Candour

Examples

• She had the perfect candour of creation, something translucent and simple, like a radiant, shining flower that moment unfolded in primal blessedness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Surely it would be a cruel candour to tell Laura this, without a pressing and a positive necessity for it? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I may venture to say that HIS observations have stretched much further than your candour. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Hereafter I will make amends for delay by candour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Their gay bright candour moved her so much as they came near, that she was almost in tears. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And it was acting upon this hint that the worthy apothecary spoke with so much candour to Mrs. Bute Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Gerty had tried to veil her failure in tender ambiguities; but Carry, always the soul of candour, put the case squarely to her friend. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Candour I conceive to be the best cure for jealousy; so do pray come to us this evening and show Worcester my two notes. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You deserved candour, and from me always had it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I wish you could have heard how she talked of itwith what candour and generosity. Jane Austen. Emma.
• May met the question with her unshaken candour. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It is my rule never to make unnecessary mysteries, and never to set people suspecting me for want of a little seasonable candour on my part. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So, in a word, Briggs told all her history, and Becky gave a narrative of her own life, with her usual artlessness and candour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Well, sir, replied Mr. Guppy with candour, my wish is to BE magnanimous. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Your purity, your candour, your goodness--yes, thank you, we've had some. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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