1 For which reason we should on such occasions choose for our tools those who have had experience in similar affairs, and trust no others though reputed of the truest courage.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 2 Commencing then with the first of the above-named characteristics, I say that it would be well to be reputed liberal.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XVI — CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS 3 The present King of Spain would not have undertaken or conquered in so many enterprises if he had been reputed liberal.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XVI — CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS 4 At the moment when the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale thus communed with himself, and struck his forehead with his hand, old Mistress Hibbins, the reputed witch-lady, is said to have been passing by.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE 5 Before this boy, who was reputed to be a great scholar, and was very good-looking, and at least half-a-dozen years my senior, I was carried as before a magistrate.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE 6 Certainly, as he had himself owned, the reputed son of Major Cavalcanti was a wilful fellow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 64. The Beggar. 7 A large majority of the "superior" white men prominent in the affair are the reputed fathers of mulatto children.
8 Presently the massive door of the cell opened to admit a tchinovnik named Samosvitov, a robust, sensual individual who was reputed by his comrades to be something of a rake.
9 A sergeant of the English Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 10 Jupiter,' she cries, 'for thou art reputed lawgiver of hospitality, grant that this be a joyful day to the Tyrians and the voyagers from Troy, a day to live in our children's memory.
11 Oh, Scarlett, he has the most terrible reputation.
12 Lucky for Ashley that he had an unassailable reputation for courage, or else there'd be trouble.
13 If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.
14 If you were too nice to young husbands, their wives said you were fast and you got a bad reputation and never caught any beaux of your own.
15 There, I'll be saying no more tonight, for I'm going to see this fine Captain Butler who makes so light of me daughter's reputation.