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No, Scarlett, the idea of assistance from abroad is just a newspaper invention to keep up the morale of the South.

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 Meanings and Examples of MORALE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
morale
 n.  confidence; mood or spirit of a group that makes the members wants the group to succeed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No, Scarlett, the idea of assistance from abroad is just a newspaper invention to keep up the morale of the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  But the South had needed the cheering news from Chickamauga to strengthen its morale through the winter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  For as the censors became the arbiters of morals in Rome, it was very much owing to them that the progress of the Romans towards corruption was retarded.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIX.
4  Back of this more formal religion, the Church often stands as a real conserver of morals, a strengthener of family life, and the final authority on what is Good and Right.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
5  The second fact noted, namely, that the Negro church antedates the Negro home, leads to an explanation of much that is paradoxical in this communistic institution and in the morals of its members.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
6  I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
7  The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
8  The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
9  It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
10  It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  There can be no question that as a matter of morals it's a positive crime to give this chap a farthing.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  In fact the morals of the affair weighed lightly upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Had he been a man of pure morals himself, he might have been thought interested in protecting the innocence of my aunt; but those who knew him will not suspect him of any such virtue.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  But we don't quite fancy, when women and ministers come out broad and square, and go beyond us in matters of either modesty or morals, that's a fact.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  Candide, Martin, and Pangloss sometimes disputed about morals and metaphysics.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXX
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
16  It is an act of moral cowardice for a society to neglect its poor.
17  The article claims that an increase in crime indicates a decline in moral standards.
18  The Republicans took the moral high ground with the message that they were best equipped to manage the authority.
19  It has become fashionable to do down traditional moral values.
20  The book places a high moral value on marriage and the family unit.
21  The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
22  Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admira-tion, respect, moral support, and help.
23  He brandished the moral force of government as his weapon.
24  The moral offen - sive remarks in the book had to be expurgated before it could be printed.
25  British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
26  It was so clearly a moral fable.
27  I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client.
28  Ethics deals with moral conduct.
29  His moral conduct is amply certificated.
30  The moral of this story is that crime does not pay.