Loyalty

Examples

• She was wondering whether an explanation of any kind would be consistent with her loyalty to Frederick. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When a government routine conflicts with the nation's purposes--the statesman actually makes a virtue of his loyalty to the routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Intense loyalty to the queen mother is apparent in all their activities and arrangements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The (Greek) of the Spartans attracted them, that is to say, not the goodness of their laws, but the spirit of order and loyalty which prevailed. Plato. The Republic.
• Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He was serving in a war and he gave absolute loyalty and as complete a performance as he could give while he was serving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It was the Manchus who imposed the pigtail as a mark of political loyalty upon the Chinese population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We cling to constitutions out of loyalty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Will was ready to adore her pity and loyalty, if she would associate himself with her in manifesting them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It would not let that passion and loyalty be frittered away to drift like scum through the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I appreciate your aid and your loyalty, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I suppose your loyalty to John Jarndyce will allow that? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am glad that you are here, John Carter, for I know your loyalty to my princess and two of us working together should be able to accomplish much. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Mr. Clayton, she said quietly, extending her hand, first let me thank you for your chivalrous loyalty to my dear father. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The loyalties and allegiances to-day are at best provisional loyalties and allegiances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But men's loyalties, the sides they take in political things, are not innate, they are educational results. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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