation.† (source)
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In the early morning the sun threw my shadow westward as I hurried down the white chasms of lower New York to the Probity Trust.† (source)
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Why, I believe Sir Ector would have been gladder to get a by-our-lady tilting blue for your tutor, that swings himself along on his knuckles like an anthropoid ape, rather than a magician of known probity and international reputation with first-class honours from every European university.† (source)
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In a few years his unprincipled wife warped the probity of a lifetime.† (source)
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The idea of absolute financial probity as the first law of a gentleman's code was too deeply ingrained in him for sentimental considerations to weaken it.† (source)
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Father Madeleine required of the men good will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity.† (source)
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Look where your friend Robert Chiltern has got to by probity, hard work, and a sensible marriage with a good woman.† (source)
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