Generosity

Examples

• For the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I am deeply sensible of your generosity, and I shall treasure its remembrance to my dying hour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Generosity be hanged! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I shall counsel her to tell her future husband the whole story and to trust to his generosity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But he said that he felt the danger which lay for him in your generosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was perfectly inaccessible, even to such generosity as this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I could not be expected to give her up, he said, after a moment's hesitation: it was not a case for any pretence of generosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Which would turn out to have the more foresight in it--her rationality or Caleb's ardent generosity? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Community of study and amusement developed the best parts of his character, his steady perseverance, generosity, and well-governed firmness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Before quite leaving her he threw upon her face a wistful glance, as if he had misgivings on the generosity of forsaking her thus. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Ah, your generosity may naturally make you say that. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He has made up his mind to leave off wandering at once, and to give up his dependence on your generosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not in generosity? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am strong, strongly, disinclined to avail myself of your generosity, though my helplessness yields. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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