Humane

Examples

• There never was a more delicate man than Dodson, ma'am, or a more humane man than Fogg. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It's humane too, gen'l'men, acause, even if they've stuck in the chimbley, roasting their feet makes 'em struggle to hextricate theirselves. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The swain replied: 'It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Germans regarded him and his humane doctrine as their sheet-anchor of safety. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Only humane laws can be successfully enforced; and they are the only ones really worth enforcing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A very humane jurist once said, The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Of course, in a community so organized, what can a man of honorable and humane feelings do, but shut his eyes all he can, and harden his heart? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It's always best to do the humane thing, sir; that's been _my_ experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Besides that, the change will put the humane societies out of business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I have always cultivated a feeling of humane indulgence for foreigners. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I didn't know you were here, said Fairway, with a humane look across towards that quarter. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• With this there had been a real increase of humane feeling. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You're a nice one,' added Sikes, as he surveyed her with a contemptuous air, 'to take up the humane and gen--teel side! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Stubbs is the soul of punctuality, honesty, and efficiency,--a thorough business hand, and as humane as the general run. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Those humane considerations do you a world of credit, but they happen in this instance to be humane considerations clean thrown away. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Well, said the other, there are also many considerate and humane men among planters. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You are a humane woman, Mrs. Mann. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A glass of water,' said the humane Mr. Pickwick, summoning the landlady. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The humane and the just cannot but wish general success to the proposition. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Editor: Rosalie