| The Lacedaemonians are exceedingly virtuous among themselves, and according to their national standard of morality. |
| These are great, clumping, virtuous blocks of stiff leather with bulbous reinforced toecaps, designed never to wear out. |
| There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female. |
| But, nota bene, his blessings flow only in the direction of those who are already virtuous. |
| The figure of the cowboy became the West's protagonist, a self-reliant individualist with a virtuous sense of fair play. |
| Tom Jones probably prompted Richardson to offer the virtuous hero, Grandison, as a response to Fielding's scapegrace. |
